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 04/16/26 - Amended Senate
 02/20/26 - Introduced

 SB-1285 Juvenile court: procedure.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 06/11/2026 09:00 PM

SB1285:v97#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 June 11, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 April 16, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Senate Bill

No. 1285

Introduced by Senator Durazo
(Coauthors: Senators Becker, Caballero, Cortese, and Reyes)

February 20, 2026

 An act to amend Section 782 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to juveniles. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 1285, as amended, Durazo.
 Juvenile court: procedure.

Existing law authorizes a judge of the juvenile court in which a petition was filed to dismiss the petition, or set aside the findings and dismiss the petition, if the court finds that the interests of justice and the welfare of the minor require that dismissal, or if the court finds that the minor is not in need of treatment or rehabilitation, regardless of whether the minor is, at the time of the order, a ward or dependent child of the court.

This bill would clarify that an adjudication dismissed pursuant to that provision be deemed to have not occurred and prohibit a person from suffering any future adverse questions based on an adjudication dismissed pursuant to that provision. The bill would specify that a dismissal of a sustained petition pursuant to that
 provision is deemed to include both dismissal of a petition and a setting aside of any findings.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 NO 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 The The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a) The intent of the Legislature in enacting this act is to codify the holding of In re David T. (2017) 13 Cal.App.5th 866.
 866 and People v. Haro (2013) 221 Cal.App.4th 718, and to disapprove the holdings of In re Taylor C. (2024) 101 Cal.App.5th 492 and In re Parker B. (2026) 120 Cal.App.5th 382.

(b) The Legislature reaffirms that once a juvenile court dismisses a juvenile petition pursuant to Section 782 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, the petition is effectively erased as if the subject of the petition had never suffered it in the initial instance. People v. Haro (2013) 221 Cal.App.4th 718.

(c) In adding subdivision (e) to Section 782 of the Welfare and Institutions Code via Assembly Bill 2629 of the 2021–22 Regular Session (Chapter 970 of the Statutes of 2022), the
 Legislature intended to reaffirm existing law that dismissal pursuant to Section 782 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, and sealing of records pursuant to applicable sealing statutes, are related yet distinct procedures. The Legislature did not intend to modify or reduce the relief afforded by a dismissal granted pursuant to Section 782 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, to change the character of that section as a general dismissal statute, or to alter established law holding that a dismissal under Section 782 of the Welfare and Institutions Code removes restrictions on sealing that may be contained in the sealing statutes. See In re David T. (2017) 13 Cal.App.5th 866, 878.

SEC. 2.

 Section 782 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is amended to read:

782.

 (a) (1) A judge of the juvenile court in which a petition was filed or that has taken jurisdiction of a case pursuant to Section 750 may dismiss the petition, or may set aside the findings and dismiss the petition, if the court finds that the interests of justice and the welfare of the person who is the subject of the petition require that dismissal, or if it finds that they are not in need of treatment or rehabilitation. The court has jurisdiction to order dismissal or setting aside of the findings and dismissal regardless of whether the person who is the subject of the petition is, at the time of the order, a ward or dependent child of the court. Nothing in this section shall be interpreted to require the court to maintain jurisdiction
 over a person who is the subject of a petition between the time the court’s jurisdiction over that person terminates and the point at which their petition is dismissed.

(2) (A) When exercising its discretion under paragraph (1) at the time the cou