County and city jails: incarcerated person contacts.

Website navigation elements, search fields, version history list, publication date metadata, and a Digest Key classification block (Vote: 2/3, Appropriation: NO, Fiscal Committee: YES, Local Program: YES) were added as part of the web page layout.

The formal 'STATE OF CALIFORNIA AUTHENTICATED ELECTRONIC LEGICAL MATERIAL' header and official chaptered document formatting (page numbers, line references) were removed.

Bill was assigned Chapter 726 and the governor's approval date (October 13, 2025) was inserted, reflecting its enactment into law.

Document header changed from legislative passage format to 'STATE OF CALIFORNIA AUTHENTICATED ELECTRONIC LEGAL MATERIAL' as is standard for chaptered bills.

Removed amendment history headers listing prior amendment dates (March 28, May 23, May 28, September 2, 2025) and the 'Introduced by' line with coauthors.

Added passage dates: 'Passed the Assembly September 9, 2025' and 'Passed the Senate September 8, 2025.'

Added Governor's receipt and approval signature lines with blank date fields.

Removed the requirement that jails notify all people covered by the medical release of information form within 24 hours of an incarcerated person being hospitalized for a serious or critical medical condition, and facilitate telephone calls between the incarcerated person and those people if consented to. This included three definitions of serious or critical conditions: terminal disease treatment, life-sustaining treatment, and admission to a public or community hospital.

The bill's scope was narrowed from covering both hospitalization and death notifications to only covering death notifications. The death notification provision (notify within 24 hours of death) is retained but renumbered from subsection (c) to subsection (b).

Assembly Member Bains was added as a coauthor alongside Assembly Member Schultz.

New Section 3 declares the bill an urgency statute that takes effect immediately upon signing, citing ongoing in-custody deaths and public concern about lack of timely communication to families as the necessity.

Vote requirement changed from 'majority' to 'majority 2/3,' which is the constitutional threshold required for urgency statutes under Article IV of the California Constitution.

The bill's title was expanded to include 'and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately,' reflecting the new urgency provision.

The bill now applies to 'county or city jails' rather than only 'county jails,' extending the 24-hour notification duties to city-operated detention facilities as well.

A new subsection (a) was added requiring that Section 4032.5 be known and cited as 'Wakiesha's Law.' The original subsections were renumbered from (a)/(b) to (b)/(c).

Assembly Member Schultz was added as a coauthor of the bill.