Amended IN Senate March 26, 2025 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20252026 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 311Introduced by Senator Grove(Coauthor: Senator Dahle)February 10, 2025 An act to add Section 3327 to the Penal Code, relating to correctional facilities.LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSB 311, as amended, Grove. Correctional facilities: sexual violence. womens prisons.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 Womens Facility.This bill would require the department to establish a secure facility at each womens 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 womens prison.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to address sexual violence in womens correctional facilities.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NOYES Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 3327 is added to the Penal Code, to read:3327. (a) The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall establish a secure facility at each womens prison to house transgender women, in order to protect the security needs of biological women at birth in sleeping and other intimate areas.(b) The secure facility would allow the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to focus on the individual needs of the transgender women and biological women at birth populations.(c) 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 womens prison.SECTION 1.It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to address sexual violence in womens correctional facilities.
Amended IN Senate March 26, 2025 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20252026 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 311Introduced by Senator Grove(Coauthor: Senator Dahle)February 10, 2025 An act to add Section 3327 to the Penal Code, relating to correctional facilities.LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSB 311, as amended, Grove. Correctional facilities: sexual violence. womens prisons.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 Womens Facility.This bill would require the department to establish a secure facility at each womens 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 womens prison.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to address sexual violence in womens correctional facilities.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NOYES Local Program: NO
Amended IN Senate March 26, 2025
Amended IN Senate March 26, 2025
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20252026 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 311
Introduced by Senator Grove(Coauthor: Senator Dahle)February 10, 2025
Introduced by Senator Grove(Coauthor: Senator Dahle)
February 10, 2025
An act to add Section 3327 to the Penal Code, relating to correctional facilities.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 311, as amended, Grove. Correctional facilities: sexual violence. womens prisons.
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 Womens Facility.This bill would require the department to establish a secure facility at each womens 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 womens prison.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to address sexual violence in womens correctional facilities.
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 Womens Facility.
This bill would require the department to establish a secure facility at each womens 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 womens prison.
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to address sexual violence in womens correctional facilities.
## Digest Key
## Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 3327 is added to the Penal Code, to read:3327. (a) The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall establish a secure facility at each womens prison to house transgender women, in order to protect the security needs of biological women at birth in sleeping and other intimate areas.(b) The secure facility would allow the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to focus on the individual needs of the transgender women and biological women at birth populations.(c) 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 womens prison.SECTION 1.It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to address sexual violence in womens correctional facilities.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 3327 is added to the Penal Code, to read:3327. (a) The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall establish a secure facility at each womens prison to house transgender women, in order to protect the security needs of biological women at birth in sleeping and other intimate areas.(b) The secure facility would allow the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to focus on the individual needs of the transgender women and biological women at birth populations.(c) 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 womens prison.
SECTION 1. Section 3327 is added to the Penal Code, to read:
### SECTION 1.
3327. (a) The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall establish a secure facility at each womens prison to house transgender women, in order to protect the security needs of biological women at birth in sleeping and other intimate areas.(b) The secure facility would allow the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to focus on the individual needs of the transgender women and biological women at birth populations.(c) 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 womens prison.
3327. (a) The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall establish a secure facility at each womens prison to house transgender women, in order to protect the security needs of biological women at birth in sleeping and other intimate areas.(b) The secure facility would allow the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to focus on the individual needs of the transgender women and biological women at birth populations.(c) 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 womens prison.
3327. (a) The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall establish a secure facility at each womens prison to house transgender women, in order to protect the security needs of biological women at birth in sleeping and other intimate areas.(b) The secure facility would allow the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to focus on the individual needs of the transgender women and biological women at birth populations.(c) 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 womens prison.
3327. (a) The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall establish a secure facility at each womens prison to house transgender women, in order to protect the security needs of biological women at birth in sleeping and other intimate areas.
(b) The secure facility would allow the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to focus on the individual needs of the transgender women and biological women at birth populations.
(c) 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 womens prison.
It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to address sexual violence in womens correctional facilities.