Menace to public health: closure by law enforcement.
Existing law authorizes specified law enforcement and public safety officers and professionals to close an area where a menace to the public health or safety is created by a calamity, including flood, storm, fire, earthquake, explosion, accident, or other disaster, and makes it a misdemeanor for a person to enter an area closed by law enforcement for this purpose. Existing law specifies that these provisions do not prevent a duly authorized representative of a news service, newspaper, or radio or television station or network from entering the areas closed.
California AB 750 (20232024) — Menace to public health: closure by law enforcement.
Existing law authorizes specified law enforcement and public safety officers and professionals to close an area where a menace to the public health or safety is created by a calamity, including flood, storm, fire, earthquake, explosion, accident, or other disaster, and makes it a misdemeanor for a person to enter an area closed by law enforcement for this purpose. Existing law specifies that these provisions do not prevent a duly authorized representative of a news service, newspaper, or radio or television station or network from entering the areas closed.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 8–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 5–0 (pass) · upper
AB 750 Rodriguez Consent Calendar Second Day — 76–0 (pass) · lower
Consent Calendar — 35–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
Rodriguez — primary (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.
2023-03-16 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
2023-03-16 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
2023-03-20 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
2023-04-06 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
2023-04-07 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
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
2023-06-06 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 6). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2023-06-07 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
2023-06-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 1516.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
2023-06-12 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
2023-06-23 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
2023-06-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2023-06-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 17, Statutes of 2023. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e993757e-1277-48ff-8d2c-28603b014840. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).