republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-134.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public safety trailer bill."
description: "(1) Existing law, the California Public Records Act, authorizes the inspection and copying of any public record except where specifically prohibited by law. Existing law, with specified exemptions, makes confidential and exempts from disclosure the personnel records of peace officers and custodial records and certain other records maintained by their employing agencies. Existing law provides that this exemption from disclosure does not apply to investigations of these officers or their employing agencies and related proceedings conducted by a grand jury, a district attorney's office, or the Attorney General's office."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 134"
citation: "California AB 134 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Public safety trailer bill"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Budget"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 24
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-01-09"
last_action: "2023-07-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/65bd4cd8-dd91-4258-846b-f968a7720221"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB134"
source_hash: "8d5777efecaef0ad8fad33b7b5a1dfd8c3184674fbe61cec9d8253acf59b666f"
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 134 (20232024) — Public safety trailer bill.

(1) Existing law, the California Public Records Act, authorizes the inspection and copying of any public record except where specifically prohibited by law. Existing law, with specified exemptions, makes confidential and exempts from disclosure the personnel records of peace officers and custodial records and certain other records maintained by their employing agencies. Existing law provides that this exemption from disclosure does not apply to investigations of these officers or their employing agencies and related proceedings conducted by a grand jury, a district attorney's office, or the Attorney General's office.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/09/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB134&version=20230AB13499INT)
2. **02/01/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB134&version=20230AB13498AMD)
3. **06/24/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB134&version=20230AB13497AMD)
4. **07/10/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB134&version=20230AB13495CHP)
5. **AB134** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB134)
6. **06/27/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB134&version=20230AB13496ENR)

## Votes

- AB 134 Budget Assembly Third Reading By TING — **60–14** (pass) · lower
- AB 134 BUDGET Concurrence in Senate Amendments By TING — **59–17** (pass) · lower
- 2nd Reading AB134 BUDGET (Ting) By Skinner — **32–8** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **13–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Committee on Budget — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-09** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2023-01-10** From printer. May be heard in committee February 9.
- **2023-01-26** Referred to Com. on BUDGET. `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-01** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on BUDGET. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-02-02** Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-20** Assembly Rule 96 suspended. (Ayes 61. Noes 17. Page 732.)
- **2023-03-20** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2023-03-20** Ordered to second reading.
- **2023-03-21** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-03-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 60. Noes 14. Page 845.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-03-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2023-04-12** Referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-24** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-26** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 4.) (June 26). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-06-27** Senate Rules Suspended (Ayes 32. Noes 8.)
- **2023-06-27** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 8. Page 1767.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-06-27** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 29 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2023-06-27** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 2423.)
- **2023-06-27** Assembly Rule 77 suspended.
- **2023-06-27** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 59. Noes 17. Page 2423.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-27** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2023-07-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2023-07-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 47, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/65bd4cd8-dd91-4258-846b-f968a7720221`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).