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SB 553STATE · CaliforniaIntroduced

Prisons: clearances.

Voted 10/1/2025View source

Summary

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. This bill would expand these provisions to allow legal professionals and attorney support personnel, as defined, to apply for these clearances. The bill would revise the names of these clearances to annual gate clearances and short-term gate clearances. The bill would also require the department to, upon request, give a short-term gate clearance for any institution without the requirement to apply for a long-term gate clearance to specified individuals, including, among others, the Governor and all cabinet members, members of the Legislature and their staff, and current judges of the state.

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Roll-call record

How representatives voted

79 yea·0 nay

Docket history

Action history

  1. 10/1/2025Approved by the Governor.
  2. 10/1/2025Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 226, Statutes of 2025.
  3. 9/23/2025Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
  4. 9/13/2025Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 3024.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
  5. 9/12/2025Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 3393.) Ordered to the Senate.
  6. 9/12/2025In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
  7. 9/3/2025Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
  8. 9/2/2025Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
  9. 8/29/2025From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (August 29).
  10. 7/9/2025July 9 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.