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CA SB 459

enacted

Peace officers: confidential communications: exceptions: group peer support services.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

Quick answers

Did CA SB 459 pass?

Yes. CA SB 459 has been enacted into law as of 2025-10-07. Latest recorded action (2025-10-07): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 456, Statutes of 2025.

What is CA SB 459 about?

Existing law, the Law Enforcement Peer Support and Crisis Referral Services Program, authorizes a local or regional law enforcement agency to establish a peer support and crisis referral program to provide an agencywide network of peer representatives available to aid fellow employees on emotional or professional issues. Under existing law, a law enforcement personnel has a right to refuse to disclose, and to prevent another from disclosing, a confidential communication, as defined, between the law enforcement personnel and a peer support team member while the peer support team member was providing peer support services, or a confidential communication made to a crisis hotline or crisis referral service. Existing law authorizes a confidential communication to be disclosed under specified circumstances, including a criminal proceeding. This bill would authorize disclosure of a confidential communication in a juvenile delinquency proceeding. The bill would additionally give a law enforcement personnel the right to refuse to disclose, and to prevent another from disclosing, a confidential communication between the law enforcement personnel and a peer support team member while the peer support team member was providing group peer support services, as defined, and a confidential communication between law enforcement personnel recipients of group peer support services while a peer support team member or mental health professional provides group peer support services to those recipients. The bill would expand the definition of confidential communication to include the communication between law enforcement personnel recipients of group peer support services, as specified.

Who sponsors CA SB 459?

Grayson is the primary sponsor of CA SB 459.

Description

Existing law, the Law Enforcement Peer Support and Crisis Referral Services Program, authorizes a local or regional law enforcement agency to establish a peer support and crisis referral program to provide an agencywide network of peer representatives available to aid fellow employees on emotional or professional issues. Under existing law, a law enforcement personnel has a right to refuse to disclose, and to prevent another from disclosing, a confidential communication, as defined, between the law enforcement personnel and a peer support team member while the peer support team member was providing peer support services, or a confidential communication made to a crisis hotline or crisis referral service. Existing law authorizes a confidential communication to be disclosed under specified circumstances, including a criminal proceeding. This bill would authorize disclosure of a confidential communication in a juvenile delinquency proceeding. The bill would additionally give a law enforcement personnel the right to refuse to disclose, and to prevent another from disclosing, a confidential communication between the law enforcement personnel and a peer support team member while the peer support team member was providing group peer support services, as defined, and a confidential communication between law enforcement personnel recipients of group peer support services while a peer support team member or mental health professional provides group peer support services to those recipients. The bill would expand the definition of confidential communication to include the communication between law enforcement personnel recipients of group peer support services, as specified.

Introduced
2025-02-19
Latest action
2025-10-07 — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 456, Statutes of 2025.
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Graysonauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-02-19

    Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

    introduction,reading-1,referral-committee

  2. 2025-02-20

    From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.

  3. 2025-02-26

    Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and JUD.

    referral-committee

  4. 2025-03-18

    Set for hearing April 1.

  5. 2025-04-01

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 611.) (April 1). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

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  6. 2025-04-08

    Set for hearing May 6.

  7. 2025-05-07

    From committee: Do pass as amended. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0. Page 1027.) (May 6).

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  8. 2025-05-08

    Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar.

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  9. 2025-05-15

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 1090.) Ordered to the Assembly.

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  10. 2025-05-15

    In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

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  11. 2025-06-09

    Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and JUD.

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  12. 2025-06-17

    From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 17).

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  13. 2025-06-18

    Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

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  14. 2025-06-26

    From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

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  15. 2025-07-02

    From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (July 1).

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  16. 2025-07-03

    Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.

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  17. 2025-07-10

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 2508.) Ordered to the Senate.

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  18. 2025-07-10

    In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.

  19. 2025-08-21

    Ordered to special consent calendar.

  20. 2025-08-25

    Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2253.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

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  21. 2025-09-02

    Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.

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  22. 2025-10-07

    Approved by the Governor.

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  23. 2025-10-07

    Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 456, Statutes of 2025.

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Versions

  • 02/19/25 - Introduced — 2025-02-19Compare
  • 05/08/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-05-08Compare
  • 06/18/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-06-18Compare
  • 06/26/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-06-26Compare
  • 08/27/25 - Enrolled — 2025-08-27Compare
  • 10/07/25 - Chaptered — 2025-10-07Compare
  • SB459Compare
  • (document, no version)Compare

Documents

Votes

  • Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar

    2025-04-01 · pass · 6-0

    Member-level votes (6)
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Pérez: yes
    • Arreguín: yes

  • Do pass as amended, and be ordered to the Consent Calendar

    2025-05-06 · pass · 12-0

    Member-level votes (13)
    • Durazo: yes
    • Niello: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Stern: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Valladares: other

  • Consent Calendar 2nd

    2025-05-15 · pass · 34-0

    Member-level votes (40)
    • Becker: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Archuleta: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • McGuire: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Dahle: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Valladares: yes
    • Hurtado: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Blakespear: yes
    • Pérez: yes
    • Strickland: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Limón: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Choi: yes
    • Jones: yes
    • Niello: yes
    • Ochoa Bogh: yes
    • Stern: yes
    • McNerney: yes
    • Padilla: other
    • Alvarado-Gil: other
    • Grove: other
    • Rubio: other
    • Cervantes: other
    • Reyes: other

  • Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar

    2025-06-17 · pass · 9-0

    Member-level votes (9)
    • Alanis: yes
    • Schultz: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Ramos: yes
    • Nguyen: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Lackey: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes

  • Do pass. To Consent Calendar.

    2025-07-01 · pass · 12-0

    Member-level votes (12)
    • Connolly: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Macedo: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes

  • SB 459 Grayson Consent Calendar Second Day

    2025-07-10 · pass · 72-0

    Member-level votes (79)
    • Tangipa: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Macedo: yes
    • Ellis: yes
    • Bennett: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Bonta: yes
    • Lee: yes
    • Hoover: yes
    • Schiavo: yes
    • Addis: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • McKinnor: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Ransom: yes
    • Michelle Rodriguez: yes
    • Quirk-Silva: yes
    • Hadwick: yes
    • Wallis: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Bains: yes
    • Ortega: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Jeff Gonzalez: yes
    • Boerner: yes
    • Nguyen: yes
    • Ahrens: yes
    • Petrie-Norris: yes
    • DeMaio: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Lackey: yes
    • Celeste Rodriguez: yes
    • Blanca Rubio: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Gabriel: yes
    • Davies: yes
    • Alvarez: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Schultz: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Castillo: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Irwin: yes
    • Ramos: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Rogers: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Muratsuchi: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Soria: yes
    • Ward: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Patterson: yes
    • Valencia: yes
    • Chen: yes
    • Berman: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Flora: other
    • Gipson: other
    • Gallagher: other
    • Alanis: other
    • Bauer-Kahan: other
    • Carrillo: other
    • Rivas: other

  • Special Consent

    2025-08-25 · pass · 37-0

    Member-level votes (40)
    • Reyes: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Jones: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Dahle: yes
    • Niello: yes
    • Pérez: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Ochoa Bogh: yes
    • Grove: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Blakespear: yes
    • Choi: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Limón: yes
    • McNerney: yes
    • Becker: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Archuleta: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Cervantes: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Stern: yes
    • McGuire: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Strickland: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Valladares: yes
    • Hurtado: other
    • Alvarado-Gil: other
    • Rubio: other

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http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB459

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