republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/sb-1474.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Safety Omnibus."
description: "(1) Existing law requires that persons required to register as sex offenders be subject to assessment by the State-Authorized Risk Assessment Tool for Sex Offenders (SARATSO) , as specified. Existing law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the State Department of State Hospitals to perform a risk assessment of every eligible person under their jurisdiction, as specified, requires those departments to send the scores obtained in accordance with those provisions to the Department of Justice Sex Offender Tracking Program not later than 30 days after the date of the assessment, and requires that the risk assessment score of an offender be made part of his or her file maintained by the Department of Justice Sex Offender Tracking Program as soon as possible without financial impact."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "SB 1474"
citation: "California SB 1474 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Safety Omnibus."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Public Safety"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 17
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2016-02-29"
last_action: "2016-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e77fd0d1-4c8a-49f9-b06d-fee695558008"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1474"
source_hash: "17d40690a1ba76c1e227d5b75e6e0113b99a9f6ee557716895ef9893991bc889"
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 1474 (20152016) — Public Safety Omnibus.

(1) Existing law requires that persons required to register as sex offenders be subject to assessment by the State-Authorized Risk Assessment Tool for Sex Offenders (SARATSO) , as specified. Existing law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the State Department of State Hospitals to perform a risk assessment of every eligible person under their jurisdiction, as specified, requires those departments to send the scores obtained in accordance with those provisions to the Department of Justice Sex Offender Tracking Program not later than 30 days after the date of the assessment, and requires that the risk assessment score of an offender be made part of his or her file maintained by the Department of Justice Sex Offender Tracking Program as soon as possible without financial impact.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/29/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1474&version=20150SB147499INT)
2. **04/07/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1474&version=20150SB147498AMD)
3. **07/01/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1474&version=20150SB147496CHP)
4. **SB1474** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1474)
5. **06/27/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1474&version=20150SB147497ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd SB1474 Committee On PUB. S. — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 1474 PUB. S. Consent Calendar Second Day — **79–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Public Safety — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-02-29** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2016-03-01** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 31.
- **2016-03-10** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-15** Set for hearing April 19.
- **2016-04-07** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-04-20** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3615.) (April 19). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-04-21** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-04-28** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 3712.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-04-28** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2016-05-05** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-15** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-06-16** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-06-23** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 5488.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-06-23** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2016-06-29** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2016-07-01** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-07-01** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 59, Statutes of 2016.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e77fd0d1-4c8a-49f9-b06d-fee695558008`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).