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Bill	Diversion for repeat retail theft crimes.	(1) Existing law requires a peace officer to release a person who has been arrested for a misdemeanor after securing that person's promise to appear, as specified, unless certain conditions are met for nonrelease, including, among others, there is reason to believe that the person would not appear as required or there was a reasonable likelihood that the offense or offenses for which the person was arrested would continue or resume.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 2294	California AB 2294 (20212022)	bill	Diversion for repeat retail theft crimes.	enacted	Jones-Sawyer	6	24	8	2022-02-16	2022-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/67b9c6c3-d831-4399-a06f-a25d757b543f	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2294	d5e0b21b6587c96c7a3df5137adc4eccc5c317b894e351facee906941982eba7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2294 (20212022) — Diversion for repeat retail theft crimes.

(1) Existing law requires a peace officer to release a person who has been arrested for a misdemeanor after securing that person's promise to appear, as specified, unless certain conditions are met for nonrelease, including, among others, there is reason to believe that the person would not appear as required or there was a reasonable likelihood that the offense or offenses for which the person was arrested would continue or resume.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/18/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/17/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/30/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB2294 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/02/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2294 Jones-Sawyer By Caballero Urgency Clause — 30–8 (pass) · upper
• AB 2294 Jones-Sawyer Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 59–13 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 12–3 (pass) · lower
• AB 2294 Jones-Sawyer Third Reading Urgency — 54–15 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 6–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jones-Sawyer — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2022-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2022-03-03 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. 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
• 2022-04-19 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2022-04-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 19). 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: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 3.) (May 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-05-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-26 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 54. Noes 15.). 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 Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2022-06-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-08-02 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2022-08-11 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (August 11). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-17 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-30 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 8.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-30 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2022-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 59. Noes 13.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2022-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 856, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/67b9c6c3-d831-4399-a06f-a25d757b543f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).