California 2021-2022 Regular Session Status: Passed Assembly Bipartisan · 15 D · 2 R cosponsors

AB 937 — Immigration enforcement.

Last action — Read third time. Refused passage. (Ayes 18. Noes 13. Page 5423.).

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    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
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    Passed Assembly
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    Passed Senate
  5. 5
    To Executive
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    Enacted

This bill died with 2021-2022 Regular Session. It reached “Passed Assembly” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.

This bill is no longer active — its legislative session has ended, so there is no live prognosis. It would have to be reintroduced in the current session to move again.

Summary

Existing law, the California Values Act, prohibits a California law enforcement agency from providing a person's release date, or responding to a request for notification of a release date, unless that information is available to the public, and prohibits the transfer of an individual to immigration authorities, as specified, unless the person has been convicted of specified crimes or arrested for a serious or violent felony. This bill would prohibit any state or local agency from arresting or assisting with the arrest, confinement, detention, transfer, interrogation, or deportation of an individual for an immigration enforcement purpose, except as specified. The bill would additionally prohibit state or local agencies or courts from using immigration status as a factor to deny or to recommend denial of probation or participation in any diversion, rehabilitation, mental health program, or placement in a credit-earning program or class, or to determine custodial classification level, to deny mandatory supervision, or to lengthen the portion of supervision served in custody. The bill would authorize a person to bring an action for equitable or declaratory relief in a court of competent jurisdiction against a state or local agency or state or local official that violates these provisions, and would make those agencies or officials liable for actual and general damages and reasonable attorney's fees. Existing law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to implement and maintain procedures to identify inmates serving terms in state prison who are undocumented felons subject to deportation. Existing law requires the department to annually report to the Legislature the number of persons identified as undocumented aliens, as specified. This bill would repeal those provisions. Existing law requires all basic information stored in state or local criminal offender record information systems to be recorded in the form of specified standard data elements, including, among other things, place of birth. This bill would no longer require that information to include place of birth.

Bill Text

Action History

  1. Read third time. Refused passage. (Ayes 18. Noes 13. Page 5423.).

  2. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  3. Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.

  4. Ordered to second reading.

  5. From inactive file.

  6. Ordered to inactive file by unanimous consent.

  7. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  8. Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

  9. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  10. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 26).

  11. In committee: Referred to suspense file.

  12. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (July 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  13. Referred to Com. on PUB. S.

  14. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

  15. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 42. Noes 21. Page 1906.)

  16. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  17. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (May 20).

  18. Coauthors revised.

  19. In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.

  20. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  21. Read second time and amended.

  22. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (April 20).

  23. In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

  24. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 6). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

  25. Coauthors revised.

  26. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.

  27. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended.

  28. Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and JUD.

  29. From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.

  30. Read first time. To print.

Sponsors

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 26 co-sponsors · 95 not signed on · 18 voted No

Sponsors (1)

Co-sponsors (26)

Not signed on (95)

95 members have not signed on to this bill.

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Votes

3rd Reading AB937 Carrillo et al. By Wiener

Failed 18 Yea · 13 Nay · 9 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 9806
Democratic 9103
Republican 0400
Total 181309
% of votes cast 45%33%0%23%
How each member voted (40)
Member Party Vote
Skinner — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Pan — Yea
Kamlager — Yea
Hueso — Yea
Leyva — Yea
Wieckowski — Yea
Atkins — Yea
Gonzalez — Yea
Bates — Nay
Dodd — Nay
Melendez — Nay
Nielsen — Nay
Borgeas — Nay
Glazer — Nay
Wilk — Nay
Eggman — Nay
Portantino — Not Voting
Hertzberg — Not Voting
Roth — Not Voting
Min — Not Voting
Rubio — Not Voting
Newman — Not Voting
Allen, Benjamin Democratic Yea
Archuleta, Bob Democratic Not Voting
Becker, Josh Democratic Yea
Caballero, Anna M. Democratic Not Voting
Cortese, Dave Democratic Yea
Durazo, Maria Elena Democratic Yea
Hurtado, Melissa Democratic Nay
Laird, John Democratic Yea
Limón, Monique Democratic Yea
McGuire, Mike Democratic Yea
Stern, Henry I. Democratic Yea
Umberg, Thomas J. Democratic Not Voting
Wiener, Scott D. Democratic Yea
Dahle, Megan Republican Nay
Grove, Shannon Republican Nay
Jones, Brian W. Republican Nay
Ochoa Bogh, Rosilicie Republican Nay

