republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/sb-141.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Parole: sexually violent offenses: validated risk assessment."
description: "Existing law grants the Board of Parole Hearings the power to grant parole to prisoners."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "SB 141"
citation: "California SB 141 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Parole: sexually violent offenses: validated risk assessment."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bates"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 27
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-01-17"
last_action: "2019-09-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4d09a26e-6ac5-4192-b088-5950cc04333e"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB141"
source_hash: "269fd1c86e266e3ac7558105f872844d6f2db0374cc5e3713f5efa94c66da541"
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 141 (20192020) — Parole: sexually violent offenses: validated risk assessment.

Existing law grants the Board of Parole Hearings the power to grant parole to prisoners.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/17/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB141&version=20190SB14199INT)
2. **04/11/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB141&version=20190SB14198AMD)
3. **07/01/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB141&version=20190SB14197AMD)
4. **09/05/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB141&version=20190SB14195CHP)
5. **SB141** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB141)
6. **08/23/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB141&version=20190SB14196ENR)

## Votes

- Special Consent SB141 — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 141 Bates Senate Third Reading By Lackey — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading SB141 Bates et al. — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **8–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bates — primary (person)
- Chang — coauthor (person)
- Jones — coauthor (person)
- Lackey — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-17** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-01-18** From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 17.
- **2019-01-31** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-14** Set for hearing April 2.
- **2019-04-02** April 2 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2019-04-04** Set for hearing April 9.
- **2019-04-11** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 623.) (April 9). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2019-04-11** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-18** Set for hearing April 29.
- **2019-04-29** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2019-04-30** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-06** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 958.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-07** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2019-05-16** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-11** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-19** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (June 19). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-06-20** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-06-24** From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Bonta.
- **2019-07-01** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-07-01** Ordered to third reading.
- **2019-08-12** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2668.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-08-12** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2019-08-19** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2019-08-22** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2242.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-08-27** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2019-09-05** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-09-05** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 242, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4d09a26e-6ac5-4192-b088-5950cc04333e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).