republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/sb-636.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Personal information: Internet disclosure prohibition."
description: "Existing law authorizes victims of domestic violence or stalking and reproductive health care providers, employees, and volunteers, as defined, to complete an application to be approved by the Secretary of State for the purposes of enabling state and local agencies to respond to requests for public records without disclosing a program participant's residence address contained in any public record. Existing law prohibits the Secretary of State from making a program participant's address publicly available, except in specified circumstances, including when the participant's program certification has been canceled."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "SB 636"
citation: "California SB 636 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Personal information: Internet disclosure prohibition."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Corbett"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 30
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2011-02-18"
last_action: "2011-08-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7a596829-f5bf-4868-84aa-37825e0b6e05"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB636"
source_hash: "8b8a47841318eb9d767c4015f42d536df26be6e5c6cfe1da02609a331f789029"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California SB 636 (20112012) — Personal information: Internet disclosure prohibition.

Existing law authorizes victims of domestic violence or stalking and reproductive health care providers, employees, and volunteers, as defined, to complete an application to be approved by the Secretary of State for the purposes of enabling state and local agencies to respond to requests for public records without disclosing a program participant's residence address contained in any public record. Existing law prohibits the Secretary of State from making a program participant's address publicly available, except in specified circumstances, including when the participant's program certification has been canceled.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/18/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB636&version=20110SB63699INT)
2. **03/23/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB636&version=20110SB63698AMD)
3. **03/31/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB636&version=20110SB63697AMD)
4. **04/14/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB636&version=20110SB63696AMD)
5. **06/22/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB636&version=20110SB63695AMD)
6. **08/31/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB636&version=20110SB63693CHP)
7. **SB636** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB636)
8. **08/16/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB636&version=20110SB63694ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Public Safety. — **4–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 636 Corbett Consent Calendar Second Day — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Special Consent #3 — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB636 Corbett Concurrence — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Corbett — primary (person)
- Jeffries — coauthor (person)
- Leno — coauthor (person)
- Lieu — coauthor (person)
- Portantino — coauthor (person)
- Smyth — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-02-18** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2011-02-20** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
- **2011-03-03** Referred to Coms. on JUD. and PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-23** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-03-23** (Corrected March 29.)
- **2011-03-29** Set for hearing April 5.
- **2011-03-31** Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2011-03-31** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-04-01** Set for hearing April 12.
- **2011-04-13** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 642.) (April 12). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-04-14** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-04-21** Set for hearing May 3.
- **2011-05-04** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 863.) (May 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-06** Set for hearing May 16.
- **2011-05-17** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2011-05-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-05-18** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2011-05-23** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1065.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-05-23** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2011-06-02** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-21** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 21). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-06-22** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-07-06** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (July 6). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-07-07** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-07-14** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2344.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-07-14** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2011-08-15** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1911.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2011-08-22** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 10 a.m.
- **2011-08-31** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2011-08-31** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 200, Statutes of 2011.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7a596829-f5bf-4868-84aa-37825e0b6e05`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).