republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20092010/ab-674.md

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Bill	Criminal procedure: veterans.	Existing law provides that if a person is convicted of a criminal offense and alleges that he or she committed the offense as a result of post-traumatic stress disorder, substance abuse, or psychological problems stemming from service in combat in the United States military, the court shall hold a hearing prior to sentencing to make a determination about the allegation. If the court finds that the defendant's crime was committed as a result of one of those factors related to serving in combat, and the court places the person on probation, existing law authorizes the court to place the person into a treatment program, and provides that the defendant receives sentence credits for residential treatment, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 674	California AB 674 (20092010)	bill	Criminal procedure: veterans.	enacted	Salas	8	26	8	2009-02-25	2010-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/60f063bf-a415-4836-b2bd-54939c04bcc4	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB674	7f3f88130d7194a99b383c4bc99bc0e919cf30c4643a1d061c47258ea05a1cb3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 674 (20092010) — Criminal procedure: veterans.

Existing law provides that if a person is convicted of a criminal offense and alleges that he or she committed the offense as a result of post-traumatic stress disorder, substance abuse, or psychological problems stemming from service in combat in the United States military, the court shall hold a hearing prior to sentencing to make a determination about the allegation. If the court finds that the defendant's crime was committed as a result of one of those factors related to serving in combat, and the court places the person on probation, existing law authorizes the court to place the person into a treatment program, and provides that the defendant receives sentence credits for residential treatment, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/25/09 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/04/10 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 01/25/10 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/15/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/17/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/27/10 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB674 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/30/10 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 674 SALAS Consent Calendar Second Day — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, to Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — pass (pass) · upper
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · upper
• AB 674 SALAS Concurrence in Senate Amendments — pass (pass) · lower
• Assembly 3rd Reading AB674 Salas — pass (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Salas — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2009-02-25 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2009-02-26 From printer. May be heard in committee March 28.
• 2009-02-26 (Corrected April 29.)
• 2009-03-23 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2009-04-14 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2009-04-21 In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2010-01-04 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2010-01-04 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2010-01-13 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (January 12). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2010-01-21 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (January 21). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2010-01-25 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-01-26 Read second time. To Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-01-28 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 3929.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2010-01-28 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2010-02-11 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2010-06-30 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 29). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2010-07-15 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2010-08-02 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR suspense file. referral-committee
• 2010-08-16 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (August 12). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2010-08-17 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-08-19 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 4681.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2010-08-19 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 21 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2010-08-23 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6466.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2010-09-02 Enrolled and to the Governor at 3:45 p.m.
• 2010-09-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2010-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 347, Statutes of 2010.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/60f063bf-a415-4836-b2bd-54939c04bcc4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).