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Bill	Crimes: prostitution.	Under existing law, a person who solicits, or who agrees to engage in, or who engages in, any act of prostitution is guilty of disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor. Under existing law, if the person solicited was under 16 years of age, or if the person solicited was under 18 years of age at the time of the offense and the person solicited was a victim of human trafficking, the offense is punishable as a misdemeanor by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year and a fine not to exceed $10,000 or as a felony by imprisonment in the county jail for 16 months or 2 or 3 years.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 379	California AB 379 (20252026)	bill	Crimes prostitution	enacted	Schultz	8	29	9	2025-02-03	2025-07-30	openstates	ocd-bill/544aa325-9538-4555-be1d-ba799b5a2616	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB379	23ee3c0822054a5d59d3a438fea6418c16b4948e025011ef95e454ab567cdaeb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 379 (20252026) — Crimes: prostitution.

Under existing law, a person who solicits, or who agrees to engage in, or who engages in, any act of prostitution is guilty of disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor. Under existing law, if the person solicited was under 16 years of age, or if the person solicited was under 18 years of age at the time of the offense and the person solicited was a victim of human trafficking, the offense is punishable as a misdemeanor by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year and a fine not to exceed $10,000 or as a felony by imprisonment in the county jail for 16 months or 2 or 3 years.

Version chain

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

1. 02/03/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 02/24/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/27/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/01/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/08/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/30/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB379 (committee substitute) — source
8. 07/16/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 379 Krell Assembly Second Reading Amend By SCHULTZ Set #1 — 56–21 (pass) · lower
• AB 379 Krell Assembly Second Reading Amend By SCHULTZ Set #1 Motion to Lay on the Table By MACEDO — 21–55 (fail) · lower
• AB 379 Krell Assembly Second Reading Amend By SCHULTZ Set #1 Appeal the Decision of the Speaker By MACEDO — 18–50 (fail) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB379 Schultz et al. By Arreguín — 33–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 379 Schultz Assembly Third Reading — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 15–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Schultz — primary (person)
• Krell — coauthor (person)
• Mark González — principal coauthor (person)
• Nguyen — author (person)
• Patel — coauthor (person)
• Ransom — coauthor (person)
• Wicks — coauthor (person)
• Ávila Farías — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-03 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-02-04 From printer. May be heard in committee March 6.
• 2025-02-24 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2025-02-24 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
• 2025-02-25 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2025-03-27 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
• 2025-03-28 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2025-04-24 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2025-04-28 Joint Rule 62(a) suspended. (Page 1307.)
• 2025-04-30 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 29). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-05-01 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-01 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2025-05-05 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2025-05-05 Joint Rule 62(a) suspended. (Ayes 62. Noes 0. Page 1424.)
• 2025-05-07 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 7). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2025-05-08 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-12 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-15 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1546.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-05-15 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-05-28 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2025-06-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-06-18 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2025-07-07 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 7). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-07-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-07-14 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 2. Page 2053.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-07-14 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2025-07-18 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
• 2025-07-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-07-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 82, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/544aa325-9538-4555-be1d-ba799b5a2616. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).