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Bill	Public employment: disqualification.	Existing law disqualifies a public employee, as defined, from any public employment for 5 years if the employee is convicted of any felony involving accepting or giving, or offering to give, a bribe, the embezzlement of public money, extortion or theft of public money, perjury, or conspiracy to commit any of those crimes arising directly out of their official duties.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	SB 521	California SB 521 (20252026)	bill	Publicemployment disqualification	enacted	Gonzalez	6	23	5	2025-02-19	2025-07-30	openstates	ocd-bill/5de2e298-d583-4af6-b547-3dd67818bdbf	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB521	68e6c3594df87d00a4748e34e8d10cb3d6660e62127e151db8e09956977d7661	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 521 (20252026) — Public employment: disqualification.

Existing law disqualifies a public employee, as defined, from any public employment for 5 years if the employee is convicted of any felony involving accepting or giving, or offering to give, a bribe, the embezzlement of public money, extortion or theft of public money, perjury, or conspiracy to commit any of those crimes arising directly out of their official duties.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/26/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/24/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/30/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. SB521 (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/16/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• SB 521 Gonzalez Consent Calendar Second Day — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar 2nd — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Gonzalez — primary (person)
• Arreguín — coauthor (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 Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2025-03-26 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-04-02 Re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. referral-committee
• 2025-04-04 Set for hearing April 23.
• 2025-04-23 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 870.) (April 23). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-24 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-04-29 Set for hearing May 5.
• 2025-05-05 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2025-05-06 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-08 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 1050.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-05-08 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2025-05-29 Referred to Com. on P. E. & R. referral-committee
• 2025-06-25 Coauthors revised.
• 2025-06-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-07-02 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (July 2). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-07-03 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-07-14 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2539.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-07-14 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2025-07-18 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
• 2025-07-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-07-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 92, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5de2e298-d583-4af6-b547-3dd67818bdbf. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).