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Bill	Criminal procedure: discrimination.	Existing law, the Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights Act, grants certain employment rights to public safety officers, as defined. The act prohibits, among other things, any punitive action against a public safety officer, denial of promotion on grounds other than merit, or threat of such treatment, because of the lawful exercise of the rights granted under the act, or the exercise of any rights under any existing administrative grievance procedure.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	SB 734	California SB 734 (20252026)	bill	Criminalprocedure discrimination	enacted	Caballero	9	33	8	2025-02-21	2025-10-13	openstates	ocd-bill/dedeb0af-e7df-45a9-a926-fa03e40c80c8	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB734	1a7e84a3c7a7c32bc657e2816380fa5ea6379b63c0c7d3abff877d4dfa06c567	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 734 (20252026) — Criminal procedure: discrimination.

Existing law, the Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights Act, grants certain employment rights to public safety officers, as defined. The act prohibits, among other things, any punitive action against a public safety officer, denial of promotion on grounds other than merit, or threat of such treatment, because of the lawful exercise of the rights granted under the act, or the exercise of any rights under any existing administrative grievance procedure.

Version chain

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

1. 02/21/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/24/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/02/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/08/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/26/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/04/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/13/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. SB734 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/12/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB734 Caballero Concurrence — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading SB734 Caballero Reconsider — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 734 Caballero Senate Third Reading By Irwin — 76–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Caballero — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-21 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2025-02-24 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
• 2025-02-24 Read first time. reading-1
• 2025-03-12 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2025-03-18 Set for hearing April 1.
• 2025-03-24 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
• 2025-04-01 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 612.) (April 1). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-02 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-04-04 Set for hearing April 21.
• 2025-04-21 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2025-04-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-08 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-05-08 Ordered to second reading.
• 2025-05-12 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-28 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1271.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-05-28 Motion to reconsider made by Senator Caballero.
• 2025-05-28 Reconsideration granted. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1271.)
• 2025-05-28 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 1272.) 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
• 2025-06-17 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-07-02 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (July 2). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-07-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-08-26 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-08-26 Ordered to third reading.
• 2025-09-04 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-04 Ordered to third reading.
• 2025-09-08 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2977.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-08 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2025-09-09 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2733.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-17 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2025-10-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 784, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/dedeb0af-e7df-45a9-a926-fa03e40c80c8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).