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type: "Bill"
title: "Convictions: expungement: incarcerated individual hand crews."
description: "Existing law authorizes a court to allow a defendant sentenced to county jail for a felony to withdraw their plea of guilty or plea of nolo contendere and enter a plea of not guilty, after the lapse of one or 2 years following the defendant's completion of the sentence, provided that the defendant is not under supervision, and is not serving a sentence for, on probation for, or charged with the commission of any offense. Existing law requires the defendant to be released from all penalties and disabilities resulting from the offense of which the defendant was convicted, except as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 2147"
citation: "California AB 2147 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Convictions: expungement: incarcerated individual hand crews."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Reyes"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 25
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2020-02-10"
last_action: "2020-09-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0780bbb1-f592-4ac9-b3cb-4855735230c5"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2147"
source_hash: "a92652cf94b5aea764404ee49461884bfdef2cb199e3a43f79002848ccd7ada6"
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 2147 (20192020) — Convictions: expungement: incarcerated individual hand crews.
Existing law authorizes a court to allow a defendant sentenced to county jail for a felony to withdraw their plea of guilty or plea of nolo contendere and enter a plea of not guilty, after the lapse of one or 2 years following the defendant's completion of the sentence, provided that the defendant is not under supervision, and is not serving a sentence for, on probation for, or charged with the commission of any offense. Existing law requires the defendant to be released from all penalties and disabilities resulting from the offense of which the defendant was convicted, except as specified.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/10/20 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2147&version=20190AB214799INT)
2. **06/10/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2147&version=20190AB214798AMD)
3. **08/03/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2147&version=20190AB214797AMD)
4. **08/25/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2147&version=20190AB214796AMD)
5. **09/11/20 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2147&version=20190AB214794CHP)
6. **AB2147** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2147)
7. **09/01/20 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2147&version=20190AB214795ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass — **52** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **52** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **51** (pass) · upper
- AB 2147 Reyes Assembly Third Reading — **540** (pass) · lower
- AB 2147 Reyes Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **5112** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB2147 Reyes et al. By Bradford — **300** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **115** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Reyes — primary (person)
- Bonta — principal coauthor (person)
- Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Chiu — principal coauthor (person)
- Eduardo Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Friedman — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — coauthor (person)
- Gonzalez — principal coauthor (person)
- Holden — coauthor (person)
- Jones-Sawyer — principal coauthor (person)
- Kalra — principal coauthor (person)
- Kamlager — coauthor (person)
- Limón — coauthor (person)
- Mark Stone — coauthor (person)
- McCarty — principal coauthor (person)
- Robert Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Santiago — coauthor (person)
- Voepel — coauthor (person)
- Weber — principal coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-02-10** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2020-02-11** From printer. May be heard in committee March 12.
- **2020-02-20** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-16** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2020-05-20** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (May 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-06-02** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-03** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 5.) (June 3). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2020-06-04** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-06-10** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 4747.) `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-06-15** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 54. Noes 0. Page 4856.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-06-16** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2020-07-01** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2020-08-01** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (July 31). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-08-03** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-08-13** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2020-08-20** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 20). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2020-08-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-08-25** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-08-26** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-08-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 0.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-08-30** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2020-08-30** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 51. Noes 12. Page 5384.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-09-10** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
- **2020-09-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2020-09-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 60, Statutes of 2020.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0780bbb1-f592-4ac9-b3cb-4855735230c5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).