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Bill	Bail bonds.	(1) Existing law, the Bail Fugitive Recovery Persons Act, regulates bail fugitive recovery agents, defined as a person given written authorization by the bail or depositor of bail and contracted to investigate, surveil, locate, and arrest a bail fugitive and any person employed to assist the bail or depositor of bail to investigate, surveil, locate, and arrest a bail fugitive. Existing law prohibits an insurer from executing an undertaking of bail except by and through a person holding a bail license, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 2043	California AB 2043 (20212022)	bill	Bail bonds.	enacted	Jones-Sawyer	8	32	10	2022-02-14	2022-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/cbab5ec5-b3df-423a-8cbb-a1f428032643	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2043	73fddb41ea8e1a29bf4d2715a645799a6a2c780053a225121ed71bfe662b3a2c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2043 (20212022) — Bail bonds.

(1) Existing law, the Bail Fugitive Recovery Persons Act, regulates bail fugitive recovery agents, defined as a person given written authorization by the bail or depositor of bail and contracted to investigate, surveil, locate, and arrest a bail fugitive and any person employed to assist the bail or depositor of bail to investigate, surveil, locate, and arrest a bail fugitive. Existing law prohibits an insurer from executing an undertaking of bail except by and through a person holding a bail license, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/14/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/18/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/19/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/13/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/30/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/29/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2043 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/29/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB2043 Jones-Sawyer et al. By Hertzberg — 30–7 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2043 Jones-Sawyer Assembly Third Reading — 56–8 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Insurance] — 5–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2043 Jones-Sawyer Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 62–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety] — 7–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jones-Sawyer — primary (person)
• Mayes — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-14 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2022-02-15 From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
• 2022-03-31 Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and INS. referral-committee
• 2022-04-18 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-04-18 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 4251.)
• 2022-04-18 Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Page 4251.)
• 2022-04-18 (pending re-refer to Com. on INS.)
• 2022-04-19 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2022-04-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on INS. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (April 19). Re-referred to Com. on INS. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-04-20 Coauthors revised.
• 2022-04-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-05-11 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2022-05-19 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 19). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2022-05-19 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 56. Noes 8.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-27 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2022-06-08 Referred to Coms. on INS. and PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2022-06-13 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on INS. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-06-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-06-29 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 28). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-06-30 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-08-02 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2022-08-11 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (August 11). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-24 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 7. Page 5100.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-24 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2022-08-25 Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended.
• 2022-08-25 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 62. Noes 3.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-31 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2022-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 768, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cbab5ec5-b3df-423a-8cbb-a1f428032643. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).