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type: "Bill"
title: "Peace officers: deputy sheriffs."
description: "Existing law establishes categories of peace officers with varying powers and authority to make arrests and carry firearms. Under existing law, in certain counties, including the Counties of Butte and Calaveras, a deputy sheriff, who is employed to perform duties exclusively or initially relating to custodial assignments with responsibilities for maintaining the operations of county custodial facilities, is a peace officer whose authority extends to any place in the state only while engaged in the performance of the duties of the officer's employment and for the purpose of carrying out the primary function of employment relating to the officer's custodial assignments, or when performing other law enforcement duties directed by the officer's employing agency during a local state of emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "SB 229"
citation: "California SB 229 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Peaceofficers", "deputysheriffs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alvarado-Gil"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-01-28"
last_action: "2025-07-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f583b01c-aa2f-4790-9dc1-7540c98d82ef"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB229"
source_hash: "31e1419e4dab5bf03f6ba6f28866a438a05a6e7a0ab5534cd2117f0aaffecfe1"
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 229 (20252026) — Peace officers: deputy sheriffs.
Existing law establishes categories of peace officers with varying powers and authority to make arrests and carry firearms. Under existing law, in certain counties, including the Counties of Butte and Calaveras, a deputy sheriff, who is employed to perform duties exclusively or initially relating to custodial assignments with responsibilities for maintaining the operations of county custodial facilities, is a peace officer whose authority extends to any place in the state only while engaged in the performance of the duties of the officer's employment and for the purpose of carrying out the primary function of employment relating to the officer's custodial assignments, or when performing other law enforcement duties directed by the officer's employing agency during a local state of emergency.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **01/28/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB229&version=20250SB22999INT)
2. **07/14/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB229&version=20250SB22997CHP)
3. **SB229** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB229)
4. **06/25/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB229&version=20250SB22998ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **90** (pass) · lower
- SB 229 Alvarado-Gil Consent Calendar Second Day — **710** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **60** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar 2nd SB229 Alvarado-Gil — **340** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Alvarado-Gil — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-28** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-01-29** From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 28.
- **2025-02-05** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-07** Set for hearing March 25.
- **2025-03-25** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 533.) (March 25). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-26** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-03-28** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 584.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-03-28** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-12** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-17** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 17). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-18** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-06-23** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 2248.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-06-23** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2025-07-03** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:15 a.m.
- **2025-07-14** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-07-14** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 51, 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/f583b01c-aa2f-4790-9dc1-7540c98d82ef`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).