republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/ab-1448.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Elderly Parole Program."
description: "Existing law requires the Board of Parole Hearings to meet with an inmate during the 6th year prior to the inmate's minimum eligible parole release date to document the inmate's activities and conduct pertinent to parole eligibility. Existing law, the Victims' Bill of Rights Act of 2008: Marsy's Law, as added by Proposition 9 at the November 4, 2008, statewide general election, requires the panel, or the board if sitting en banc, to set a release date at the meeting, unless it determines that consideration of the public and victim's safety requires a more lengthy period of incarceration, and that a parole date cannot be fixed at the meeting. Existing law requires the board to schedule the next parole consideration hearing 15, 10, 7, 5, or 3 years after any hearing at which parole is denied. Existing law allows the board to advance a hearing set pursuant to these provisions to an earlier date when a change in circumstances or new information establishes a reasonable likelihood that consideration of the public and victim's safety does not require an additional period of incarceration."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 1448"
citation: "California AB 1448 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elderly Parole Program."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Weber"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 25
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-02-17"
last_action: "2017-10-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9070b91f-d6d8-4475-afc9-2322c6f4a85e"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1448"
source_hash: "c7b03b6d43ae7c9c098fd876f9ec6f59e16dd1b46e2c0b2f2f10b0d1b138852c"
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 AB 1448 (20172018) — Elderly Parole Program.

Existing law requires the Board of Parole Hearings to meet with an inmate during the 6th year prior to the inmate's minimum eligible parole release date to document the inmate's activities and conduct pertinent to parole eligibility. Existing law, the Victims' Bill of Rights Act of 2008: Marsy's Law, as added by Proposition 9 at the November 4, 2008, statewide general election, requires the panel, or the board if sitting en banc, to set a release date at the meeting, unless it determines that consideration of the public and victim's safety requires a more lengthy period of incarceration, and that a parole date cannot be fixed at the meeting. Existing law requires the board to schedule the next parole consideration hearing 15, 10, 7, 5, or 3 years after any hearing at which parole is denied. Existing law allows the board to advance a hearing set pursuant to these provisions to an earlier date when a change in circumstances or new information establishes a reasonable likelihood that consideration of the public and victim's safety does not require an additional period of incarceration.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/17/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1448&version=20170AB144899INT)
2. **03/28/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1448&version=20170AB144898AMD)
3. **05/18/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1448&version=20170AB144897AMD)
4. **05/30/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1448&version=20170AB144896AMD)
5. **09/06/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1448&version=20170AB144895AMD)
6. **10/11/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1448&version=20170AB144893CHP)
7. **AB1448** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1448)
8. **09/15/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1448&version=20170AB144894ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–2** (pass) · lower
- AB 1448 WEBER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **45–31** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **4–2** (pass) · upper
- AB 1448 WEBER Assembly Third Reading — **41–33** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **10–6** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1448 Weber By Skinner — **21–13** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Weber — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-17** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2017-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- **2017-03-27** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-28** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-03-29** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-05-10** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2017-05-17** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 6.) (May 17). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2017-05-18** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
- **2017-05-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-05-30** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1775.) `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2017-06-01** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 41. Noes 33. Page 2069.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-06-05** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2017-06-14** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2017-07-12** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (July 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-08-21** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2017-08-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-09-06** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2017-09-07** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-09-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 21. Noes 13. Page 2714.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-09-11** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 13 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2017-09-13** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 45. Noes 31. Page 3250.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2017-09-21** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2017-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-10-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 676, Statutes of 2017.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9070b91f-d6d8-4475-afc9-2322c6f4a85e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).