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Bill	Emergencies: crimes.	Existing law defines looting as the commission of certain offenses during and within an affected county in a state of emergency or local emergency, as specified. Existing law includes any 2nd-degree burglary or grand theft in the definition of looting, and makes looting based on those offenses punishable by either imprisonment in a county jail for one year or as a felony.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	SB 571	California SB 571 (20252026)	bill	Emergencies crimes	enacted	Archuleta	9	31	8	2025-02-20	2025-10-10	openstates	ocd-bill/56977f86-87fb-4820-943e-2d651af367f2	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB571	9d24bfb421bccecef8db20f0091879dfa78e5c09cbb3020d859ba1eb3db9bd33	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 571 (20252026) — Emergencies: crimes.

Existing law defines looting as the commission of certain offenses during and within an affected county in a state of emergency or local emergency, as specified. Existing law includes any 2nd-degree burglary or grand theft in the definition of looting, and makes looting based on those offenses punishable by either imprisonment in a county jail for one year or as a felony.

Version chain

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

1. 02/20/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/25/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/23/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/17/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/02/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/04/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/10/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. SB571 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/16/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 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] — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading SB571 Archuleta et al. — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 571 Archuleta Senate Third Reading By Gabriel — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB571 Archuleta et al. Concurrence — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Archuleta — primary (person)
• Arreguín — author (person)
• Cervantes — principal coauthor (person)
• Grayson — principal coauthor (person)
• Hurtado — principal coauthor (person)
• Menjivar — principal coauthor (person)
• Pérez — principal coauthor (person)
• Reyes — principal coauthor (person)
• Richardson — principal coauthor (person)
• Stern — principal coauthor (person)
• Umberg — principal coauthor (person)
• Valladares — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-20 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2025-02-21 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
• 2025-03-05 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2025-03-25 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-04-02 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2025-04-09 Set for hearing April 22.
• 2025-04-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 842.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-04-25 Set for hearing May 5.
• 2025-05-05 May 5 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2025-05-16 Set for hearing May 23.
• 2025-05-23 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1204.) (May 23). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-23 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-06-03 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1452.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-06-04 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2025-06-09 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2025-07-01 July 1 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2025-07-16 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 15). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-07-17 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-08-20 August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2025-08-29 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (August 29). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-02 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-04 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-04 Ordered to third reading.
• 2025-09-09 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 3086.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-09 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2025-09-11 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2874.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-22 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2025-10-10 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-10 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 545, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/56977f86-87fb-4820-943e-2d651af367f2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).