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| Bill | Criminal procedure: motion to vacate. | Existing law allows a person who is no longer in criminal custody 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. | us/states/ca | California Legislature | 20212022 | AB 1259 | California AB 1259 (20212022) |
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California AB 1259 (20212022) — Criminal procedure: motion to vacate.
Existing law allows a person who is no longer in criminal custody 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.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- 02/19/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
- 09/30/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
- AB1259 (committee substitute) — source
- 09/14/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source
Votes
- Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
- Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–1 (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–2 (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — 12–4 (pass) · lower
- AB 1259 Chiu Assembly Third Reading — 53–19 (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1259 Chiu et al. By Skinner — 27–10 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Chiu — primary (person)
- Lorena Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2021-02-19 Introduced. To print.
introduction - 2021-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
- 2021-02-22 Read first time.
reading-1 - 2021-03-04 Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
referral-committee - 2021-04-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (April 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee - 2021-05-12 Coauthors revised.
- 2021-05-12 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (May 12).
committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable - 2021-05-13 Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
reading-1, reading-2 - 2021-05-24 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 53. Noes 19. Page 1543.)
passage, reading-1, reading-3 - 2021-05-25 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
reading-1 - 2021-06-03 Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
referral-committee - 2021-06-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee - 2021-07-05 In committee: Referred to suspense file.
referral-committee - 2021-08-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 26).
committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable - 2021-08-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
reading-1, reading-2 - 2021-09-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 10. Page 2565.).
passage, reading-1, reading-3 - 2021-09-09 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.
committee-passage - 2021-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- 2021-09-30 Approved by the Governor.
executive-signature - 2021-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 420, Statutes of 2021.
became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2af9f298-0c58-4e78-9cf3-5268bbbaa340. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).