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Bill	Criminal history information.	Existing law requires a local criminal justice agency to record and store specified arrest and identification data, also known as local summary criminal history information, regarding persons arrested by the agency. Existing law requires the agency to furnish that information to, among other entities, a public defender or attorney of record when representing a person in a criminal case, or a parole, mandatory supervision, or postrelease community supervision revocation or revocation extension hearing, and when authorized access by statutory or decisional law. Existing law makes a person, authorized to receive this information and who knowingly furnishes this information to a person not authorized to receive the information, guilty of a misdemeanor.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 709	California AB 709 (20232024)	bill	Criminal history information	enacted	McKinnor	9	30	6	2023-02-13	2023-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/8052fb57-a287-4bb8-ab17-24a6a58faeb3	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB709	4854873878b0352ba65b60f2767457b6e6e57a5f65938c3eb747bebf7843a4d3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 709 (20232024) — Criminal history information.

Existing law requires a local criminal justice agency to record and store specified arrest and identification data, also known as local summary criminal history information, regarding persons arrested by the agency. Existing law requires the agency to furnish that information to, among other entities, a public defender or attorney of record when representing a person in a criminal case, or a parole, mandatory supervision, or postrelease community supervision revocation or revocation extension hearing, and when authorized access by statutory or decisional law. Existing law makes a person, authorized to receive this information and who knowingly furnishes this information to a person not authorized to receive the information, guilty of a misdemeanor.

Version chain

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

1. 02/13/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/15/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/31/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/15/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/06/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/06/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/08/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB709 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/18/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 709 McKinnor Consent Calendar Second Day — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 709 McKinnor Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB709 McKinnor et al. By Skinner — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• McKinnor — primary (person)
• Essayli — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-13 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2023-02-14 From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
• 2023-02-23 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2023-03-16 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2023-03-22 In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2023-04-12 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 11). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-13 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-04-20 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1273.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-04-20 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2023-05-03 Referred to Com. on PUB S. referral-committee
• 2023-05-15 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
• 2023-05-31 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
• 2023-06-14 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 13). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-06-15 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-07-06 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-07-19 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2023-08-28 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2023-08-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-06 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2585.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-11 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 13 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2023-09-12 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 3228.)
• 2023-09-12 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2023-09-12 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 3322.)
• 2023-09-13 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (September 13). committee-passage
• 2023-09-13 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3467.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2023-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 453, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8052fb57-a287-4bb8-ab17-24a6a58faeb3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).