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Bill	Sentencing: resentencing to remove sentencing enhancements.	Prior law, in effect until January 1, 2020, required a sentencing court to impose an additional one-year term for each prior separate prison term or county jail felony term served by the defendant for a nonviolent felony, as specified. Prior law, in effect until January 1, 2018, required a sentencing court to impose on a defendant convicted of specified crimes relating to controlled substances, an additional 3-year term for each prior conviction of specified controlled substances crimes, including possession for sale of opiates, opium derivatives, and hallucinogenic substances, as specified. Existing law limits the imposition of these sentencing enhancements to certain specified circumstances.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 483	California SB 483 (20212022)	bill	Sentencing: resentencing to remove sentencing enhancements.	enacted	Allen	9	33	8	2021-02-17	2021-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/22373381-f159-42bf-8c1b-4c66e5150ea3	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB483	7de64f18aac9f6f308cbbb9d132c0cf69b7a6f45418d12284bc471d3e09bc783	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 483 (20212022) — Sentencing: resentencing to remove sentencing enhancements.

Prior law, in effect until January 1, 2020, required a sentencing court to impose an additional one-year term for each prior separate prison term or county jail felony term served by the defendant for a nonviolent felony, as specified. Prior law, in effect until January 1, 2018, required a sentencing court to impose on a defendant convicted of specified crimes relating to controlled substances, an additional 3-year term for each prior conviction of specified controlled substances crimes, including possession for sale of opiates, opium derivatives, and hallucinogenic substances, as specified. Existing law limits the imposition of these sentencing enhancements to certain specified circumstances.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/03/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/20/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/07/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/15/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/01/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/08/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. SB483 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/14/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB483 Allen Concurrence — 26–10 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 26–9 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 12–4 (pass) · lower
• SB 483 Allen Senate Third Reading By Bryan — 43–25 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Allen — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-17 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2021-02-18 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 20.
• 2021-02-22 Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
• 2021-02-22 (Ayes 32. Noes 4.)
• 2021-02-22 Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)
• 2021-02-25 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2021-03-03 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-03-11 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2021-03-26 Set for hearing April 27.
• 2021-04-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 941.) (April 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-04-30 Set for hearing May 10.
• 2021-05-10 May 10 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2021-05-14 Set for hearing May 20.
• 2021-05-20 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1193.) (May 20). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-20 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-06-02 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 26. Noes 9. Page 1376.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-06-02 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2021-06-10 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2021-07-07 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-07-14 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (July 13). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-07-15 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-08-19 August 19 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2021-08-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (August 26). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-08-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-01 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-01 Ordered to third reading.
• 2021-09-09 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 43. Noes 25. Page 3027.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-09 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2021-09-10 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 26. Noes 10. Page 2611.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-17 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
• 2021-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 728, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/22373381-f159-42bf-8c1b-4c66e5150ea3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).