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Bill	Plea bargaining: benefits of later enactments.	Existing law specifies the pleas that may be made to an indictment, information, or complaint charging a misdemeanor or infraction, including the pleas of guilty, not guilty, or nolo contendere. Existing law defines "plea bargaining" as any bargaining, negotiation, or discussion between a criminal defendant, or their counsel, and a prosecuting attorney or judge, whereby the defendant agrees to plead guilty or nolo contendere, in exchange for any promises, commitments, concessions, assurances, or consideration by the prosecuting attorney or judge relating to any charge against the defendant or to the sentencing of the defendant.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 1618	California AB 1618 (20192020)	bill	Plea bargaining: benefits of later enactments.	enacted	Jones-Sawyer	7	26	7	2019-02-22	2019-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/e2c7b618-cf2c-4f6f-a573-3f9484991182	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1618	fa0a43db0b74e75af3726d873d9a84dc5a2bfa32f87e236b21116eac9dc544c0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1618 (20192020) — Plea bargaining: benefits of later enactments.

Existing law specifies the pleas that may be made to an indictment, information, or complaint charging a misdemeanor or infraction, including the pleas of guilty, not guilty, or nolo contendere. Existing law defines "plea bargaining" as any bargaining, negotiation, or discussion between a criminal defendant, or their counsel, and a prosecuting attorney or judge, whereby the defendant agrees to plead guilty or nolo contendere, in exchange for any promises, commitments, concessions, assurances, or consideration by the prosecuting attorney or judge relating to any charge against the defendant or to the sentencing of the defendant.

Version chain

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

1. 02/22/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/11/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/13/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/05/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/08/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1618 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/18/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 13–5 (pass) · lower
• AB 1618 Jones-Sawyer Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 73–2 (pass) · lower
• AB 1618 Jones-Sawyer Assembly Third Reading — 55–19 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 12–2 (pass) · lower
• With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1618 Jones-Sawyer By Umberg — 36–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jones-Sawyer — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-22 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2019-02-23 From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
• 2019-02-25 Read first time. reading-1
• 2019-03-18 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2019-04-11 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-22 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2019-04-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 2.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-05-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 5.) (May 1). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-05-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 55. Noes 19. Page 1620.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-14 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-05-22 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2019-06-13 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. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2019-07-03 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (July 2). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-07-05 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-12 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2019-08-13 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-04 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 2. Page 2512.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-05 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 7 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2019-09-06 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2019-09-09 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 3192.)
• 2019-09-11 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (September 11). committee-passage
• 2019-09-12 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 73. Noes 2. Page 3474.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-25 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 586, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e2c7b618-cf2c-4f6f-a573-3f9484991182. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).