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Bill	Crimes: theft: retail theft restraining orders.	Existing law prohibits the theft of merchandise from a retail establishment. Existing law authorizes a court, upon sentencing a person for specified offenses, including stalking and elder abuse, to issue a criminal protective order prohibiting the person from contacting any victim of their offense.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 3209	California AB 3209 (20232024)	bill	Crimes retail theft restraining orders theft	enacted	Berman	9	30	8	2024-02-16	2024-08-16	openstates	ocd-bill/0d9be4e0-0bf5-4d8e-9723-f63149e0fcec	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3209	05494c320815ee7a25b23c0b52fb3327c51d7ffc0fab69ab8cc80bcceeb3da48	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 3209 (20232024) — Crimes: theft: retail theft restraining orders.

Existing law prohibits the theft of merchandise from a retail establishment. Existing law authorizes a court, upon sentencing a person for specified offenses, including stalking and elder abuse, to issue a criminal protective order prohibiting the person from contacting any victim of their offense.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/01/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/16/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/04/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/20/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/29/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/16/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB3209 (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/12/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 3209 Berman Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 69–5 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 2–3 (fail) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 3209 Berman Assembly Third Reading — 68–1 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB3209 Berman et al. By Wiener — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 5–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Berman — primary (person)
• Gipson — coauthor (person)
• Robert Rivas — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2024-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
• 2024-03-11 Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. referral-committee
• 2024-04-01 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-04-01 Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. referral-committee
• 2024-04-01 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. referral-committee
• 2024-04-10 Coauthors revised.
• 2024-04-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-04-17 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2024-05-16 Assembly Rule 63 suspended.
• 2024-05-16 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (May 16). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2024-05-16 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 1. Page 5507.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-05-22 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2024-05-29 Referred to Com. on PUB S. referral-committee
• 2024-06-04 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on PUB S. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-06-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-06-17 Motion to place on APPR. suspense file failed
• 2024-06-17 (Ayes 2. Noes 3.) (June 17)
• 2024-06-19 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 17). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2024-06-20 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-06-29 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-07-01 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5010.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-08 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 10 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2024-08-12 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 69. Noes 5. Page 6271.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-08-12 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2024-08-16 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-08-16 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 169, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0d9be4e0-0bf5-4d8e-9723-f63149e0fcec. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).