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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Senate Bill

SB 229: Peace officers: deputy sheriffs.

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 229 is a senate bill introduced in the California Senate on January 28, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Peace officers: deputy sheriffs. Primary sponsor: Marie Alvarado-Gil (R). Most recent recorded action (July 14, 2025): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 51, Statutes of 2025.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Legislative Counsel’s Digest (official, as of the latest version). Written by nonpartisan legislative staff; reproduced verbatim.

Existing law establishes categories of peace officers with varying powers and authority to make arrests and carry firearms. Under existing law, in certain counties, including the Counties of Butte and Calaveras, a deputy sheriff, who is employed to perform duties exclusively or initially relating to custodial assignments with responsibilities for maintaining the operations of county custodial facilities, is a peace officer whose authority extends to any place in the state only while engaged in the performance of the duties of the officer’s employment and for the purpose of carrying out the primary function of employment relating to the officer’s custodial assignments, or when performing other law enforcement duties directed by the officer’s employing agency during a local state of emergency.

This bill would include a deputy sheriff employed by the Counties of Amador and Nevada within that definition of peace officer.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Marie Alvarado-GilPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate4

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 51, Statutes of 2025.
  2. Approved by the Governor.
  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:15 a.m.
  4. In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
  5. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 2248.) Ordered to the Senate.
  6. Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
  7. From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 17).
  8. Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
  9. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
  10. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 584.) Ordered to the Assembly.
  11. Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
  12. From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 533.) (March 25).

Sources

  1. California Legislative Information — pubinfo database export
  2. Official bill page