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Bill	Prisons: death benefit for incarcerated firefighters.	Existing law establishes the California Conservation Camps for the purpose of having incarcerated persons work on projects supervised by the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. Existing law requires the department to utilize incarcerated persons assigned to conservation camps in performing fire prevention, fire control, and other work of the department. Existing law allows an incarcerated individual, as specified, who has successfully participated in either a California Conservation Camp program or a county program as an incarcerated individual hand crew member, as determined by specified authorities, and has been released from custody, to file a petition for relief with a court.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 799	California AB 799 (20252026)	bill	Prisons deathbenefitforincarceratedfirefighters	enacted	Celeste Rodriguez	6	22	8	2025-02-18	2025-10-13	openstates	ocd-bill/ecc09094-79f8-46ad-ac29-0e9ac28618e1	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB799	06caf2c67c2a5a839a5c610afd58cd87b1892ec9032c178718f8d428836a3c14	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 799 (20252026) — Prisons: death benefit for incarcerated firefighters.

Existing law establishes the California Conservation Camps for the purpose of having incarcerated persons work on projects supervised by the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. Existing law requires the department to utilize incarcerated persons assigned to conservation camps in performing fire prevention, fire control, and other work of the department. Existing law allows an incarcerated individual, as specified, who has successfully participated in either a California Conservation Camp program or a county program as an incarcerated individual hand crew member, as determined by specified authorities, and has been released from custody, to file a petition for relief with a court.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/29/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/29/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/13/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB799 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/16/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 799 Celeste Rodriguez Consent Calendar Second Day — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent AB799 Celeste Rodriguez By Smallwood-Cuevas — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 799 Celeste Rodriguez Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 6–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Celeste Rodriguez — primary (person)
• Bryan — coauthor (person)
• Elhawary — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-18 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2025-03-03 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2025-03-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (March 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-04-23 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 23). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-24 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1387.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-05-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-05-14 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2025-05-29 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
• 2025-06-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-06-23 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2025-08-29 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (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
• 2025-09-09 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2025-09-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2930.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-12 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-09-12 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 3382.). 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 711, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ecc09094-79f8-46ad-ac29-0e9ac28618e1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).