republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/ab-2418.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Crimes: Justice Data Accountability and Transparency Act."
description: "Existing law requires the Department of Justice to compile criminal offender record information, defined as the records and data compiled by criminal justice agencies, for purposes of identifying criminal offenders and of maintaining as to each offender a summary of certain information, including arrests, pretrial proceedings, sentencing, and release. Existing law requires a reporting agency to report specified information to the department concerning each arrest, including applicable identification and arrest data, as specified. Existing law requires the superior court that disposes of a case for which an arrest was made to report specified data to the department, including the disposition of the case and specified data elements."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 2418"
citation: "California AB 2418 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crimes: Justice Data Accountability and Transparency Act."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kalra"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 27
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2022-02-17"
last_action: "2022-09-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7ab407e9-d52f-48ab-853e-7263fd39b665"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2418"
source_hash: "bc2bee3feb93de5ddb5b5387d38bf2502394939a812da04e4cd06652ad2cece4"
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 2418 (20212022) — Crimes: Justice Data Accountability and Transparency Act.

Existing law requires the Department of Justice to compile criminal offender record information, defined as the records and data compiled by criminal justice agencies, for purposes of identifying criminal offenders and of maintaining as to each offender a summary of certain information, including arrests, pretrial proceedings, sentencing, and release. Existing law requires a reporting agency to report specified information to the department concerning each arrest, including applicable identification and arrest data, as specified. Existing law requires the superior court that disposes of a case for which an arrest was made to report specified data to the department, including the disposition of the case and specified data elements.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/17/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2418&version=20210AB241899INT)
2. **03/31/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2418&version=20210AB241898AMD)
3. **04/21/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2418&version=20210AB241897AMD)
4. **06/30/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2418&version=20210AB241896AMD)
5. **08/11/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2418&version=20210AB241895AMD)
6. **08/25/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2418&version=20210AB241894AMD)
7. **09/29/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2418&version=20210AB241892CHP)
8. **AB2418** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2418)
9. **09/01/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2418&version=20210AB241893ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **4–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB2418 Kalra By Wiener — **30–7** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **12–3** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2418 Kalra Assembly Third Reading — **51–15** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- AB 2418 Kalra Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **58–12** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kalra — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-17** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2022-02-18** From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
- **2022-03-10** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-31** 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`
- **2022-04-04** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-20** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (April 19). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-21** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-04-25** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2022-05-11** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2022-05-19** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 3.) (May 19). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-05-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-26** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 51. Noes 15.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-05-27** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2022-06-08** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-29** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 28). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-30** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-08-02** In committee: Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2022-08-11** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 11). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2022-08-11** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-25** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 7. Page 5210.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-29** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2022-08-30** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 58. Noes 12.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-09-09** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2022-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 787, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7ab407e9-d52f-48ab-853e-7263fd39b665`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).