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Bill	Peace officers: video and audio recordings: disclosure.	Existing law, the California Public Records Act, requires that public records, as defined, be available to the public for inspection and made promptly available to any person. Existing law makes records of investigations conducted by any state or local police agency exempt from these requirements. Existing law requires specified information regarding the investigation of crimes to be disclosed to the public unless disclosure would endanger the safety of a person involved in an investigation or would endanger the successful completion of the investigation.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 748	California AB 748 (20172018)	bill	Peace officers: video and audio recordings: disclosure.	enacted	Ting	10	39	4	2017-02-15	2018-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/6336b457-f6e3-4049-ae15-ecc0a2ee9b2c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB748	52c59996002f347cd7f75f37f3522c57949151341dba66f72d23bd7299662a52	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 748 (20172018) — Peace officers: video and audio recordings: disclosure.

Existing law, the California Public Records Act, requires that public records, as defined, be available to the public for inspection and made promptly available to any person. Existing law makes records of investigations conducted by any state or local police agency exempt from these requirements. Existing law requires specified information regarding the investigation of crimes to be disclosed to the public unless disclosure would endanger the safety of a person involved in an investigation or would endanger the successful completion of the investigation.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. 02/15/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/14/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/03/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/05/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/19/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/17/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/23/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/30/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB748 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/05/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 748 TING Consent Calendar Second Day — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Rules] — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 748 TING Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 41–32 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ting — primary (person)
• Carrillo — coauthor (person)
• Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2017-02-15 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2017-02-16 From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
• 2017-03-02 Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2017-03-21 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2017-03-28 In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2017-04-04 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 4). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-04-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-05-03 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 3). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-05-04 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1488.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-11 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-05-24 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2017-07-05 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2017-07-18 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on RLS. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (July 11). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-07-19 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2017-08-23 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2018-05-17 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2018-06-14 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-07-02 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (June 26). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-07-03 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2018-08-06 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2018-08-17 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-08-17 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-23 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2018-08-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 24. Noes 13. Page 5903.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-28 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2018-08-29 Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2018-08-29 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 6786.)
• 2018-08-30 Action rescinded whereby the bill was re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2018-08-30 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2018-08-30 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 7048.)
• 2018-08-31 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 31). committee-passage
• 2018-08-31 Assembly Rule 63 suspended.
• 2018-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 41. Noes 32.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-07 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
• 2018-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 960, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6336b457-f6e3-4049-ae15-ecc0a2ee9b2c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).