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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: "Recall and resentencing: incarcerated firefighters."
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description: "Existing law authorizes a court, on its own motion within 120 days of the date of the defendant's commitment, or at any time if the applicable sentencing laws have changed or upon a recommendation from the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Board of Parole Hearings, or the district attorney, to recall a defendant's sentence and resentence that defendant to a lesser 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 812"
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citation: "California AB 812 (20252026)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Recallandresentencing", "incarceratedfirefighters"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Lowenthal"]
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version_count: 9
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action_count: 28
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vote_count: 8
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first_action: "2025-02-19"
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last_action: "2025-10-13"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5a7c8d9c-8e49-4f9f-aa3a-829270e17bd2"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB812"
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source_hash: "a445b2393b70087533d27e5f7d2a89968cf40fca03bedaef4b020fda636c3670"
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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 812 (20252026) — Recall and resentencing: incarcerated firefighters.
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Existing law authorizes a court, on its own motion within 120 days of the date of the defendant's commitment, or at any time if the applicable sentencing laws have changed or upon a recommendation from the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Board of Parole Hearings, or the district attorney, to recall a defendant's sentence and resentence that defendant to a lesser 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. **02/19/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB812&version=20250AB81299INT)
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2. **03/27/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB812&version=20250AB81298AMD)
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3. **05/23/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB812&version=20250AB81297AMD)
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4. **07/10/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB812&version=20250AB81296AMD)
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5. **08/29/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB812&version=20250AB81295AMD)
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6. **09/05/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB812&version=20250AB81294AMD)
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7. **10/13/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB812&version=20250AB81292CHP)
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8. **AB812** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB812)
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9. **09/12/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB812&version=20250AB81293ENR)
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## Votes
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- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- AB 812 Lowenthal Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **57–5** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass as amended. — **11–1** (pass) · lower
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- AB 812 Lowenthal Assembly Third Reading — **57–4** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass as amended — **5–2** (pass) · upper
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- 3rd Reading AB812 Lowenthal et al. By Arreguín — **30–10** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **8–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–1** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Lowenthal — primary (person)
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- Elhawary — author (person)
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- Sharp-Collins — coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-02-19** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2025-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
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- **2025-03-03** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-26** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (March 25). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-27** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-03-28** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-04-23** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-05-23** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 51. Noes 16. Page 1644.)
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- **2025-05-23** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (May 23). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
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- **2025-05-23** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-06-04** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 57. Noes 4. Page 2058.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-06-05** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2025-06-18** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-07-09** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (July 8). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2025-07-10** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2025-08-18** In committee: Referred to 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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- **2025-09-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 10. Page 2655.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-09-09** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
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- **2025-09-10** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 57. Noes 5. Page 3215.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-09-22** 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 712, 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/5a7c8d9c-8e49-4f9f-aa3a-829270e17bd2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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