CA AB 1958

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Criminal procedure: discrimination.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Description

Existing law prohibits the state from seeking or obtaining a criminal conviction or sentence on the basis of race, ethnicity, or national origin, as specified. Existing law allows a defendant to establish a violation of these provisions under specified circumstances, including when a longer or more severe sentence was imposed on the defendant than was imposed on other similarly situated individuals convicted of the same offense and other specified conditions are met. This bill would instead compare the defendant to similarly situated individuals who have engaged in similar conduct, as specified. The bill would make these provisions apply to disparities in plea negotiating and diversion, among other things. Existing law authorizes a defendant in these cases to file a motion requesting disclosure to the defense of all evidence relevant to a potential violation of these provisions, as specified. This bill would additionally authorize a defendant to request any data that has been previously disclosed pursuant to those provisions in another criminal case, and require the court to grant that request, unless the data has no relevance to the current charges. The bill would also revise and recast definitions for these provisions.

Introduced: 2026-03-16
Status date: —
Latest action: 2026-05-28 — Read third time. Refused passage. (Ayes 33. Noes 22. Page 5545.).
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

Subjects

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

2026-02-13
Read first time. To print.
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2026-02-14
From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
2026-03-02
Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
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2026-03-16
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended.
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2026-03-17
Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
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2026-03-25
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended.
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2026-03-26
Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
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2026-04-08
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (April 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2026-04-29
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
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2026-05-14
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 4.) (May 14).
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2026-05-18
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2026-05-28
Read third time. Refused passage. (Ayes 33. Noes 22. Page 5545.).
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Versions

02/13/26 - Introduced — 2026-02-13Compare
03/16/26 - Amended Assembly — 2026-03-16Compare
03/25/26 - Amended Assembly — 2026-03-25Compare
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Documents

Votes

Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2026-04-07 · pass · 6-2
Member-level votes (9)
- Schultz: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Haney: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Alanis: no
- Lackey: no
- Nguyen: other
Do pass.
2026-05-14 · pass · 10-4
Member-level votes (15)
- Krell: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Fong: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Solache: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Tangipa: no
- Ta: no
- Dixon: no
- Hoover: no
- Pacheco: other
AB 1958 Kalra Assembly Third Reading
2026-05-28 · fail · 33-22
Member-level votes (80)
- Bryan: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Stefani: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Berman: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Solache: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Haney: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Ward: yes
- Hart: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Fong: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Lee: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Tangipa: no
- Hoover: no
- DeMaio: no
- Alanis: no
- Flora: no
- Ávila Farías: no
- Wallis: no
- Jeff Gonzalez: no
- Ellis: no
- Ramos: no
- Macedo: no
- Gallagher: no
- Davies: no
- Ta: no
- Lackey: no
- Dixon: no
- Patterson: no
- Castillo: no
- Chen: no
- Sanchez: no
- Johnson: no
- Hadwick: no
- Muratsuchi: other
- Soria: other
- Bauer-Kahan: other
- Celeste Rodriguez: other
- Schiavo: other
- Alvarez: other
- Petrie-Norris: other
- Valencia: other
- Calderon: other
- Krell: other
- Nguyen: other
- Pellerin: other
- Bains: other
- Wilson: other
- Gipson: other
- Addis: other
- Michelle Rodriguez: other
- Patel: other
- Irwin: other
- Papan: other
- Quirk-Silva: other
- Blanca Rubio: other
- Ransom: other
- Carrillo: other
- Pacheco: other

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