---
type: "Bill"
title: "Sentencing."
description: "Existing law imposes an additional 3-year sentence for each prior separate prison term served by a defendant where the prior and current offense was a violent felony, as defined. For other felonies, existing law imposes an additional one-year term for each prior separate prison term or county jail felony term, except under specified circumstances."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "SB 136"
citation: "California SB 136 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Sentencing."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wiener"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-01-15"
last_action: "2019-10-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0150a802-6e1f-416d-8f97-9a271a7c0bd7"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB136"
source_hash: "e5e09a48493545be346f16586677f1d3796ee0108beb7722107dc2e5cfbed27a"
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 136 (20192020) — Sentencing.

Existing law imposes an additional 3-year sentence for each prior separate prison term served by a defendant where the prior and current offense was a violent felony, as defined. For other felonies, existing law imposes an additional one-year term for each prior separate prison term or county jail felony term, except under specified circumstances.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **01/15/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB136&version=20190SB13699INT)
2. **09/03/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB136&version=20190SB13698AMD)
3. **10/08/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB136&version=20190SB13696CHP)
4. **SB136** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB136)
5. **09/17/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB136&version=20190SB13697ENR)

## Votes

- SB 136 Wiener Senate Third Reading By Kalra — **41–37** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading SB136 Wiener et al. — **21–11** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business — **22–16** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **10–5** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Wiener — primary (person)
- Bradford — coauthor (person)
- Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Kalra — principal coauthor (person)
- Kamlager-Dove — coauthor (person)
- Mitchell — coauthor (person)
- Quirk — coauthor (person)
- Weber — coauthor (person)
- Wicks — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-01-15** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-01-16** From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 15.
- **2019-01-24** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-28** Set for hearing March 26.
- **2019-03-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 440.) (March 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-11** Set for hearing April 22.
- **2019-04-22** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2019-04-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-28** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 21. Noes 11. Page 1337.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-28** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2019-06-06** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-26** Coauthors revised.
- **2019-06-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-08-14** August 14 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2019-08-30** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 5.) (August 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2019-09-03** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-09-04** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-09-12** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 41. Noes 37. Page 3505.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-13** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2019-09-13** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 22. Noes 16. Page 2948.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-09-20** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 10 a.m.
- **2019-10-08** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-10-08** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 590, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0150a802-6e1f-416d-8f97-9a271a7c0bd7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).