republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/sb-831.md

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Bill	Agricultural workers: immigration: parole.	Existing federal law, the Immigration and Nationality Act, makes certain aliens ineligible to receive visas and ineligible to be admitted into the United States, except as specified. The act authorizes the United States Attorney General to parole into the United States, on a case-by-case basis for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit, any alien applying for admission to the United States, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 831	California SB 831 (20232024)	bill	Agricultural workers immigration parole	enacted	Caballero	6	28	9	2023-02-17	2023-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/1b8f86a6-285b-4250-a990-7184ee4ea93c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB831	b1ee21629aae9e9bc29cd331e58cb4490982fdd8edbb98351447a30289dd03b4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 831 (20232024) — Agricultural workers: immigration: parole.

Existing federal law, the Immigration and Nationality Act, makes certain aliens ineligible to receive visas and ineligible to be admitted into the United States, except as specified. The act authorizes the United States Attorney General to parole into the United States, on a case-by-case basis for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit, any alien applying for admission to the United States, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/22/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 09/01/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/08/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. SB831 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/19/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended. — 12–2 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB831 Caballero Concurrence — 34–5 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 831 Caballero Senate Third Reading By Garcia — 65–11 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 34–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety] — 4–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Caballero — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-17 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2023-02-21 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 20.
• 2023-03-01 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2023-03-22 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
• 2023-03-29 Re-referred to Coms. on HUMAN S. and PUB S. referral-committee
• 2023-04-11 Set for hearing April 17.
• 2023-04-11 Set for hearing April 25 in PUB S. pending receipt.
• 2023-04-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB S. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 749.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on PUB S. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-04-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 902.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-05-01 Set for hearing May 8.
• 2023-05-08 May 8 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2023-05-12 Set for hearing May 18.
• 2023-05-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1185.) (May 18). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-30 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 34. Noes 2. Page 1351.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-31 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2023-06-15 Referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2023-07-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-08-16 August 16 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2023-09-01 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 2.) (September 1). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-14 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 65. Noes 11. Page 3520.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-14 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2023-09-14 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 34. Noes 5. Page 2830.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-21 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2023-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 636, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1b8f86a6-285b-4250-a990-7184ee4ea93c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).