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Senate Committee Rejects Bill Barring Sex Offenders from Office

7/1/2026

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The Senate Elections Committee voted 2-1-2 to reject AB 2753, which would bar registered sex offenders from office.
The bill followed offender Rene Campos’s bid for a Fresno council seat, leading Senator Scott Wiener to support it for Tier Three offenders and Assemblymember Esmeralda Soria to oppose it.
Assemblymember Dawn Addis’s AB 2961 would bar felony sex-crime convicts from office but was softened to exclude child crimes as lawmakers begin a month-long recess Thursday.

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The Senate Elections Committee voted 2-1-2 to reject AB 2753, which would bar registered sex offenders from office.
The bill followed offender Rene Campos’s bid for a Fresno council seat, leading Senator Scott Wiener to support it for Tier Three offenders and Assemblymember Esmeralda Soria to oppose it.
Assemblymember Dawn Addis’s AB 2961 would bar felony sex-crime convicts from office but was softened to exclude child crimes as lawmakers begin a month-long recess Thursday.