republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/ab-1960.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "State summary criminal history information: state hospitals."
description: "Existing law requires the Department of Justice to maintain state summary criminal history information, including the identification and criminal history of any person, such as his or her name, date of birth, physical description, fingerprints, photographs, dates of arrest, arresting agencies and booking numbers, charges, dispositions, and similar data about the person. Existing law requires the department to furnish this information in response to a request from certain authorized agencies, organizations, or individuals for specified purposes. Existing law authorizes state criminal summary history information to be given to the director of a state hospital or other treatment facility in specified circumstances, including when the person is being committed for being dangerous to others. Existing law makes it a misdemeanor to knowingly furnish a state summary criminal history record or information obtained from a record to a person who is not authorized by law to receive that record or information."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 1960"
citation: "California AB 1960 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State summary criminal history information: state hospitals."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Perea"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 26
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2014-02-19"
last_action: "2014-09-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fb94af7c-5cdd-43aa-ba34-233a9d849513"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1960"
source_hash: "48cf15297c1424f6210bfcf1acd4d2eae4447ceefd753f1603b72a283b97c95b"
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 AB 1960 (20132014) — State summary criminal history information: state hospitals.

Existing law requires the Department of Justice to maintain state summary criminal history information, including the identification and criminal history of any person, such as his or her name, date of birth, physical description, fingerprints, photographs, dates of arrest, arresting agencies and booking numbers, charges, dispositions, and similar data about the person. Existing law requires the department to furnish this information in response to a request from certain authorized agencies, organizations, or individuals for specified purposes. Existing law authorizes state criminal summary history information to be given to the director of a state hospital or other treatment facility in specified circumstances, including when the person is being committed for being dangerous to others. Existing law makes it a misdemeanor to knowingly furnish a state summary criminal history record or information obtained from a record to a person who is not authorized by law to receive that record or information.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/19/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1960&version=20130AB196099INT)
2. **03/27/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1960&version=20130AB196098AMD)
3. **04/21/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1960&version=20130AB196097AMD)
4. **09/28/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1960&version=20130AB196095CHP)
5. **AB1960** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1960)
6. **08/15/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1960&version=20130AB196096ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1960 PEREA Assembly Third Reading — **74–2** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1960 Perea By Beall — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Public Safety. — **8–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Perea — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-02-19** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2014-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
- **2014-03-03** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2014-03-27** 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-2, reading-1`
- **2014-03-28** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2014-04-02** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-04-09** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2014-04-21** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-04-22** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2014-04-30** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-05-01** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-05-08** From consent calendar.
- **2014-05-08** Ordered to third reading.
- **2014-05-15** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 2. Page 4959.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-05-15** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2014-05-22** Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-09** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2014-06-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-06-25** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-08-04** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2014-08-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-08-13** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4457.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-08-13** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2014-08-19** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2014-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 730, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fb94af7c-5cdd-43aa-ba34-233a9d849513`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).