republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/sb-521.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public employment: disqualification."
description: "Existing law disqualifies a public employee, as defined, from any public employment for 5 years if the employee is convicted of any felony involving accepting or giving, or offering to give, a bribe, the embezzlement of public money, extortion or theft of public money, perjury, or conspiracy to commit any of those crimes arising directly out of their official duties."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "SB 521"
citation: "California SB 521 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Publicemployment", "disqualification"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gonzalez"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-02-19"
last_action: "2025-07-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5de2e298-d583-4af6-b547-3dd67818bdbf"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB521"
source_hash: "68e6c3594df87d00a4748e34e8d10cb3d6660e62127e151db8e09956977d7661"
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 521 (20252026) — Public employment: disqualification.

Existing law disqualifies a public employee, as defined, from any public employment for 5 years if the employee is convicted of any felony involving accepting or giving, or offering to give, a bribe, the embezzlement of public money, extortion or theft of public money, perjury, or conspiracy to commit any of those crimes arising directly out of their official duties.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/19/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB521&version=20250SB52199INT)
2. **03/26/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB521&version=20250SB52198AMD)
3. **04/24/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB521&version=20250SB52197AMD)
4. **07/30/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB521&version=20250SB52195CHP)
5. **SB521** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB521)
6. **07/16/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB521&version=20250SB52196ENR)

## Votes

- SB 521 Gonzalez Consent Calendar Second Day — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gonzalez — primary (person)
- Arreguín — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-19** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-02-20** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
- **2025-02-26** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-26** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Set for hearing April 23.
- **2025-04-23** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 870.) (April 23). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-24** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-29** Set for hearing May 5.
- **2025-05-05** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2025-05-06** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-05-08** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 1050.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-05-08** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-29** Referred to Com. on P. E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-25** Coauthors revised.
- **2025-06-25** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-02** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (July 2). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-07-03** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-07-14** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2539.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-07-14** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2025-07-18** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
- **2025-07-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-07-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 92, 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/5de2e298-d583-4af6-b547-3dd67818bdbf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).