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Bill	Recall and resentencing: incarcerated firefighters.	Existing law authorizes a court, on its own motion within 120 days of the date of the defendant's commitment, or at any time if the applicable sentencing laws have changed or upon a recommendation from the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Board of Parole Hearings, or the district attorney, to recall a defendant's sentence and resentence that defendant to a lesser sentence.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 812	California AB 812 (20252026)	bill	Recallandresentencing incarceratedfirefighters	enacted	Lowenthal	9	28	8	2025-02-19	2025-10-13	openstates	ocd-bill/5a7c8d9c-8e49-4f9f-aa3a-829270e17bd2	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB812	a445b2393b70087533d27e5f7d2a89968cf40fca03bedaef4b020fda636c3670	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 812 (20252026) — Recall and resentencing: incarcerated firefighters.

Existing law authorizes a court, on its own motion within 120 days of the date of the defendant's commitment, or at any time if the applicable sentencing laws have changed or upon a recommendation from the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Board of Parole Hearings, or the district attorney, to recall a defendant's sentence and resentence that defendant to a lesser sentence.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/27/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/23/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/10/25 - 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. AB812 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/12/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 812 Lowenthal Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 57–5 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 11–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 812 Lowenthal Assembly Third Reading — 57–4 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB812 Lowenthal et al. By Arreguín — 30–10 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Lowenthal — primary (person)
• Elhawary — author (person)
• Sharp-Collins — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-19 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2025-03-03 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2025-03-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (March 25). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-03-27 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-03-28 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. 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 1.) (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
• 2025-06-04 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 57. Noes 4. Page 2058.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-06-05 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-06-18 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2025-07-09 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (July 8). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-07-10 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-08-18 In committee: Referred to 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
• 2025-09-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 10. Page 2655.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-09-10 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 57. Noes 5. Page 3215.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-22 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 712, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5a7c8d9c-8e49-4f9f-aa3a-829270e17bd2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).