republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/sb-230.md

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Bill	Sentencing: parole.	Existing law requires the Board of Parole Hearings to meet with every inmate during the 6th year before the inmate's minimum eligible parole release date to review and document the inmate's activities and conduct pertinent to parole eligibility and the granting or withholding of postconviction credit. Existing law requires a panel of 2 or more commissioners or deputy commissioners to meet with each inmate one year before the inmate's minimum eligible parole release date to set a parole release date, as specified, unless the panel determines that a parole release date cannot be fixed.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	SB 230	California SB 230 (20152016)	bill	Sentencing: parole.	enacted	Hancock	6	24	6	2015-02-13	2015-10-03	openstates	ocd-bill/d690e9bc-a10b-4924-b18b-ff5a42eca988	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB230	5bd037895ed0fe31426e446b248f0191e680d26ac470f98149212a73affd159f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 230 (20152016) — Sentencing: parole.

Existing law requires the Board of Parole Hearings to meet with every inmate during the 6th year before the inmate's minimum eligible parole release date to review and document the inmate's activities and conduct pertinent to parole eligibility and the granting or withholding of postconviction credit. Existing law requires a panel of 2 or more commissioners or deputy commissioners to meet with each inmate one year before the inmate's minimum eligible parole release date to set a parole release date, as specified, unless the panel determines that a parole release date cannot be fixed.

Version chain

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

1. 02/13/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/24/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/16/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/03/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. SB230 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/03/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–1 (pass) · lower
• SB 230 Hancock Senate Third Reading By QUIRK — 41–35 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 10–4 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 21–15 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB230 Hancock Concurrence — 23–15 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Hancock — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-13 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2015-02-17 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
• 2015-02-26 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2015-03-24 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-07 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2015-04-09 Set for hearing April 28.
• 2015-04-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 822.) (April 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-05-01 Set for hearing May 11.
• 2015-05-11 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2015-05-12 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-05-26 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 21. Noes 15. Page 1096.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-05-26 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2015-06-04 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2015-06-16 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (June 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-07-08 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 4.) (July 8). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-07-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-07-16 Read third time and amended. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-07-16 Ordered to third reading.
• 2015-08-31 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 41. Noes 35. Page 2699.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-08-31 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2015-09-02 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 23. Noes 15. Page 2416.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-09-08 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2015-10-03 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-10-03 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 470, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d690e9bc-a10b-4924-b18b-ff5a42eca988. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).