republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/sb-94.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Safety: omnibus."
description: "(1) 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 generally makes records of investigations conducted by any state or local police agency exempt from these requirements, except that a video or audio recording that relates to a critical incident, as defined, may only be withheld temporarily under specified circumstances. If disclosure of a recording would violate the reasonable expectation of privacy of a subject of the recording that cannot be adequately protected through redaction, existing law requires the recording to be disclosed, upon request, to the subject of the recording whose privacy is to be protected. If disclosure to the person whose privacy is to be protected would substantially interfere with a criminal or administrative investigation, existing law requires the agency to provide the requester with the specific basis for making that determination. Under these circumstances, existing law purports to require the agency to provide the video or audio recording and allows the agency to withhold the recording for 45 days, subject to extensions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "SB 94"
citation: "California SB 94 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Public Safety: omnibus."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-10"
last_action: "2019-06-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/78c4aaab-a058-42e8-a62f-51eccf0a7ec3"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB94"
source_hash: "3fd04f5f3682baabb937ad8944a277d5ccb82556ab0d4436b93c41212e83fa5b"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California SB 94 (20192020) — Public Safety: omnibus.

(1) 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 generally makes records of investigations conducted by any state or local police agency exempt from these requirements, except that a video or audio recording that relates to a critical incident, as defined, may only be withheld temporarily under specified circumstances. If disclosure of a recording would violate the reasonable expectation of privacy of a subject of the recording that cannot be adequately protected through redaction, existing law requires the recording to be disclosed, upon request, to the subject of the recording whose privacy is to be protected. If disclosure to the person whose privacy is to be protected would substantially interfere with a criminal or administrative investigation, existing law requires the agency to provide the requester with the specific basis for making that determination. Under these circumstances, existing law purports to require the agency to provide the video or audio recording and allows the agency to withhold the recording for 45 days, subject to extensions.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/10/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB94&version=20190SB9499INT)
2. **06/11/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB94&version=20190SB9498AMD)
3. **06/13/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB94&version=20190SB9497AMD)
4. **06/27/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB94&version=20190SB9495CHP)
5. **SB94** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB94)
6. **06/19/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB94&version=20190SB9496ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading SB94 B. & F.R. — **27–9** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB94 B. & F.R. (Mitchell) Concurrence — **34–3** (pass) · upper
- SB 94 B. & F. R. Senate Third Reading By TING — **59–17** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-10** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-01-11** From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 10.
- **2019-01-24** Referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-08** Withdrawn from committee. (Ayes 28. Noes 10. Page 582.)
- **2019-04-08** Ordered to second reading.
- **2019-04-09** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-04-11** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 27. Noes 9. Page 669.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-04-11** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2019-05-02** Referred to Com. on BUDGET. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-11** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-13** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-17** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2019-06-17** Ordered to third reading.
- **2019-06-17** Assembly Rule 63 and 96 suspended. (Ayes 59. Noes 12. Page 2297.)
- **2019-06-17** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 59. Noes 17. Page 2308.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-06-17** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2019-06-17** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 34. Noes 3. Page 1601.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-25** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 10 a.m.
- **2019-06-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 25, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/78c4aaab-a058-42e8-a62f-51eccf0a7ec3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).