20250SB__094199INT INTRODUCED 2026-01-29 REVISED 2026-06-09 2025 SB INT Introduced by Senator Padilla (Principal coauthors: Senators Caballero , Hurtado , and Rubio ) (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Carrillo) (Coauthors: Senators Archuleta, Durazo, Gonzalez , and Arreguín ) (Coauthors: Assembly Members Elhawary, Garcia, Ortega, Celeste Rodriguez, Solache , Schultz, and Wilson ) LEAD_AUTHOR SENATE Padilla PRINCIPAL_COAUTHOR SENATE Caballero PRINCIPAL_COAUTHOR SENATE Hurtado PRINCIPAL_COAUTHOR SENATE Rubio PRINCIPAL_COAUTHOR ASSEMBLY Carrillo COAUTHOR SENATE Archuleta COAUTHOR SENATE Durazo COAUTHOR SENATE Gonzalez COAUTHOR SENATE Arreguín COAUTHOR ASSEMBLY Elhawary COAUTHOR ASSEMBLY Garcia COAUTHOR ASSEMBLY Ortega COAUTHOR ASSEMBLY Celeste Rodriguez COAUTHOR ASSEMBLY Solache COAUTHOR ASSEMBLY Schultz COAUTHOR ASSEMBLY Wilson

An act to add

Chapter 24.6 (commencing with

Section 22756) to Division of the Business and Professions Code, relating to detention facilities. detention facilities Private detention facilities: canteens. 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. MAJORITY NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Chapter 24.6 (commencing with

Section 22756) is added to Division of the Business and Professions Code , to read: 24.6. Private Detention Facilities 22756. (

a) For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) “Commissary” means any onsite or online store, canteen, vendor-operated program, or retail service that sells goods, food, hygiene supplies, phone cards, or other items to people confined in a private detention facility, whether operated directly by the facility or through a third-party contractor. (2) “Private detention facility” has the same meaning as defined in

Section of the Penal Code. (

b) The sale price of an

article offered for sale in a commissary at a private detention facility shall not exceed a 35-percent markup above the amount paid to a vendor for that article. REVISIONS: Heading—Lines 2, 4, and 6.