republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/sb-459.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Peace officers: confidential communications: exceptions: group peer support services."
description: "Existing law, the Law Enforcement Peer Support and Crisis Referral Services Program, authorizes a local or regional law enforcement agency to establish a peer support and crisis referral program to provide an agencywide network of peer representatives available to aid fellow employees on emotional or professional issues. Under existing law, a law enforcement personnel has a right to refuse to disclose, and to prevent another from disclosing, a confidential communication, as defined, between the law enforcement personnel and a peer support team member while the peer support team member was providing peer support services, or a confidential communication made to a crisis hotline or crisis referral service. Existing law authorizes a confidential communication to be disclosed under specified circumstances, including a criminal proceeding."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "SB 459"
citation: "California SB 459 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Peaceofficers", "confidentialcommunications", "exceptions", "grouppeersupportservices"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Grayson"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 23
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2025-02-19"
last_action: "2025-10-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/05ac4ccb-d32c-461d-ad2f-d3b7058fae17"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB459"
source_hash: "6aa623ee9344b33f86d79687b6d6eecdc80dde3dde948fb1003ab1665cfd2566"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California SB 459 (20252026) — Peace officers: confidential communications: exceptions: group peer support services.

Existing law, the Law Enforcement Peer Support and Crisis Referral Services Program, authorizes a local or regional law enforcement agency to establish a peer support and crisis referral program to provide an agencywide network of peer representatives available to aid fellow employees on emotional or professional issues. Under existing law, a law enforcement personnel has a right to refuse to disclose, and to prevent another from disclosing, a confidential communication, as defined, between the law enforcement personnel and a peer support team member while the peer support team member was providing peer support services, or a confidential communication made to a crisis hotline or crisis referral service. Existing law authorizes a confidential communication to be disclosed under specified circumstances, including a criminal proceeding.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/19/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB459&version=20250SB45999INT)
2. **05/08/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB459&version=20250SB45998AMD)
3. **06/18/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB459&version=20250SB45997AMD)
4. **06/26/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB459&version=20250SB45996AMD)
5. **10/07/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB459&version=20250SB45994CHP)
6. **SB459** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB459)
7. **08/27/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB459&version=20250SB45995ENR)

## Votes

- Special Consent — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **12–0** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 459 Grayson Consent Calendar Second Day — **72–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **9–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Grayson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-19** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-02-20** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
- **2025-02-26** Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18** Set for hearing April 1.
- **2025-04-01** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 611.) (April 1). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** Set for hearing May 6.
- **2025-05-07** From committee: Do pass as amended. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0. Page 1027.) (May 6). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-08** Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-05-15** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 1090.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-05-15** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2025-06-09** Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-17** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 17). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-18** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-26** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-02** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (July 1). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-07-03** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-07-10** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 2508.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-07-10** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2025-08-21** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2025-08-25** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2253.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-09-02** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
- **2025-10-07** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-10-07** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 456, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/05ac4ccb-d32c-461d-ad2f-d3b7058fae17`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).