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Bill	Corrections and rehabilitation: state policy.	Under existing law, the Legislature finds and declares that the purpose of sentencing is public safety achieved through punishment, rehabilitation, and restorative justice, and that programs should be available for incarcerated persons, including educational, rehabilitative, and restorative justice programs that are designed to promote behavioral change and to prepare all incarcerated persons for successful reentry into the community. Existing law directs the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to maintain a mission statement consistent with these principles.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	SB 551	California SB 551 (20252026)	bill	Correctionsandrehabilitation statepolicy	enacted	Cortese	6	25	6	2025-02-20	2025-10-01	openstates	ocd-bill/a716e559-876d-4d7c-a174-53f7448e9354	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB551	3baa88b8c3390aeabe9fbbb02ac7490bb766cb8daf5e281b2759c38492c1bcd3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 551 (20252026) — Corrections and rehabilitation: state policy.

Under existing law, the Legislature finds and declares that the purpose of sentencing is public safety achieved through punishment, rehabilitation, and restorative justice, and that programs should be available for incarcerated persons, including educational, rehabilitative, and restorative justice programs that are designed to promote behavioral change and to prepare all incarcerated persons for successful reentry into the community. Existing law directs the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to maintain a mission statement consistent with these principles.

Version chain

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

1. 02/20/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/24/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/10/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/01/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. SB551 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/12/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 11–4 (pass) · lower
• SB 551 Cortese Senate Third Reading By Schultz — 57–20 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–2 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading SB551 Cortese et al. — 28–10 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB551 Cortese et al. Concurrence — 30–9 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Cortese — primary (person)
• Becker — coauthor (person)
• Schultz — coauthor (person)
• Umberg — coauthor (person)
• Weber Pierson — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-20 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2025-02-21 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
• 2025-03-05 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2025-03-24 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 PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2025-04-09 Set for hearing April 22.
• 2025-04-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 841.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-04-25 Set for hearing May 5.
• 2025-05-05 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2025-05-06 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-28 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 28. Noes 10. Page 1293.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-05-28 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2025-06-05 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2025-06-10 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-06-17 Coauthors revised.
• 2025-06-17 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-07-16 July 16 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2025-08-29 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (August 29). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-03 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 57. Noes 20. Page 2868.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-03 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2025-09-09 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 30. Noes 9. Page 2706.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-17 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2025-10-01 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-01 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 225, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a716e559-876d-4d7c-a174-53f7448e9354. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).