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Bill	Parole: medical parole: compassionate release.	Existing law provides that the Board of Parole Hearings or its successor in interest shall be the state's parole authority. Existing law requires that a prisoner who is found to be permanently medically incapacitated, as specified, be granted medical parole, if the Board of Parole Hearings determines that the conditions under which the prisoner would be released would not reasonably pose a threat to public safety. Existing law exempts a prisoner sentenced to death, a prisoner sentenced to life without the possibility of parole, and a prisoner who is serving a sentence for which parole is prohibited by initiative statute, from medical parole eligibility.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	SB 6	California SB 6 (20152016)	bill	Parole: medical parole: compassionate release.	enacted	Galgiani	7	30	9	2014-12-01	2016-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/adbb6947-c443-47ca-bc78-f2cd268a6694	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB6	b7c94edbf2eac679027bac7f26a4b7afded9b8f37196defdd4dcdb5bbbad9020	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 6 (20152016) — Parole: medical parole: compassionate release.

Existing law provides that the Board of Parole Hearings or its successor in interest shall be the state's parole authority. Existing law requires that a prisoner who is found to be permanently medically incapacitated, as specified, be granted medical parole, if the Board of Parole Hearings determines that the conditions under which the prisoner would be released would not reasonably pose a threat to public safety. Existing law exempts a prisoner sentenced to death, a prisoner sentenced to life without the possibility of parole, and a prisoner who is serving a sentence for which parole is prohibited by initiative statute, from medical parole eligibility.

Version chain

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

1. 12/01/14 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/27/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/15/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/19/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/30/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB6 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/26/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• SB 6 Galgiani Senate Third Reading Amendment Set #1 — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 6 Galgiani Senate Third Reading By GONZALEZ — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB6 Galgiani Concurrence — 36–1 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 35–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Galgiani — primary (person)
• Gonzalez — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-12-01 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2014-12-02 From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 1.
• 2015-01-15 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2015-03-20 Set for hearing April 14.
• 2015-04-15 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 594.) (April 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-04-17 Set for hearing April 27.
• 2015-04-27 April 27 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2015-05-23 Set for hearing May 28.
• 2015-05-28 May 28 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
• 2016-01-16 Set for hearing January 21.
• 2016-01-21 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 2934.) (January 21). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-01-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-01-27 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 35. Noes 1. Page 2961.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-01-27 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2016-04-28 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2016-06-14 June 14 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2016-06-23 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 21). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-06-27 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-03 August 3 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2016-08-12 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (August 11). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-15 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-19 Read third time and amended. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5966.) reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-19 Ordered to third reading.
• 2016-08-23 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6097.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-23 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2016-08-24 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 36. Noes 1. Page 5372.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-30 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
• 2016-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 886, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/adbb6947-c443-47ca-bc78-f2cd268a6694. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).