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Bill	Identification cards.	(1) Existing law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the Department of Motor Vehicles to ensure that any eligible inmate released from state prison has a valid identification card. Existing law defines "eligible inmate," in part, as a person who has previously held a California driver's license or identification card, who has a usable photo on file with the Department of Motor Vehicles that is not more than 10 years old, who has no outstanding fees due for a prior identification card, and who meets certain requirements, including that they have provided, and the Department of Motor Vehicles has verified, specified information, such as the inmate's true full name.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 629	California SB 629 (20212022)	bill	Identification cards.	enacted	Roth	5	30	8	2021-02-19	2021-10-07	openstates	ocd-bill/2ae069e6-41f5-4675-a5c1-52221762d985	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB629	cdd348d2a86ba5baff2a1b6f8ad5585f5cfae415041a5cf363ec9677f75ff7a9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 629 (20212022) — Identification cards.

(1) Existing law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the Department of Motor Vehicles to ensure that any eligible inmate released from state prison has a valid identification card. Existing law defines "eligible inmate," in part, as a person who has previously held a California driver's license or identification card, who has a usable photo on file with the Department of Motor Vehicles that is not more than 10 years old, who has no outstanding fees due for a prior identification card, and who meets certain requirements, including that they have provided, and the Department of Motor Vehicles has verified, specified information, such as the inmate's true full name.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 08/17/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 10/07/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. SB629 (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/07/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 15–1 (pass) · lower
• SB 629 Roth Senate Third Reading By Stone — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Transportation] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Transportation] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 14–1 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB629 Roth et al. Concurrence — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Consent Calendar SB629 — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 15–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Roth — primary (person)
• Gipson — coauthor (person)
• Medina — coauthor (person)
• Stone — principal coauthor (person)
• Villapudua — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-19 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2021-02-22 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
• 2021-02-22 Read first time. reading-1
• 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.)
• 2021-03-03 Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and TRANS. referral-committee
• 2021-03-09 Set for hearing April 6.
• 2021-04-06 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 690.) (April 6). Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-04-16 Set for hearing April 27.
• 2021-04-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0. Page 943.) (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 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2021-05-11 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-13 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1093.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-05-13 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2021-05-20 Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and TRANS. referral-committee
• 2021-06-15 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 15). Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-07-06 Coauthors revised.
• 2021-07-06 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 1.) (July 5). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-08-16 August 19 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2021-08-17 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-08-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 1.) (August 26). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-08-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-02 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2693.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-02 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2021-09-03 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2386.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1 p.m.
• 2021-10-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-10-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 645, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2ae069e6-41f5-4675-a5c1-52221762d985. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).