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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Criminal justice alignment."
+description: "(1) Existing law defines a felony as a crime which is punishable with death or by imprisonment in the state prison. Existing law also provides that except in cases where a different punishment is prescribed by law, every offense declared to be a felony, or to be punishable by imprisonment in a state prison, is punishable by imprisonment in any of the state prisons for 16 months, or 2 or 3 years. Every offense which is prescribed to be a felony punishable by imprisonment in any of the state prisons or by a fine, but without an alternate sentence to the county jail, may be punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year or by a fine, or by both."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20112012"
+identifier: "AB 109"
+citation: "California AB 109 (20112012)"
+classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
+subjects: ["Criminal justice alignment."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Budget"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2011-01-10"
+last_action: "2011-04-04"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a21e2cf8-91af-4c27-8bcb-b562ba2aaef7"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB109"
+source_hash: "e2b3bd915cc1e21a6fde95ea54c89f22f6b96a396ad504703565c1dd1edbacec"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
+---
+
+# California AB 109 (20112012) — Criminal justice alignment.
+
+(1) Existing law defines a felony as a crime which is punishable with death or by imprisonment in the state prison. Existing law also provides that except in cases where a different punishment is prescribed by law, every offense declared to be a felony, or to be punishable by imprisonment in a state prison, is punishable by imprisonment in any of the state prisons for 16 months, or 2 or 3 years. Every offense which is prescribed to be a felony punishable by imprisonment in any of the state prisons or by a fine, but without an alternate sentence to the county jail, may be punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year or by a fine, or by both.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **01/10/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB109&version=20110AB10999INT)
+2. **03/14/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB109&version=20110AB10998AMD)
+3. **03/17/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB109&version=20110AB10997AMD)
+4. **04/04/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB109&version=20110AB10995CHP)
+5. **AB109** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB109)
+6. **03/29/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB109&version=20110AB10996ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3rd Reading AB109 Committee on BUDGET (Blumenfield) By Leno Urgency Clause — **24–15** (fail) · upper
+- AB 109 BUDGET Assembly Third Reading By BLUMENFIELD — **49–0** (pass) · lower
+- AB 109 BUDGET Concurrence in Senate Amendments By BLUMENFIELD — **51–27** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass. — **11–5** (pass) · upper
+- 3rd Reading AB109 Committee on BUDGET (Blumenfield) By Leno — **24–16** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Committee on Budget — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2011-01-10** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2011-01-11** From printer. May be heard in committee February 10.
+- **2011-02-18** Without reference to committee. `referral-committee`
+- **2011-02-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2011-02-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 49. Noes 0. Page 419.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
+- **2011-02-22** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2011-03-07** Ordered to second reading.
+- **2011-03-07** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2011-03-14** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
+- **2011-03-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2011-03-16** Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5. `referral-committee`
+- **2011-03-16** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 5.) (March 16). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2011-03-16** Ordered to third reading.
+- **2011-03-17** Read third time. Urgency clause refused adoption. (Ayes 24. Noes 15. Page 369.) `reading-3, reading-1`
+- **2011-03-17** Amended pursuant to Joint Rule 23.5.
+- **2011-03-17** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 24. Noes 16. Page 374.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
+- **2011-03-17** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after March 19 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
+- **2011-03-17** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 47. Noes 24. Page 617.)
+- **2011-03-17** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 51. Noes 27. Page 622.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
+- **2011-03-18** Measure version as amended on March 17 corrected. `amendment-passage`
+- **2011-03-22** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
+- **2011-04-04** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2011-04-04** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 15, Statutes of 2011.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a21e2cf8-91af-4c27-8bcb-b562ba2aaef7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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