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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Exonerated inmates: transitional services."
+description: "Existing law allows every person who is unlawfully imprisoned or restrained of his or her liberty, under any pretense, to prosecute a writ of habeas corpus to inquire into the cause of his or her imprisonment or restraint. Existing law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to assist a person who is exonerated, as defined, as to a conviction for which he or she is serving a state prison sentence at the time of exoneration with specified transitional services for a period of not less than 6 months and not more than one year from the date of release."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20172018"
+identifier: "SB 336"
+citation: "California SB 336 (20172018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Exonerated inmates: transitional services."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Anderson"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 28
+vote_count: 8
+first_action: "2017-02-13"
+last_action: "2017-10-12"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/11264d9c-05f7-4eae-b2ea-9fbc4f94277c"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB336"
+source_hash: "8a324a587f9f45ec5c35cfb472679a6a2be6fe140dfcc3dcd56bc5b525fe8cb3"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
+---
+
+# California SB 336 (20172018) — Exonerated inmates: transitional services.
+
+Existing law allows every person who is unlawfully imprisoned or restrained of his or her liberty, under any pretense, to prosecute a writ of habeas corpus to inquire into the cause of his or her imprisonment or restraint. Existing law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to assist a person who is exonerated, as defined, as to a conviction for which he or she is serving a state prison sentence at the time of exoneration with specified transitional services for a period of not less than 6 months and not more than one year from the date of release.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/13/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB336&version=20170SB33699INT)
+2. **05/26/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB336&version=20170SB33698AMD)
+3. **08/24/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB336&version=20170SB33697AMD)
+4. **10/12/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB336&version=20170SB33695CHP)
+5. **SB336** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB336)
+6. **09/07/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB336&version=20170SB33696ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Special Consent SB336 — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
+- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **6–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **6–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass as amended — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- SB 336 Anderson Senate Third Reading By LACKEY — **77–0** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading SB336 Anderson et al. — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Anderson — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-02-13** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2017-02-14** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 16.
+- **2017-02-23** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-09** Set for hearing April 4.
+- **2017-04-04** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 599.) (April 4). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2017-04-13** Set for hearing April 24.
+- **2017-04-24** April 24 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
+- **2017-05-19** Set for hearing May 25.
+- **2017-05-25** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1182.) (May 25). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
+- **2017-05-26** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
+- **2017-05-26** Published May 26 at 10 a.m.
+- **2017-05-31** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1321.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2017-06-01** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
+- **2017-06-12** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
+- **2017-06-27** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2017-07-19** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (July 19). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2017-07-20** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2017-08-21** From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Calderon.
+- **2017-08-21** Ordered to third reading.
+- **2017-08-24** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
+- **2017-08-24** Ordered to third reading.
+- **2017-08-31** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2844.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2017-08-31** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
+- **2017-09-01** Ordered to special consent calendar.
+- **2017-09-05** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2478.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
+- **2017-09-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
+- **2017-10-12** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2017-10-12** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 728, Statutes of 2017.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/11264d9c-05f7-4eae-b2ea-9fbc4f94277c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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