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Do pass

Passed 5 Yea · 2 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Democratic 2000
Unaffiliated 3100
Republican 0100
Total 5200
% of votes cast 71%29%0%0%
How each member voted (7)
Member Party Vote
Kamlager — Yea
Portantino — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Bates — Nay
Laird, John Democratic Yea
McGuire, Mike Democratic Yea
Jones, Brian W. Republican Nay

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Placed on suspense file

Passed 7 Yea · 0 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Republican 1000
Unaffiliated 5000
Democratic 1000
Total 7000
% of votes cast 100%0%0%0%
How each member voted (7)
Member Party Vote
Portantino — Yea
Wieckowski — Yea
Kamlager — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Bates — Yea
Laird, John Democratic Yea
Jones, Brian W. Republican Yea

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AB 937 Carrillo Assembly Third Reading

Passed 42 Yea · 21 Nay · 16 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 237011
Democratic 19405
Republican 01000
Total 4221016
% of votes cast 53%27%0%20%
How each member voted (79)
Member Party Vote
Jones-Sawyer — Yea
Santiago — Yea
Rodriguez — Yea
Quirk — Yea
Wood — Yea
Bloom — Yea
Friedman — Yea
Chiu — Yea
Rendon — Yea
Mullin — Yea
Holden — Yea
Gray — Nay
Smith — Nay
Cunningham — Nay
Waldron — Not Voting
Maienschein — Not Voting
Cooley — Not Voting
Mayes — Not Voting
Nazarian — Not Voting
Cooper — Not Voting
Low — Not Voting
Chau — Not Voting
Frazier — Not Voting
Villapudua — Not Voting
Salas — Not Voting
Ting — Yea
O'Donnell — Yea
Levine — Yea
Daly — Yea
McCarty — Yea
Medina — Yea
Burke — Yea
Voepel — Nay
Mathis — Nay
Bigelow — Nay
Kiley — Nay
Cristina Garcia — Yea
Eduardo Garcia — Yea
Lorena Gonzalez — Yea
Luz Rivas — Yea
Mark Stone — Yea
Aguiar-Curry, Cecilia M. Democratic Yea
Arambula, Joaquin Democratic Not Voting
Bauer-Kahan, Rebecca Democratic Not Voting
Bennett, Steve Democratic Yea
Berman, Marc Democratic Yea
Boerner, Tasha Democratic Not Voting
Bryan, Isaac G. Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Carrillo, Juan Democratic Yea
Cervantes, Sabrina Democratic Yea
Fong, Mike Democratic Nay
Gabriel, Jesse Democratic Yea
Gipson, Mike A. Democratic Yea
Grayson, Timothy S. Democratic Yea
Irwin, Jacqui Democratic Not Voting
Kalra, Ash Democratic Yea
Lee, Alex Democratic Yea
Muratsuchi, Al Democratic Nay
Nguyen, Stephanie Democratic Nay
Petrie-Norris, Cottie Democratic Nay
Quirk-Silva, Sharon Democratic Yea
Ramos, James C. Democratic Yea
Reyes, Eloise Gómez Democratic Yea
Rivas, Robert Democratic Yea
Rubio, Blanca E. Democratic Not Voting
Ward, Christopher M. Democratic Yea
Weber Pierson, M.D., Akilah Democratic Yea
Wicks, Buffy Democratic Yea
Chen, Phillip Republican Nay
Choi, Steven S. Republican Nay
Dahle, Megan Republican Nay
Davies, Laurie Republican Nay
Flora, Heath Republican Nay
Gallagher, James Republican Nay
Lackey, Tom Republican Nay
Patterson, Joe Republican Nay
Seyarto, Kelly Republican Nay
Valladares, Suzette Martinez Republican Nay

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Do pass.

