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Bill	Criminal procedure: discrimination.	Existing law prohibits the state from seeking, obtaining, or imposing a criminal conviction or sentence on the basis of race, ethnicity, or national origin. Under existing law, a defendant may pursue relief for a violation of this prohibition by filing a motion pursuant to the provisions that prohibit this conduct, a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, or a motion to vacate a conviction or sentence.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 1071	California AB 1071 (20252026)	bill	Criminalprocedure discrimination	enacted	Kalra	9	27	7	2025-02-20	2025-10-13	openstates	ocd-bill/5497100d-b260-4bc3-9d67-a9bdf112cd4c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1071	1352f7b72b480102bd49d5e6230f41890b701dfc3a49890d5519dcea52843030	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1071 (20252026) — Criminal procedure: discrimination.

Existing law prohibits the state from seeking, obtaining, or imposing a criminal conviction or sentence on the basis of race, ethnicity, or national origin. Under existing law, a defendant may pursue relief for a violation of this prohibition by filing a motion pursuant to the provisions that prohibit this conduct, a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, or a motion to vacate a conviction or sentence.

Version chain

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

1. 02/20/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/28/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/13/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/25/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/29/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/05/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/13/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB1071 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/16/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB1071 Kalra By Arreguín — 25–11 (pass) · upper
• AB 1071 Kalra Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 42–21 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 7–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 1071 Kalra Assembly Third Reading — 48–16 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Kalra — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-20 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
• 2025-03-10 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2025-03-28 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
• 2025-04-01 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2025-04-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (April 22). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-19 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 48. Noes 16. Page 1610.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-05-20 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-05-28 Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and APPR. referral-committee
• 2025-06-13 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
• 2025-06-24 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (June 24). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-06-25 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-07-02 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2025-07-14 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2025-08-29 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 29). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2025-08-29 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-05 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 25. Noes 11. Page 2896.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-12 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-09-13 Joint Rules 61(a)(14) and 51(a)(4) suspended. (Ayes 59. Noes 20. Page 3413.)
• 2025-09-13 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 42. Noes 21. Page 3457.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-24 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2025-10-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 721, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5497100d-b260-4bc3-9d67-a9bdf112cd4c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).