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Bill	Criminal procedure: legal assistance: ability to pay.	Existing law requires a court to assign counsel to defend a defendant if the defendant desires the assistance of counsel and cannot afford to pay for counsel. Upon conclusion of the proceedings against the defendant, or withdrawal of counsel, existing law authorizes the court to make a determination of the ability of a defendant to pay all or a portion of his or her defense. Existing law authorizes the court to order a defendant to reimburse the county for those costs. Existing law provides a presumption that a defendant sentenced to state prison is determined not to have a reasonably discernible future financial ability to reimburse the costs of his or her defense, except as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	SB 614	California SB 614 (20152016)	bill	Criminal procedure: legal assistance: ability to pay.	enacted	Hertzberg	9	42	10	2015-02-27	2016-09-23	openstates	ocd-bill/52df76d5-b113-483c-8ee5-674fd4a534d2	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB614	3a0719f90301207fa2f1d1d27624164c7ac84418029bbfdc470b004f534c06b3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 614 (20152016) — Criminal procedure: legal assistance: ability to pay.

Existing law requires a court to assign counsel to defend a defendant if the defendant desires the assistance of counsel and cannot afford to pay for counsel. Upon conclusion of the proceedings against the defendant, or withdrawal of counsel, existing law authorizes the court to make a determination of the ability of a defendant to pay all or a portion of his or her defense. Existing law authorizes the court to order a defendant to reimburse the county for those costs. Existing law provides a presumption that a defendant sentenced to state prison is determined not to have a reasonably discernible future financial ability to reimburse the costs of his or her defense, except as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/27/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/06/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/06/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/16/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/18/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/31/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/23/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. SB614 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/02/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 614 Hertzberg Senate Third Reading By MAYES — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• That the Assembly amendments be concurred in — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB614 Hertzberg Concurrence — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Hertzberg — primary (person)
• Leno — coauthor (person)
• Mayes — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-27 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2015-03-02 From printer. May be acted upon on or after April 1.
• 2015-03-02 Read first time. reading-1
• 2015-03-12 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2015-03-20 Set for hearing April 15.
• 2015-04-06 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-16 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 651.) (April 15). 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 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1157.) (May 28). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-05-28 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-06-01 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1191.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-02 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2015-06-18 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2015-07-06 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2015-07-15 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (July 14). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-07-16 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-08-26 August 26 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2015-08-27 Joint Rule 62(a) suspended.
• 2015-08-28 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (August 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-08-31 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-01 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-03 Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Cristina Garcia.
• 2016-08-15 Notice of intention to remove from inactive file given by Assembly Member Cooper.
• 2016-08-16 From inactive file.
• 2016-08-16 Ordered to third reading.
• 2016-08-18 Read third time and amended. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-18 Ordered to third reading.
• 2016-08-18 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2016-08-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (August 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-25 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6275.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-25 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2016-08-26 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). referral-committee
• 2016-08-26 From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 5448.) Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2016-08-27 Set for hearing August 29.
• 2016-08-29 From committee: That the Assembly amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 5501.) committee-passage
• 2016-08-30 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5532.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-09-08 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
• 2016-09-23 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-23 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 534, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/52df76d5-b113-483c-8ee5-674fd4a534d2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).