republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/ab-255.md

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Bill	Sexually violent predators: out-of-county placement.	Existing law generally requires a sexually violent predator who is conditionally released to be placed in the county that was the person's county of domicile prior to the person's incarceration. Existing law provides for placement outside of the county of domicile if specified circumstances exist. Existing law specifies certain information to be considered in determining the county of domicile, and provides that if that information cannot be identified or verified, that the county of domicile is the county in which the person was arrested for the crime for which he or she was last incarcerated in the state prison or from which he or she was last returned from parole.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 255	California AB 255 (20172018)	bill	Sexually violent predators: out-of-county placement.	enacted	Gallagher	5	18	0	2017-01-31	2017-07-10	openstates	ocd-bill/a016e3cb-a229-4bf0-b39c-5247f472ce05	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB255	156955bc1bc2f2e2bd1ecdf40fc69e71e8b68e5715f370275981c80c53b24b9f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 255 (20172018) — Sexually violent predators: out-of-county placement.

Existing law generally requires a sexually violent predator who is conditionally released to be placed in the county that was the person's county of domicile prior to the person's incarceration. Existing law provides for placement outside of the county of domicile if specified circumstances exist. Existing law specifies certain information to be considered in determining the county of domicile, and provides that if that information cannot be identified or verified, that the county of domicile is the county in which the person was arrested for the crime for which he or she was last incarcerated in the state prison or from which he or she was last returned from parole.

Version chain

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

1. 01/31/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/22/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/10/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB255 (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/21/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Sponsors

• Gallagher — primary (person)
• Kiley — coauthor (person)
• Nielsen — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-31 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2017-02-01 From printer. May be heard in committee March 3.
• 2017-02-13 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2017-03-21 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 14). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-03-22 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-03-23 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2017-04-05 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 5). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-04-06 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-04-20 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1143.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-04-20 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-05-10 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2017-06-13 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 13). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-06-14 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-06-19 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 1611.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-06-20 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2017-06-26 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
• 2017-07-10 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-07-10 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 39, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a016e3cb-a229-4bf0-b39c-5247f472ce05. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).