--- type: "Bill" title: "Public employment: disqualification." description: "Existing law disqualifies a public employee, as defined, from any public employment for 5 years if the employee is convicted of any felony involving accepting or giving, or offering to give, a bribe, the embezzlement of public money, extortion or theft of public money, perjury, or conspiracy to commit any of those crimes arising directly out of their official duties." jurisdiction: "us/states/ca" legislature: "California Legislature" session: "20252026" identifier: "SB 521" citation: "California SB 521 (20252026)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: ["Publicemployment", "disqualification"] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Gonzalez"] version_count: 6 action_count: 23 vote_count: 5 first_action: "2025-02-19" last_action: "2025-07-30" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5de2e298-d583-4af6-b547-3dd67818bdbf" source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB521" source_hash: "68e6c3594df87d00a4748e34e8d10cb3d6660e62127e151db8e09956977d7661" 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 521 (20252026) — Public employment: disqualification. Existing law disqualifies a public employee, as defined, from any public employment for 5 years if the employee is convicted of any felony involving accepting or giving, or offering to give, a bribe, the embezzlement of public money, extortion or theft of public money, perjury, or conspiracy to commit any of those crimes arising directly out of their official duties. ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **02/19/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB521&version=20250SB52199INT) 2. **03/26/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB521&version=20250SB52198AMD) 3. **04/24/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB521&version=20250SB52197AMD) 4. **07/30/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB521&version=20250SB52195CHP) 5. **SB521** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB521) 6. **07/16/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB521&version=20250SB52196ENR) ## Votes - SB 521 Gonzalez Consent Calendar Second Day — **77–0** (pass) · lower - Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **5–0** (pass) · upper - Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **14–0** (pass) · lower - Consent Calendar 2nd — **36–0** (pass) · upper - Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · lower ## Sponsors - Gonzalez — primary (person) - Arreguín — coauthor (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2025-02-19** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1` - **2025-02-20** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22. - **2025-02-26** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee` - **2025-03-26** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee` - **2025-04-02** Re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. `referral-committee` - **2025-04-04** Set for hearing April 23. - **2025-04-23** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 870.) (April 23). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable` - **2025-04-24** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee` - **2025-04-29** Set for hearing May 5. - **2025-05-05** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2` - **2025-05-06** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2` - **2025-05-08** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 1050.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3` - **2025-05-08** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1` - **2025-05-29** Referred to Com. on P. E. & R. `referral-committee` - **2025-06-25** Coauthors revised. - **2025-06-25** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee` - **2025-07-02** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (July 2). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable` - **2025-07-03** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2` - **2025-07-14** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2539.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3` - **2025-07-14** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. - **2025-07-18** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m. - **2025-07-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature` - **2025-07-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 92, Statutes of 2025. `became-law` ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5de2e298-d583-4af6-b547-3dd67818bdbf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).