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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Criminal procedure: discrimination."
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description: "Existing law prohibits the state from seeking, obtaining, or imposing a criminal conviction or sentence on the basis of race, ethnicity, or national origin. Under existing law, a defendant may pursue relief for a violation of this prohibition by filing a motion pursuant to the provisions that prohibit this conduct, a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, or a motion to vacate a conviction or sentence."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20252026"
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identifier: "AB 1071"
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citation: "California AB 1071 (20252026)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Criminalprocedure", "discrimination"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Kalra"]
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version_count: 9
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action_count: 27
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vote_count: 7
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first_action: "2025-02-20"
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last_action: "2025-10-13"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5497100d-b260-4bc3-9d67-a9bdf112cd4c"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1071"
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source_hash: "1352f7b72b480102bd49d5e6230f41890b701dfc3a49890d5519dcea52843030"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 1071 (20252026) — Criminal procedure: discrimination.
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Existing law prohibits the state from seeking, obtaining, or imposing a criminal conviction or sentence on the basis of race, ethnicity, or national origin. Under existing law, a defendant may pursue relief for a violation of this prohibition by filing a motion pursuant to the provisions that prohibit this conduct, a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, or a motion to vacate a conviction or sentence.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/20/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1071&version=20250AB107199INT)
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2. **03/28/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1071&version=20250AB107198AMD)
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3. **06/13/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1071&version=20250AB107197AMD)
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4. **06/25/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1071&version=20250AB107196AMD)
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5. **08/29/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1071&version=20250AB107195AMD)
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6. **09/05/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1071&version=20250AB107194AMD)
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7. **10/13/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1071&version=20250AB107192CHP)
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8. **AB1071** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1071)
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9. **09/16/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1071&version=20250AB107193ENR)
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## Votes
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- 3rd Reading AB1071 Kalra By Arreguín — **25–11** (pass) · upper
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- AB 1071 Kalra Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **42–21** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass. — **7–2** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass as amended — **5–2** (pass) · upper
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- AB 1071 Kalra Assembly Third Reading — **48–16** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **4–1** (pass) · upper
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- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Kalra — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-02-20** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2025-02-21** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
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- **2025-03-10** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-28** 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-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-04-01** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-04-23** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (April 22). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-04-24** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-05-19** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 48. Noes 16. Page 1610.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-05-20** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2025-05-28** Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and APPR. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-06-13** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2025-06-24** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (June 24). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2025-06-25** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2025-07-02** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
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- **2025-07-14** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-08-29** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 29). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
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- **2025-08-29** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-09-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-09-05** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-09-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-09-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 25. Noes 11. Page 2896.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-09-12** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
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- **2025-09-13** Joint Rules 61(a)(14) and 51(a)(4) suspended. (Ayes 59. Noes 20. Page 3413.)
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- **2025-09-13** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 42. Noes 21. Page 3457.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-09-24** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
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- **2025-10-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2025-10-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 721, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5497100d-b260-4bc3-9d67-a9bdf112cd4c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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