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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.

  1. 02/19/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
  2. 09/30/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
  3. AB1259 (committee substitute) — source
  4. 09/14/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

  • Placed on suspense file — 60 (pass) · upper
  • Do pass — 52 (pass) · upper
  • Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 41 (pass) · upper
  • Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 62 (pass) · lower
  • Do pass. — 124 (pass) · lower
  • AB 1259 Chiu Assembly Third Reading — 5319 (pass) · lower
  • 3rd Reading AB1259 Chiu et al. By Skinner — 2710 (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).