republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/sb-982.md

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Bill	Crimes: organized theft.	Existing law, until January 1, 2026, makes a person guilty of organized retail theft, punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony, as specified, if the person acts in concert with one or more persons to steal merchandise from one or more merchant's premises or online marketplaces with the intent to sell or return the merchandise for value, acts in concert with 2 or more persons to receive, purchase, or possess merchandise knowing or believing it to have been stolen, acts as an agent of another to steal merchandise from one or more merchant's premises or online marketplaces as part of an organized plan to commit theft, or recruits, coordinates, organizes, supervises, directs, manages, or finances another to undertake acts of theft.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 982	California SB 982 (20232024)	bill	Crimes organized theft	enacted	Wahab	8	31	8	2024-01-29	2024-08-16	openstates	ocd-bill/34d653c0-f5d5-4539-a1dd-509f3481618d	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB982	a1fb385ef0734b999085732a5b55310ed6e55b5573d31333780dbd679f18ea49	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 982 (20232024) — Crimes: organized theft.

Existing law, until January 1, 2026, makes a person guilty of organized retail theft, punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony, as specified, if the person acts in concert with one or more persons to steal merchandise from one or more merchant's premises or online marketplaces with the intent to sell or return the merchandise for value, acts in concert with 2 or more persons to receive, purchase, or possess merchandise knowing or believing it to have been stolen, acts as an agent of another to steal merchandise from one or more merchant's premises or online marketplaces as part of an organized plan to commit theft, or recruits, coordinates, organizes, supervises, directs, manages, or finances another to undertake acts of theft.

Version chain

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

1. 01/29/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/05/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/16/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/20/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/01/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/16/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB982 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/14/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading SB982 Wahab et al. — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB982 Wahab et al. Concurrence — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 9–4 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 982 Wahab Senate Third Reading By Jones-Sawyer — 72–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Wahab — primary (person)
• Atkins — coauthor (person)
• Becker — coauthor (person)
• Blakespear — coauthor (person)
• Bradford — coauthor (person)
• Caballero — coauthor (person)
• Cervantes — coauthor (person)
• Cortese — coauthor (person)
• Dodd — coauthor (person)
• Juan Carrillo — coauthor (person)
• McGuire — coauthor (person)
• Min — coauthor (person)
• Newman — coauthor (person)
• Rubio — coauthor (person)
• Stern — coauthor (person)
• Wilk — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-29 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2024-01-30 From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 29.
• 2024-02-14 Referred to Com. on PUB S. referral-committee
• 2024-02-27 Set for hearing March 19.
• 2024-02-27 March 19 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2024-02-28 Set for hearing March 12.
• 2024-03-05 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB S. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-03-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 3283.) (March 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-03-28 Set for hearing April 8.
• 2024-04-08 April 8 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2024-05-10 Set for hearing May 16.
• 2024-05-16 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3966.) (May 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-05-16 Read second time and amended. Ordered 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. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4133.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-05-23 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2024-06-03 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2024-06-11 Coauthors revised.
• 2024-06-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-06-19 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 4.) (June 19). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-06-20 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-06-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-07-01 Assembly Rule 69 suspended. (Ayes 54. Noes 15. Page 6106.)
• 2024-07-01 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-07-01 Ordered to third reading.
• 2024-08-08 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 6244.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-08 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2024-08-12 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5038.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-08-15 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:45 a.m.
• 2024-08-16 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-08-16 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 171, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/34d653c0-f5d5-4539-a1dd-509f3481618d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).