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Bill	County and city jails: incarcerated person contacts.	Existing law requires every person incarcerated in a state prison to be asked to provide contact information for specific circumstances, including for medical release of information and next of kin authorizing control over body and possessions in case of death. Existing law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to notify all persons covered by the medical release of information within 24 hours of a person incarcerated in a state prison being hospitalized for a serious or critical medical condition, as defined. Existing law requires the department to notify all persons covered by the medical release of information and next of kin within 24 hours of the death of a person incarcerated in state prison.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 1269	California AB 1269 (20252026)	bill	Countyandcityjails incarceratedpersoncontacts	enacted	Bryan	8	28	6	2025-02-21	2025-10-13	openstates	ocd-bill/5dec18aa-0bde-483b-a323-2903db4a47f9	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1269	7a39df4408bbee13a5f3de645232c02041317172c1733a08fb9925dcdce2ebf5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1269 (20252026) — County and city jails: incarcerated person contacts.

Existing law requires every person incarcerated in a state prison to be asked to provide contact information for specific circumstances, including for medical release of information and next of kin authorizing control over body and possessions in case of death. Existing law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to notify all persons covered by the medical release of information within 24 hours of a person incarcerated in a state prison being hospitalized for a serious or critical medical condition, as defined. Existing law requires the department to notify all persons covered by the medical release of information and next of kin within 24 hours of the death of a person incarcerated in state prison.

Version chain

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

1. 02/21/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/28/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/23/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/28/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/02/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/13/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1269 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/11/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1269 Bryan Assembly Third Reading — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1269 Bryan Concurrence - Urgency Added — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1269 Bryan et al. By Smallwood-Cuevas Urgency Clause — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 11–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bryan — primary (person)
• Bains — coauthor (person)
• Schultz — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-21 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2025-02-22 From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
• 2025-02-24 Read first time. reading-1
• 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
• 2025-04-09 Coauthors revised.
• 2025-04-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-04-23 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2025-05-23 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 51. Noes 16. Page 1644.)
• 2025-05-23 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 23). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2025-05-23 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-28 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1756.) amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-06-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2017.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-06-04 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-06-18 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2025-07-08 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-08-19 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2025-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-02 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-08 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2620.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-08 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-09-09 Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3118.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-16 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2025-10-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 726, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5dec18aa-0bde-483b-a323-2903db4a47f9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).