CA SB 379

in committee

Sexually violent predators.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

Quick answers

Did CA SB 379 pass?

Not yet. CA SB 379 is in committee as of 2025-08-29 and has not come to a final vote. Latest recorded action (2025-08-29): August 29 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.

What is CA SB 379 about?

Existing law provides for the civil commitment of a person who is determined to be a sexually violent predator. Existing law establishes a procedure by which a person committed as a sexually violent predator may petition for conditional release and requires the court, if it makes a specified determination, to place the person on conditional release. Existing law generally requires that a person released on conditional release pursuant to these provisions be placed in the person's county of domicile prior to their incarceration unless extraordinary circumstances exist requiring placement outside the county, as specified. Existing law also prohibits the placement of a person released on conditional release within 14 mile of any public or private school, as specified. Existing law defines a sexually violent predator as a person who has been convicted of a sexually violent offense and has a diagnosed mental disorder that makes the person a danger to others in that they are likely to engage in sexually violent criminal behavior. Existing law requires the State Department of State Hospitals to notify the sheriff or chief of police, or both, the district attorney, or the county's designated counsel under specific circumstances, including when it makes a recommendation to the court for community outpatient treatment for a person committed as a sexually violent predator. This bill, the Sexually Violent Predator Accountability, Fairness, and Enforcement Act, would require the State Department of State Hospitals to ensure department vendors consider public safety in the placement of a conditionally released sexually violent predator and approve a potential placement before a department employee or vendor signs a lease or rental agreement for the placement of a sexually violent predator, as specified. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Who sponsors CA SB 379?

Jones is the primary sponsor of CA SB 379.

Description

Introduced: 2025-02-13
Latest action: 2025-08-29 — August 29 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

Subjects

Sexuallyviolentpredators

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

2025-02-13
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
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2025-02-14
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 16.
2025-03-05
Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
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2025-03-18
Set for hearing April 1.
2025-04-01
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 611.) (April 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-04-04
Set for hearing April 21.
2025-04-21
April 21 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
2025-05-16
Set for hearing May 23.
2025-05-23
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-05-23
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1198.) (May 23).
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2025-06-03
Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1465.) Ordered to the Assembly.
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2025-06-04
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
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2025-06-09
Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
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2025-06-17
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-07-09
July 9 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
2025-08-29
August 29 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.

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Votes

Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-04-01 · pass · 6-0
Member-level votes (6)
- Seyarto: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Arreguín: yes
Placed on suspense file
2025-04-21 · pass · 6-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Grayson: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Dahle: other
Do pass
2025-05-23 · pass · 6-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Caballero: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Dahle: other
3rd Reading (Urgency Clause)
2025-06-03 · pass · 39-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Valladares: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Choi: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Becker: yes
- Laird: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Stern: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Niello: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Grove: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Allen: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Jones: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Limón: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Reyes: other
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-06-17 · pass · 8-0
Member-level votes (9)
- Alanis: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Haney: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Sharp-Collins: other

Related bills

No related bills recorded for this bill.

Official source

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB379

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