republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/ab-2867.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Criminal procedure: postconviction relief."
description: "Existing law creates an explicit right for a person no longer imprisoned or restrained to file a motion to vacate a conviction or sentence based on a prejudicial error damaging to the moving party's ability to meaningfully understand, defend against, or knowingly accept the actual or potential adverse immigration consequences of a plea of guilty or nolo contendere, or based on newly discovered evidence of actual innocence, as specified. Under existing law, a defendant who files one of these motions is entitled to a hearing. Existing law authorizes the court, at the request of the moving party, to hold the hearing without the personal presence of the moving party if counsel for the moving party is present and the court finds good cause as to why the moving party cannot be present."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 2867"
citation: "California AB 2867 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Criminal procedure: postconviction relief."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gonzalez Fletcher"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 22
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2018-02-16"
last_action: "2018-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/97401b7e-3e21-4dc6-88a6-52e60d95edfe"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2867"
source_hash: "a446b976048f7eee97f89ef72620118bb42a1621f0d1209e8b95abea364ab669"
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 AB 2867 (20172018) — Criminal procedure: postconviction relief.

Existing law creates an explicit right for a person no longer imprisoned or restrained to file a motion to vacate a conviction or sentence based on a prejudicial error damaging to the moving party's ability to meaningfully understand, defend against, or knowingly accept the actual or potential adverse immigration consequences of a plea of guilty or nolo contendere, or based on newly discovered evidence of actual innocence, as specified. Under existing law, a defendant who files one of these motions is entitled to a hearing. Existing law authorizes the court, at the request of the moving party, to hold the hearing without the personal presence of the moving party if counsel for the moving party is present and the court finds good cause as to why the moving party cannot be present.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/16/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2867&version=20170AB286799INT)
2. **03/22/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2867&version=20170AB286798AMD)
3. **04/05/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2867&version=20170AB286797AMD)
4. **04/23/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2867&version=20170AB286796AMD)
5. **06/04/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2867&version=20170AB286795AMD)
6. **06/14/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2867&version=20170AB286794AMD)
7. **09/27/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2867&version=20170AB286792CHP)
8. **AB2867** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2867)
9. **08/22/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2867&version=20170AB286793ENR)

## Votes

- AB 2867 GONZALEZ FLETCHER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **60–9** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB2867 Gonzalez Fletcher By Lara — **29–4** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- AB 2867 GONZALEZ FLETCHER Assembly Third Reading — **59–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **5–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gonzalez Fletcher — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2018-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
- **2018-03-22** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-22** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-04-02** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-05** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-04-09** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-10** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (April 10). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-04-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-04-23** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 4820.) `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2018-04-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 59. Noes 1. Page 4932.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-04-30** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2018-05-10** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-04** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction`
- **2018-06-13** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 12). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2018-06-14** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
- **2018-08-13** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 4. Page 5293.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-08-14** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 16 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2018-08-20** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 60. Noes 9. Page 6376.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2018-08-27** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2018-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2018-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 825, Statutes of 2018.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/97401b7e-3e21-4dc6-88a6-52e60d95edfe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).