Passed 11 Yea · 4 Nay · 1 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 7100
Democratic 4101
Republican 0200
Total 11401
% of votes cast 69%25%0%6%
How each member voted (16)
Member Party Vote
Levine — Yea
Holden — Yea
Quirk — Yea
Chau — Yea
Bigelow — Nay
Eduardo Garcia — Yea
Lorena Gonzalez — Yea
Luz Rivas — Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Carrillo, Juan Democratic Yea
Fong, Mike Democratic Nay
Gabriel, Jesse Democratic Not Voting
Rivas, Robert Democratic Yea
Weber Pierson, M.D., Akilah Democratic Yea
Dahle, Megan Republican Nay
Davies, Laurie Republican Nay

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Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]

Passed 7 Yea · 2 Nay · 2 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 5102
Republican 0100
Democratic 2000
Total 7202
% of votes cast 64%18%0%18%
How each member voted (11)
Member Party Vote
Smith — Nay
Kiley — Not Voting
Maienschein — Not Voting
Chiu — Yea
Holden — Yea
Chau — Yea
Lorena Gonzalez — Yea
Mark Stone — Yea
Kalra, Ash Democratic Yea
Reyes, Eloise Gómez Democratic Yea
Davies, Laurie Republican Nay

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Subjects

immigration civil-rights
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Frequently asked questions

What does AB 937 do?
Existing law, the California Values Act, prohibits a California law enforcement agency from providing a person's release date, or responding to a request for notification of a release date, unless that information is available to the public, and prohibits the transfer of an individual to immigration authorities, as specified, unless the person has been convicted of specified crimes or arrested for a serious or violent felony. This bill would prohibit any state or local agency from arresting or assisting with the arrest, confinement, detention, transfer, interrogation, or deportation of an individual for an immigration enforcement purpose, except as specified. The bill would additionally prohibit state or local agencies or courts from using immigration status as a factor to deny or to recommend denial of probation or participation in any diversion, rehabilitation, mental health program, or placement in a credit-earning program or class, or to determine custodial classification level, to deny mandatory supervision, or to lengthen the portion of supervision served in custody. The bill would authorize a person to bring an action for equitable or declaratory relief in a court of competent jurisdiction against a state or local agency or state or local official that violates these provisions, and would make those agencies or officials liable for actual and general damages and reasonable attorney's fees. Existing law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to implement and maintain procedures to identify inmates serving terms in state prison who are undocumented felons subject to deportation. Existing law requires the department to annually report to the Legislature the number of persons identified as undocumented aliens, as specified. This bill would repeal those provisions. Existing law requires all basic information stored in state or local criminal offender record information systems to be recorded in the form of specified standard data elements, including, among other things, place of birth. This bill would no longer require that information to include place of birth.
Who sponsors AB 937?
AB 937 is sponsored by Kalra, Ash (Democratic), Santiago, Chiu, Lee, Alex (Democratic), Wiener, Scott D. (Democratic), Aguiar-Curry, Cecilia M. (Democratic), Bryan, Isaac G. (Democratic), Gipson, Mike A. (Democratic), Rivas, Robert (Democratic), Jones-Sawyer, Ting, Holden, Wicks, Buffy (Democratic), Reyes, Eloise Gómez (Democratic), Becker, Josh (Democratic), Bradford, Durazo, Maria Elena (Democratic), Hueso, Kamlager, Laird, John (Democratic), Leyva, Skinner, Gonzalez, Jeff (Republican), Garcia, Robert (Democratic), and Carrillo, Juan (Democratic).
What is the current status of AB 937?
This bill died with 2021-2022 Regular Session. It reached “Passed Assembly” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.
Where can I track AB 937?
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