All Roll Calls
Yes: 136 • No: 0
CaliforniaAB 3542025-2026 Regular SessionHouse
Crimes: looting.
Sponsored By: Michelle Michelle Rodriguez (Democratic)
Signed by Governor
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Bill Overview
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3 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 2 mixed.
Faster, fuller reporting on officer conduct
Beginning January 1, 2023, agencies must report hires, separations, key complaints, findings, and civil case outcomes to the commission within 10 days. By July 1, 2023, agencies had to report the same types of events that occurred from January 1, 2020 to January 1, 2023. Agencies must let the commission inspect or copy related investigation files and keep them available for at least two years after the latest action. When an officer leaves, the agency must file a signed affidavit stating the reason; the officer may submit a written response. Before hiring a former peace officer, agencies must ask the commission about any prior separation, and the commission shares what it has. The commission notifies agency heads when it opens cases and takes action, and notifies the local district attorney if it suspends or revokes a certificate. Agencies and the commission are protected from civil lawsuits when they share information in good faith, and the commission may withhold details from the officer if release would harm an active case or put a victim or witness at risk.
Clear rules and limits on decertification
Beginning January 1, 2023, the commission defines “serious misconduct,” including dishonesty, abuse of power, excessive force, sexual assault, bias, law‑enforcement gang activity, and failing to cooperate or intercede. Agencies must finish serious‑misconduct investigations even if the officer quits or retires. The commission’s division reviews cases, can get confidential records, and must finish its own investigation within three years after it receives the agency’s completed report; the clock pauses during appeals or criminal cases, and there is no time limit if no report was sent. The commission keeps investigation records for 30 years. Officers may permanently surrender their certification; surrender equals revocation and cannot be undone. For conduct before January 1, 2022, new cases are limited to certain very serious acts or when the agency’s final decision came after January 1, 2022.
Police standards board access and checks
The law lets California’s police standards board inspect and copy CLETS and other criminal records when needed for its duties. Two new members who are not peace officers join the commission, with expertise in bias, cultural competency, mental health and policing, or work with vulnerable people. Staff, appointees, volunteers, contractors, and subcontractors who need access to criminal or CLETS data must pass fingerprint‑based state and national background checks. The commission submits fingerprints to the state Department of Justice and receives the official responses.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Michelle Michelle Rodriguez
Democratic • House
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 6/27/2025
Item 109 — Senate SFLOOR
Yes: 38 • No: 0
legislature vote • 6/10/2025
Vote in CS72
Yes: 6 • No: 0
House vote • 5/8/2025
Item 139 — Assembly AFLOOR
Yes: 69 • No: 0
legislature vote • 4/30/2025
Vote in CX25
Yes: 14 • No: 0
legislature vote • 4/8/2025
Vote in CX18
Yes: 9 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 32, Statutes of 2025.
7/14/2025SenateApproved by the Governor.
7/14/2025legislatureEnrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
7/3/2025legislatureIn Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.
6/27/2025HouseRead third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1809.).
6/27/2025SenateRead second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
6/24/2025SenateFrom committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar.
6/23/2025SenateFrom committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
6/12/2025SenateFrom committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
6/10/2025SenateReferred to Com. on PUB. S.
5/21/2025SenateIn Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
5/8/2025SenateRead third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 1485.).
5/8/2025HouseRead second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
5/1/2025HouseFrom committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 30).
4/30/2025HouseRe-referred to Com. on APPR.
4/21/2025HouseRead second time and amended.
4/10/2025HouseFrom committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 8).
4/9/2025HouseRe-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
3/25/2025HouseReferred to Com. on PUB. S.
3/24/2025HouseFrom committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended.
3/24/2025HouseFrom printer. May be heard in committee March 2.
1/31/2025HouseRead first time. To print.
1/30/2025House
Bill Text
Chaptered
7/14/2025
Enrolled
7/1/2025
Amended Assembly
4/10/2025
Amended Assembly
3/24/2025
Introduced
1/30/2025