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type: "Bill"
title: "Public Safety."
description: "Existing law authorizes a county to establish a pretrial diversion program for defendants who have been charged with a misdemeanor offense and authorizes other diversion programs, including for defendants with cognitive developmental disabilities, defendants in nonviolent drug cases, and traffic violations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 3234"
citation: "California AB 3234 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Safety."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ting"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 36
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2020-02-21"
last_action: "2020-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dbce543d-ebe0-49e4-9900-9152f9db8d91"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB3234"
source_hash: "081f9f965b76b394f93f0fafae65fdc319e20b378295dd9c22f1eaad3955ec74"
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 3234 (20192020) — Public Safety.
Existing law authorizes a county to establish a pretrial diversion program for defendants who have been charged with a misdemeanor offense and authorizes other diversion programs, including for defendants with cognitive developmental disabilities, defendants in nonviolent drug cases, and traffic violations.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/21/20 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB3234&version=20190AB323499INT)
2. **05/04/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB3234&version=20190AB323498AMD)
3. **05/18/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB3234&version=20190AB323497AMD)
4. **08/03/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB3234&version=20190AB323496AMD)
5. **08/11/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB3234&version=20190AB323495AMD)
6. **08/24/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB3234&version=20190AB323494AMD)
7. **09/30/20 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB3234&version=20190AB323492CHP)
8. **AB3234** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB3234)
9. **09/04/20 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB3234&version=20190AB323493ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass as amended. — **53** (pass) · lower
- AB 3234 TING Assembly Third Reading — **4326** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **180** (pass) · lower
- AB 3234 GLORIA Remove from Inactive File By TING Amendment Set #1**4018** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **80** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB3234 Ting By Mitchell — **2710** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Ting — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-02-21** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2020-02-22** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- **2020-02-24** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2020-04-24** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-04** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-05-05** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-14** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (May 12). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-05-18** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-05-19** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-02** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (June 2). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2020-06-03** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-06-08** From Consent Calendar.
- **2020-06-08** Ordered to inactive file at the request of Assembly Member Gloria.
- **2020-08-03** Assembly Rule 78 suspended. (Ayes 56. Noes 16. Page 5059.)
- **2020-08-03** From inactive file.
- **2020-08-03** Ordered to third reading.
- **2020-08-03** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 56. Noes 16. Page 5059.)
- **2020-08-03** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Ayes 40. Noes 18. Page 5067.) `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-08-03** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. `referral-committee`
- **2020-08-03** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Ayes 48. Noes 25. Page 5069.)
- **2020-08-10** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 3.) (August 5). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-08-11** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-08-12** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-08-24** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 5165.) `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-08-24** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 55. Noes 12. Page 5181.)
- **2020-08-24** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 43. Noes 26. Page 5183.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-08-24** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2020-08-30** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2020-08-30** (Ayes 29. Noes 10.)
- **2020-08-30** Ordered to second reading.
- **2020-08-30** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-08-31** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 10.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-08-31** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2020-09-15** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2020-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2020-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 334, Statutes of 2020.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dbce543d-ebe0-49e4-9900-9152f9db8d91`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).