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Bill	Inspection of public records: use of requester's reproduction equipment.	Existing law, the California Public Records Act, requires public records to be open to inspection at all times during the office hours of the state or local agency that retains those records, and provides that every person has a right to inspect any public record, except as provided. The California Public Records Act requires state and local agencies to make public records available upon receipt of a request for a copy that reasonably describes an identifiable record not otherwise exempt from disclosure, and upon payment of fees to cover costs.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 1819	California AB 1819 (20192020)	bill	Inspection of public records: use of requester's reproduction equipment.	enacted	Committee on Judiciary	7	24	8	2019-03-06	2019-10-09	openstates	ocd-bill/86f68989-7028-4bc6-8355-20c13a69fdc2	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1819	2e9451ae9af0b0ee4a645b46c8a16911c53c22e0705406bc430e6a7ef625c55d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1819 (20192020) — Inspection of public records: use of requester's reproduction equipment.

Existing law, the California Public Records Act, requires public records to be open to inspection at all times during the office hours of the state or local agency that retains those records, and provides that every person has a right to inspect any public record, except as provided. The California Public Records Act requires state and local agencies to make public records available upon receipt of a request for a copy that reasonably describes an identifiable record not otherwise exempt from disclosure, and upon payment of fees to cover costs.

Version chain

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

1. 03/06/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/28/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/11/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/30/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/09/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1819 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/16/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1819 JUD. Assembly Third Reading By STONE — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1819 JUD. (Stone) By Borgeas — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1819 JUD. Concurrence in Senate Amendments By STONE — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 12–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Committee on Judiciary — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-03-06 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-03-07 From printer. May be heard in committee April 6.
• 2019-03-28 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2019-03-28 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-01 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2019-04-10 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 9). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-11 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-04-22 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2019-04-24 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 24). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-04-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-06 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1513.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-06 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-06-12 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2019-07-03 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-12 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-08-30 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 30). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-08-30 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-05 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2585.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-06 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 8 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2019-09-10 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3242.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-23 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-10-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 695, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/86f68989-7028-4bc6-8355-20c13a69fdc2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).