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Bill	Criminal procedure: resentencing.	Existing law authorizes a court, within 120 days after sentencing the defendant or at any time upon a recommendation from the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Board of Parole Hearings, the district attorney, to recall an inmate's sentence and resentence that inmate to a lesser sentence. Existing law requires the court, when resentencing, to apply the rules of the Judicial Council to eliminate disparity of sentences and promote uniformity of sentencing. Existing law authorizes a court to reduce a defendant's term of imprisonment and modify the judgment if it is in the interest of justice.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 1540	California AB 1540 (20212022)	bill	Criminal procedure: resentencing.	enacted	Ting	10	31	8	2021-02-19	2021-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/ea304fae-3d95-4a11-90cd-2c8a6e43d655	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1540	6e66efe0e9ec61dae782e7e048fcbc930ca23ed3d13da69bf6da2882b0996bea	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1540 (20212022) — Criminal procedure: resentencing.

Existing law authorizes a court, within 120 days after sentencing the defendant or at any time upon a recommendation from the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Board of Parole Hearings, the district attorney, to recall an inmate's sentence and resentence that inmate to a lesser sentence. Existing law requires the court, when resentencing, to apply the rules of the Judicial Council to eliminate disparity of sentences and promote uniformity of sentencing. Existing law authorizes a court to reduce a defendant's term of imprisonment and modify the judgment if it is in the interest of justice.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/11/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/22/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/22/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/12/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/26/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/03/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 10/08/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB1540 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/14/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1540 Ting et al. By Skinner — 23–9 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 12–4 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• AB 1540 Ting Assembly Third Reading — 53–20 (pass) · lower
• AB 1540 Ting Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 47–24 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Ting — primary (person)
• Quirk — 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
• 2021-03-11 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2021-03-11 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-03-15 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2021-04-22 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-04-26 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2021-04-28 Coauthors revised.
• 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 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-05-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (May 20). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-06-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 53. Noes 20. Page 1833.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-06-03 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-06-09 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2021-06-22 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. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-07-08 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (July 6). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-07-12 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-08-16 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-08-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 26). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2021-08-26 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-03 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 23. Noes 9. Page 2503.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-08 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2021-09-09 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 47. Noes 24. Page 3037.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2021-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 719, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ea304fae-3d95-4a11-90cd-2c8a6e43d655. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).