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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Senate Bill

SB 941: Private detention facilities: canteens.

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 941 is a senate bill introduced in the California Senate on January 29, 2026. According to its official title, it concerns: Private detention facilities: canteens. Primary sponsor: Stephen Padilla (D). It lists 15 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (September 30, 2026): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 991, Statutes of 2026.

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Official summary

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

Existing law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to maintain a canteen at its active facilities, and until January 1, 2028, prohibits the sale prices of the articles offered for sale in a canteen from exceeding a 35% markup above the price of the articles paid to the vendors. Existing law, commencing on January 1, 2028, requires the sale amounts of the articles to be offered for sale to be fixed by the secretary at amounts that will render each canteen self-supporting.

This bill would prohibit the sale price of an article offered for sale in a commissary, as defined, at a private detention facility, defined as a detention facility that is operated by a private, nongovernmental, for-profit entity, and operating pursuant to a contract or agreement with a governmental entity, from exceeding a 35% markup above the amount paid to a vendor for that article.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 16

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Stephen PadillaPrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate18
Bob ArchuletaCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate30
Jesse ArreguínCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate7
Anna CaballeroCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate14
Juan CarrilloCo-sponsorDemocraticAssembly39
Maria Elena DurazoCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate26
Sade ElhawaryCo-sponsorDemocraticAssembly57
Robert GarciaCo-sponsorDemocraticAssembly50
Lena GonzalezCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate33
Melissa HurtadoCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate16
Liz OrtegaCo-sponsorDemocraticAssembly20
Celeste RodriguezCo-sponsorDemocraticAssembly43
Susan RubioCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate22
Nick SchultzCo-sponsorDemocraticAssembly44
José Luis SolacheCo-sponsorDemocraticAssembly62
Lori WilsonCo-sponsorDemocraticAssembly11

“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 991, Statutes of 2026.
  2. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 991, Statutes of 2026.
  3. Approved by the Governor.
  4. Approved by the Governor.
  5. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
  6. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
  7. Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5542.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
  8. Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
  9. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
  10. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
  11. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 70. Noes 1. Page 6202.) Ordered to the Senate.
  12. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 70. Noes 1. Page 6202.) Ordered to the Senate.

Sources

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