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Bill	Public Safety.	Existing law authorizes a county to establish a pretrial diversion program for defendants who have been charged with a misdemeanor offense and authorizes other diversion programs, including for defendants with cognitive developmental disabilities, defendants in nonviolent drug cases, and traffic violations.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 3234	California AB 3234 (20192020)	bill	Public Safety.	enacted	Ting	9	36	6	2020-02-21	2020-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/dbce543d-ebe0-49e4-9900-9152f9db8d91	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB3234	081f9f965b76b394f93f0fafae65fdc319e20b378295dd9c22f1eaad3955ec74	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 3234 (20192020) — Public Safety.

Existing law authorizes a county to establish a pretrial diversion program for defendants who have been charged with a misdemeanor offense and authorizes other diversion programs, including for defendants with cognitive developmental disabilities, defendants in nonviolent drug cases, and traffic violations.

Version chain

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

1. 02/21/20 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/04/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/18/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/03/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/11/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/24/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/30/20 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB3234 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/04/20 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended. — 5–3 (pass) · lower
• AB 3234 TING Assembly Third Reading — 43–26 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 3234 GLORIA Remove from Inactive File By TING Amendment Set #1 — 40–18 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB3234 Ting By Mitchell — 27–10 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ting — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-02-21 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2020-02-22 From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
• 2020-02-24 Read first time. reading-1
• 2020-04-24 Referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2020-05-04 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2020-05-05 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2020-05-14 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (May 12). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2020-05-18 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-05-19 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2020-06-02 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (June 2). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2020-06-03 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-06-08 From Consent Calendar.
• 2020-06-08 Ordered to inactive file at the request of Assembly Member Gloria.
• 2020-08-03 Assembly Rule 78 suspended. (Ayes 56. Noes 16. Page 5059.)
• 2020-08-03 From inactive file.
• 2020-08-03 Ordered to third reading.
• 2020-08-03 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 56. Noes 16. Page 5059.)
• 2020-08-03 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Ayes 40. Noes 18. Page 5067.) amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-03 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2020-08-03 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Ayes 48. Noes 25. Page 5069.)
• 2020-08-10 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 3.) (August 5). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2020-08-11 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-12 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-24 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 5165.) amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-24 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 55. Noes 12. Page 5181.)
• 2020-08-24 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 43. Noes 26. Page 5183.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-24 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2020-08-30 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2020-08-30 (Ayes 29. Noes 10.)
• 2020-08-30 Ordered to second reading.
• 2020-08-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 10.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-31 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2020-09-15 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2020-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2020-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 334, Statutes of 2020.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/dbce543d-ebe0-49e4-9900-9152f9db8d91. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).