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Bill	California Public Records Act: state of emergency.	The California Public Records Act requires state and local agencies to make their records available for public inspection, except as specified. Existing law requires each agency, within 10 days of a request for a copy of records, to determine whether the request seeks copies of disclosable public records in possession of the agency and to promptly notify the person of the determination and the reasons therefor. Existing law authorizes that time limit to be extended by no more than 14 days under unusual circumstances, and defines "unusual circumstances" to include certain circumstances.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 1034	California SB 1034 (20232024)	bill	California Public Records Act state of emergency	enacted	Seyarto	6	23	6	2024-02-06	2024-07-18	openstates	ocd-bill/b508616d-34bd-4cee-9c21-06ae48566a72	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1034	5121be28cea6a8c96149cdff8cb39b9c6c36e7ea0edec33c87374e189b19ff87	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 1034 (20232024) — California Public Records Act: state of emergency.

The California Public Records Act requires state and local agencies to make their records available for public inspection, except as specified. Existing law requires each agency, within 10 days of a request for a copy of records, to determine whether the request seeks copies of disclosable public records in possession of the agency and to promptly notify the person of the determination and the reasons therefor. Existing law authorizes that time limit to be extended by no more than 14 days under unusual circumstances, and defines "unusual circumstances" to include certain circumstances.

Version chain

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

1. 02/06/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/04/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/05/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/18/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. SB1034 (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/08/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• SB 1034 Seyarto Consent Calendar Second Day — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent SB1034 Seyarto et al. — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Consent Calendar 2nd SB1034 Seyarto et al. — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 14–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Seyarto — primary (person)
• Chen — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-06 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2024-02-07 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 8.
• 2024-02-14 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2024-03-20 Set for hearing April 2.
• 2024-04-03 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 3447.) (April 2). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-04 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-04-12 Set for hearing April 22.
• 2024-04-22 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2024-04-23 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-04-25 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 3772.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-04-25 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2024-05-06 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2024-06-04 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 4). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-06-05 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-06-19 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-06-20 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-06-26 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 6037.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-06-27 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2024-07-01 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2024-07-03 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4932.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-07-16 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
• 2024-07-18 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-07-18 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 161, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b508616d-34bd-4cee-9c21-06ae48566a72. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).