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California · 2025-2026 Regular Session

SB554 Law enforcement: immigration enforcement.

Direction

Immigration enforcement sanctuary policiesAI label

Expands immigration enforcement model confidence 90%

Requires law enforcement agencies to respond to immigration authorities' requests for release dates and to perform specified limited exceptions to cooperation prohibitions (such as for individuals with certain criminal convictions), while removing local discretion and preempting additional local-pro

Responses are required under this subdivision.

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Immigration enforcement state federal cooperationAI label

Expands immigration enforcement model confidence 90%

Mandates cooperation with immigration authorities in additional circumstances (e.g., for those convicted of listed serious or violent felonies or subject to certain warrants) and requires responses to release-date inquiries, expanding the scope of state and local immigration enforcement.

a law enforcement official shall cooperate with immigration officials pursuant to subparagraph (C) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 7284.6.

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  1. Filed (completed)
  2. Committee (completed)
  3. Passed one chamber (completed)
  4. Passed both (completed)
  5. Governor
  6. Law

Status: Failed

Last action
2026-02-02: Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 62(a).
Filed
2025-02-20
Committee
Public Safety
Sponsor
Brian Jones R + 8 cosponsors (8 R)

Why the model tagged it this way: The bill amends the California Values Act (sanctuary law) to mandate responses to ICE release-date requests, require cooperation in additional criminal-history scenarios, limit barriers to federal cooperation by removing local-policy references, and impose new duties on local agencies, all of which expand immigration enforcement. Deleted provisions that would have further preempted local ordinances were removed in amendment, but the core changes still expand enforcement scope.

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Hearings and calendar

Votes

DateChamberMotionYea-Nay
2025-04-29SDo pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government]1-5Failed

Sponsors

Text versions

History (10 actions)
DateChamberAction
2026-02-02SReturned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 62(a).
2025-04-30SApril 29 set for second hearing. Failed passage in committee. (Ayes 1. Noes 5. Page 945.)
2025-04-21SFrom committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
2025-04-17SSet for hearing April 29.
2025-04-16SApril 22 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
2025-04-09SSet for hearing April 22.
2025-03-24SFrom committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
2025-03-19SReferred to Coms. on PUB. S. and L. GOV.
2025-02-21SFrom printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
2025-02-20SIntroduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.