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type: "Bill"
title: "Criminal procedure: discrimination."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "SB 734"
citation: "California SB 734 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Criminalprocedure", "discrimination"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Caballero"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 33
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2025-02-21"
last_action: "2025-10-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dedeb0af-e7df-45a9-a926-fa03e40c80c8"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB734"
source_hash: "1a7e84a3c7a7c32bc657e2816380fa5ea6379b63c0c7d3abff877d4dfa06c567"
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 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](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB734&version=20250SB73499INT)
2. **03/24/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB734&version=20250SB73498AMD)
3. **04/02/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB734&version=20250SB73497AMD)
4. **05/08/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB734&version=20250SB73496AMD)
5. **08/26/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB734&version=20250SB73495AMD)
6. **09/04/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB734&version=20250SB73494AMD)
7. **10/13/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB734&version=20250SB73492CHP)
8. **SB734** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB734)
9. **09/12/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB734&version=20250SB73493ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **90** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **140** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **60** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading — **380** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading — **360** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB734 Caballero Concurrence — **400** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading SB734 Caballero Reconsider — **380** (pass) · upper
- SB 734 Caballero Senate Third Reading By Irwin — **760** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dedeb0af-e7df-45a9-a926-fa03e40c80c8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).