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type: "Bill"
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title: "Prisons: clearances."
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description: "Existing law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to conduct rehabilitative programming in a manner that meets specified requirements, including minimizing program wait times and offering a variety of program opportunities to inmates regardless of security level or sentence length. Existing law establishes various clearance levels for program providers in state prisons, including short-term clearance, annual program provider clearance, and statewide program provider clearance, as defined. Existing law establishes a procedure for a program provider to receive one of these clearances and an identification card to gain entry into the state prison and requires the department to provide state prisons with forms for program providers to obtain the clearances."
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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: "SB 553"
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citation: "California SB 553 (20252026)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Prisons", "clearances"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Cortese"]
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version_count: 5
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action_count: 25
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vote_count: 8
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first_action: "2025-02-20"
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last_action: "2025-10-01"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f14821bf-b6c8-4a77-bed8-844eb76f11b7"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB553"
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source_hash: "01eab6cb47fcf6fdbc12e15d40b22f677d94f61650b2c413e73ef185495f3876"
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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 SB 553 (20252026) — Prisons: clearances.
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Existing law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to conduct rehabilitative programming in a manner that meets specified requirements, including minimizing program wait times and offering a variety of program opportunities to inmates regardless of security level or sentence length. Existing law establishes various clearance levels for program providers in state prisons, including short-term clearance, annual program provider clearance, and statewide program provider clearance, as defined. Existing law establishes a procedure for a program provider to receive one of these clearances and an identification card to gain entry into the state prison and requires the department to provide state prisons with forms for program providers to obtain the clearances.
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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=202520260SB553&version=20250SB55399INT)
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2. **09/02/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB553&version=20250SB55398AMD)
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3. **10/01/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB553&version=20250SB55396CHP)
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4. **SB553** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB553)
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5. **09/18/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB553&version=20250SB55397ENR)
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## Votes
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- Special Consent — **38–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass as amended. — **11–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **6–0** (pass) · upper
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- Unfinished Business SB553 Cortese Concurrence — **37–0** (pass) · upper
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- Placed on suspense file — **6–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass — **6–0** (pass) · upper
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- SB 553 Cortese Senate Third Reading By Sharp-Collins — **80–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **9–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Cortese — 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** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
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- **2025-02-21** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
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- **2025-03-05** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-18** Set for hearing April 1.
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- **2025-04-01** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 612.) (April 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2025-04-04** Set for hearing April 21.
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- **2025-04-21** April 21 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
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- **2025-05-16** Set for hearing May 23.
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- **2025-05-23** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1204.) (May 23). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-05-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-05-27** Ordered to special consent calendar.
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- **2025-05-29** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1327.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-05-29** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
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- **2025-06-05** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-06-17** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2025-07-09** July 9 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
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- **2025-08-29** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (August 29). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-09-02** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-09-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-09-12** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 3393.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-09-12** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
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- **2025-09-13** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 3024.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-09-23** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
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- **2025-10-01** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2025-10-01** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 226, 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/f14821bf-b6c8-4a77-bed8-844eb76f11b7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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