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Measure SB 311
Authors Grove  
Coauthors: Dahle  
Subject Correctional facilities: women’s prisons.
Relating To relating to correctional facilities.
Title An act to add Section 3327 to the Penal Code, relating to correctional facilities.
Last Action Dt 2025-03-26
State Amended Senate
Status In Committee Process
Active? Y
Vote Required Majority
Appropriation No
Fiscal Committee Yes
Local Program No
Substantive Changes None
Urgency No
Tax Levy No
Leginfo Link Bill
Actions
2025-04-29     April 29 set for first hearing. Failed passage in committee. (Ayes 1. Noes 4. Page 944.) Reconsideration granted.
2025-04-11     Set for hearing April 29.
2025-04-02     Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
2025-03-26     From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
2025-02-19     Referred to Com. on RLS.
2025-02-11     From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 13.
2025-02-10     Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
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Amended Senate     2025-03-26
Introduced     2025-02-10
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								Any inmate convicted of an offense for which they are required to register pursuant to Section 290, except for biological women at birth, shall be ineligible for housing at a women’s prison.
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Last Version Text Digest Existing law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to institute certain practices to prevent sexual violence and promote inmate and ward safety in the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, including reviewing and providing handbooks regarding sexual abuse in detention to inmates and wards. Existing law establishes 2 institutions for the punishment, treatment, supervision, custody, and care of women convicted of felonies, known as the California Institution for Women and the Central California Women’s Facility. This bill would require the department to establish a secure facility at each women’s prison to house transgender women, in order to protect the security needs of biological women, as specified. The bill would also prohibit certain inmates convicted of specified sexual offenses from being housed at a women’s prison.