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CaliforniaAB 12582025-2026 Regular SessionHouse

Deferred entry of judgment pilot program.

Sponsored By: Ash Kalra (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

5 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 1 costs, 2 mixed.

Services and clean slate for completers

Participants must be suited to benefit from services like therapy, mental health care, and age‑appropriate education or job training. Probation must make a reentry plan that covers housing, work, and school. If you finish the program successfully, the court dismisses your charges.

Custody cap and safety rules in hall

If you are in the pilot and held in juvenile hall, you cannot be held there for more than one year. Program participants may not have any contact with minors in the facility, including housing, recreation, or classes. You must follow juvenile hall rules set under state regulations to remain in the program.

Pilot counties, approvals, reports, and sunset

Only Butte, Nevada, and Santa Clara counties may run the pilot. A county must get state corrections board approval for a facility, and the board has 30 days to decide. The Office of Youth and Community Restoration reviews sight‑and‑sound separation and reports results to the board within 30 days after the review. Each county must form a multidisciplinary team with probation, the district attorney, public defender, sheriff, courts, the board of supervisors, health and human services, and a youth advocacy group. Counties must evaluate the pilot and send a report to the Assembly and Senate Public Safety Committees by December 31, 2027, and probation must also send recidivism data to the state Justice Department. The pilot chapter ends January 1, 2029, unless another law extends it.

Removal and transfer if rules are broken

If you commit a new crime, break hall rules, or stop benefiting, probation can ask the court to enter judgment. After notice and a hearing, the court can find you guilty, sentence you, and remove you from the program. The county team decides how and when to move you from juvenile hall to county jail.

Who can join the young adult pilot

The law lets some young adults use a deferred judgment pilot in Butte, Nevada, and Santa Clara counties. You qualify if you were 18–20 at the time of the offense; ages 21–24 need approval from the county multidisciplinary team. You must be charged with a qualifying felony, be jail‑bound, plead guilty, give up a speedy trial or speedy preliminary hearing, and waive time for judgment. You cannot join if you must register as a sex offender or have listed serious or violent convictions. Probation, with the court, district attorney, and sheriff, uses a risk tool to decide suitability. If you are ineligible or do not consent, your case continues in the normal process.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Ash Kalra

    Democratic • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 177 • No: 36

House vote • 9/4/2025

Item 42 — Assembly AFLOOR

Yes: 61 • No: 13

Senate vote • 9/3/2025

Item 201 — Senate SFLOOR

Yes: 32 • No: 8

legislature vote • 6/24/2025

Vote in CS72

Yes: 5 • No: 1

House vote • 6/2/2025

Item 259 — Assembly AFLOOR

Yes: 61 • No: 13

legislature vote • 5/23/2025

Vote in CX25

Yes: 11 • No: 1

legislature vote • 4/8/2025

Vote in CX18

Yes: 7 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 394, Statutes of 2025.

    10/6/2025Senate

  2. Approved by the Governor.

    10/6/2025legislature

  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.

    9/15/2025legislature

  4. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 61. Noes 13. Page 2923.).

    9/4/2025House

  5. In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.

    9/3/2025House

  6. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 8. Page 2448.).

    9/3/2025Senate

  7. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

    8/27/2025Senate

  8. Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

    8/26/2025Senate

  9. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

    7/8/2025Senate

  10. From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.

    7/7/2025Senate

  11. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

    6/24/2025Senate

  12. Referred to Com. on PUB. S.

    6/11/2025Senate

  13. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

    6/3/2025Senate

  14. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 61. Noes 13. Page 1932.)

    6/2/2025House

  15. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

    5/27/2025House

  16. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (May 23).

    5/23/2025House

  17. In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.

    4/23/2025House

  18. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

    4/9/2025House

  19. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.

    4/3/2025House

  20. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended.

    4/2/2025House

  21. Referred to Com. on PUB. S.

    3/10/2025House

  22. Read first time.

    2/24/2025House

  23. From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.

    2/22/2025House

  24. Introduced. To print.

    2/21/2025House

Bill Text

  • Chaptered

    10/6/2025

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  • Enrolled

    9/8/2025

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  • Amended Senate

    8/26/2025

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  • Amended Assembly

    4/2/2025

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  • Introduced

    2/21/2025

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