CA AB343 | 2025-2026 | Regular Session

California Assembly Bill 343

Status

Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)
Status: Passed on October 1 2025 - 100% progression
Action: 2025-10-01 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 142, Statutes of 2025.
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Summary

An act to amend Section 7920.500 of the Government Code, relating to public records.

Title

California Public Records Act: elected or appointed officials.

Roll Calls

2025-09-08 - Assembly - AB 343 Pacheco Concurrence in Senate Amendments (Y: 79 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2025-09-04 - Senate - Special Consent AB343 Pacheco et al (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2025-08-29 - Senate - Do pass (Y: 7 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-07-07 - Senate - Placed on suspense file (Y: 6 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2025-06-24 - Senate - Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar (Y: 12 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2025-06-02 - Assembly - AB 343 Pacheco Assembly Third Reading (Y: 79 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-05-23 - Assembly - Do pass (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2025-03-04 - Assembly - Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar (Y: 12 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

History

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-10-01		Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 142, Statutes of 2025.
2025-10-01		Approved by the Governor.
2025-09-15		Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
2025-09-08	Assembly	Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3024.).
2025-09-04	Assembly	In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2025-09-04	Senate	Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2520.).
2025-09-02	Senate	Ordered to special consent calendar.
2025-08-29	Senate	Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2025-08-29	Senate	From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29).
2025-07-07	Senate	In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.
2025-07-01	Senate	From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-06-25	Senate	From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-06-11	Senate	Referred to Com. on JUD.
2025-06-03	Senate	In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
2025-06-02	Assembly	Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1820.)
2025-05-27	Assembly	Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2025-05-23	Assembly	From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 23).
2025-04-09	Assembly	In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
2025-03-04	Assembly	From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (March 4). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-02-10	Assembly	Referred to Com. on JUD.
2025-01-30	Assembly	From printer. May be heard in committee March 1.
2025-01-29	Assembly	Read first time. To print.

Code Citations

Chapter	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
Government Code	7920.500	Amended Code	Citation Text

California State Sources

Type	Source
Summary	https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB343
Text	https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB343#99INT
Text	https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB343#98AMD
Text	https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB343#97ENR
Text	https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB343#96CHP
Roll Call	https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB343