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Among its most significant changes, this bill adds a new rule that judges and magistrates may not release someone on their own recognizance — meaning without posting bail — if that person has been arrested at least five times and convicted at least once for non-traffic misdemeanors or felonies within the past three years, unless the court imposes electronic monitoring, inpatient treatment, supervised custody, or a financial bail condition beyond an unsecured bond. The bill also requires jail staff to collect and submit immigration status information for non-citizen arrestees along with other booking details to the court, and clarifies that this pretrial information requirement applies "notwithstanding any other provision of law." People with repeated recent criminal records who are awaiting trial will face a higher bar to being released without conditions, as judges must impose stricter supervision or financial requirements before allowing their release.