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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Assembly Bill

AB 2001: Criminal procedure: state summary criminal history information.

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

AB 2001 is a assembly bill introduced in the California Assembly on February 17, 2026. According to its official title, it concerns: Criminal procedure: state summary criminal history information. Primary sponsor: Catherine Stefani (D). Most recent recorded action (September 20, 2026): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 378, Statutes of 2026.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Legislative Counsel’s Digest (official, as of the latest version). Written by nonpartisan legislative staff; reproduced verbatim.

Existing law requires the Department of Justice to maintain state summary criminal history information, as defined, and to furnish this information to various state and local government officers, officials, and other prescribed entities, if needed in the course of their duties. Existing law authorizes the Attorney General to furnish state summary criminal history information and, if authorized, federal-level criminal history information, upon a showing of a compelling need, to specified entities, including, among others, peace officers of the United States, other states, or territories or possessions of the United States. Existing law makes it a crime for a person authorized to receive state summary criminal history information to knowingly furnish that information to a person who is not authorized to receive it.

This bill would also authorize the Attorney General to furnish state summary criminal history information to peace officers of tribes in other states under the same conditions described above. The bill would require the Attorney General to furnish state summary criminal history information to a city attorney or county counsel pursuing, among other things, a red light abatement action, as provided. By expanding the scope of an existing crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.

This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Catherine StefaniPrimary sponsorDemocraticAssembly19

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 378, Statutes of 2026.
  2. Approved by the Governor.
  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
  4. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 6050.).
  5. In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
  6. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5499.).
  7. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
  8. Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
  9. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
  10. From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.
  11. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
  12. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 9).

Sources

  1. California Legislative Information — pubinfo database export
  2. Official bill page