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 05/23/25 - Amended Senate
 02/19/25 - Introduced

 SB-498 Incarcerated persons: communications.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 04/06/2026 09:00 PM

SB498:v97#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Revised
 June 09, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 April 06, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 May 23, 2025

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Senate Bill

No. 498

Introduced by Senator Becker
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Bonta, Quirk-Silva, Schultz, and Sharp-Collins)

February 19, 2025

 An act to add Section 874 to the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to hygiene products. amend Section 2084.5 of the Penal Code, relating to corrections.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 498, as amended, Becker.
 County detention: juvenile facilities: commissary. Incarcerated persons: communications.

Under existing law, a person sentenced to imprisonment in state prison or in a county jail for a felony offense, as specified, may, during that period of confinement, be deprived only of those rights as are reasonably related to legitimate penological interests. Existing law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to provide inmates with accessible, functional voice communication services free of charge to the person initiating and the person receiving the communication.

This bill would additionally require the department to provide inmates electronic messaging services as described above. The bill would prohibit staff at a department facility, if an incarcerated individual is authorized to possess and use a tablet or other device for voice
 communications, from disconnecting any communications conducted by the individual on the device based solely on the duration of the call.

Existing law requires that an inmate in a state prison who has maintained an inmate trust account with $25 or less for 30 consecutive days be deemed indigent and requires that an inmate who is indigent receive, among other things, basic supplies necessary for maintaining personal hygiene.

Existing law allows the sheriff of each county to operate a store in connection with the county jail, and authorizes the chief probation officer of each county to operate a store in connection with the juvenile hall or other county juvenile facilities, to sell confectionary, postage and writing materials, and toilet articles and supplies to wards and
 juvenile detainees. Existing law also provides that all youth confined in juvenile facilities have specified rights, including, among others, the right to receive adequate personal hygiene items.

 This bill would require that indigent wards or detainees be provided basic hygiene products free of charge and require that those individuals have guaranteed access to hygiene products, upon their request. The bill would prohibit an indigent ward or detainee from being denied access to hygiene products as a disciplinary measure. The bill would prohibit debt from being accrued as a result of the provision of hygiene products to indigent
 wards or detainees and would require any debt accrued for the provision of hygiene products prior to January 1, 2026, to be discharged. By expanding the duties of probation officers, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.

This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.

Digest Key

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

Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 Section 2084.5 of the Penal Code is amended to read:

2084.5.

 (a) A state prison or youth residential placement or detention center operated by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall provide persons in their custody and confined in a correctional or detention facility with accessible, functional voice communication and electronic messaging services free of charge to the person initiating and the person receiving the co