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Bill	California Public Records Act: elected or appointed officials.	Existing law, the California Public Records Act, requires state and local agencies to make their records available for public inspection, unless an exemption from disclosure applies. That law exempts from disclosure specified information relating to elected or appointed officials, and makes specified disclosures of information relating to elected or appointed officials a crime. The law defines "elected or appointed official" for that purpose to include, among other things, a judge or court commissioner, a federal judge or federal defender, and a judge of a federally recognized Indian tribe.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 343	California AB 343 (20252026)	bill	CaliforniaPublicRecordsAct electedorappointedofficials	enacted	Pacheco	5	22	8	2025-01-29	2025-10-01	openstates	ocd-bill/861b5cc2-cd0f-4afc-974f-fb3db9b1522c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB343	83f107eb7882527337353b9cb0c94cc7e9e3090e011b1a64bf45ce19d2cf5f52	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 343 (20252026) — California Public Records Act: elected or appointed officials.

Existing law, the California Public Records Act, requires state and local agencies to make their records available for public inspection, unless an exemption from disclosure applies. That law exempts from disclosure specified information relating to elected or appointed officials, and makes specified disclosures of information relating to elected or appointed officials a crime. The law defines "elected or appointed official" for that purpose to include, among other things, a judge or court commissioner, a federal judge or federal defender, and a judge of a federally recognized Indian tribe.

Version chain

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

1. 01/29/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 07/01/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 10/01/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB343 (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/10/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 343 Pacheco Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 343 Pacheco Assembly Third Reading — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 12–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent AB343 Pacheco et al. — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Pacheco — primary (person)
• Ramos — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-29 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-01-30 From printer. May be heard in committee March 1.
• 2025-02-10 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2025-03-04 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (March 4). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-04-09 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2025-05-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 23). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-06-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1820.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-06-03 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-06-11 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2025-06-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-07-01 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
• 2025-07-07 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2025-08-29 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-08-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-02 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2025-09-04 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2520.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-04 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-09-08 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3024.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-15 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2025-10-01 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-01 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 142, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/861b5cc2-cd0f-4afc-974f-fb3db9b1522c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).