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Bill	Pretrial release: risk assessment tools.	Existing law, beginning October 1, 2019, and stayed pending voter approval under the powers of referendum pursuant to the California Constitution, requires Pretrial Assessment Services, as defined, to assess a person arrested or detained, as specified, according to a risk assessment instrument, as defined. Existing law requires Pretrial Assessment Services to release from confinement specified individuals based on that risk assessment, and, if the person is not released, to submit that assessment to the court for use in its pretrial release or detention decision.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	SB 36	California SB 36 (20192020)	bill	Pretrial release: risk assessment tools.	enacted	Hertzberg	7	27	6	2018-12-03	2019-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/78c9adf1-add1-4555-af06-abddfd281ea3	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB36	6f3d2276018c7b62a40b5a529a5ea278ac76afae68e1ba429932573886ca10e3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 36 (20192020) — Pretrial release: risk assessment tools.

Existing law, beginning October 1, 2019, and stayed pending voter approval under the powers of referendum pursuant to the California Constitution, requires Pretrial Assessment Services, as defined, to assess a person arrested or detained, as specified, according to a risk assessment instrument, as defined. Existing law requires Pretrial Assessment Services to release from confinement specified individuals based on that risk assessment, and, if the person is not released, to submit that assessment to the court for use in its pretrial release or detention decision.

Version chain

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

1. 12/03/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/13/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/04/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/06/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/08/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB36 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/13/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 36 Hertzberg Senate Third Reading By Weber — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading SB36 Hertzberg et al. — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB36 Hertzberg et al. Concurrence — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Hertzberg — primary (person)
• Allen — coauthor (person)
• Beall — coauthor (person)
• Bonta — principal coauthor (person)
• Bradford — coauthor (person)
• Mitchell — author (person)
• Wieckowski — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-12-03 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2018-12-04 From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 3.
• 2019-01-16 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2019-02-28 Set for hearing March 26.
• 2019-03-13 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-03-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 439.) (March 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-03-29 Set for hearing April 8.
• 2019-04-08 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2019-04-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-04-25 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 817.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-04-25 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2019-05-09 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2019-06-04 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-06-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-06-19 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (June 19). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-06-20 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-06-20 From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Calderon.
• 2019-06-20 Ordered to third reading.
• 2019-09-06 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-06 Ordered to third reading.
• 2019-09-10 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3250.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-10 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2019-09-11 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2019-09-11 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2865.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-18 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2019-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 589, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/78c9adf1-add1-4555-af06-abddfd281ea3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).