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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Criminal Justice Realignment of 2011."
+description: "(1) Existing law, if Chapter 15 of the Statutes of 2011 becomes operative, provides that, except for persons with a prior or current felony conviction for serious or violent felony, persons required to register as sex offenders, or persons convicted of a crime as part of a sentence enhancement, as specified, a felony punishable pursuant to specified provisions where the term is not specified in the underlying offense shall be punishable by a term of imprisonment is a county in a county jail for 16 months, or 2 or 3 years and a felony punishable by a term of imprisonment described in the underlying offense shall be punishable by imprisonment in a county jail. Those persons excepted from this requirement are subject to imprisonment in the state prison."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20112012 Special Session 1"
+identifier: "AB 17"
+citation: "California AB 17 (20112012 Special Session 1)"
+classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
+subjects: ["Criminal Justice Realignment of 2011."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Blumenfield"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2011-05-19"
+last_action: "2011-09-21"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/01237162-267f-4f29-9d99-ae22a3662569"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120121AB17"
+source_hash: "7b7ead42ffd1080024f4f0f24deb0d3747b3115ecd1b905b1cc24ce042a5a701"
+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 17 (20112012 Special Session 1) — Criminal Justice Realignment of 2011.
+
+(1) Existing law, if Chapter 15 of the Statutes of 2011 becomes operative, provides that, except for persons with a prior or current felony conviction for serious or violent felony, persons required to register as sex offenders, or persons convicted of a crime as part of a sentence enhancement, as specified, a felony punishable pursuant to specified provisions where the term is not specified in the underlying offense shall be punishable by a term of imprisonment is a county in a county jail for 16 months, or 2 or 3 years and a felony punishable by a term of imprisonment described in the underlying offense shall be punishable by imprisonment in a county jail. Those persons excepted from this requirement are subject to imprisonment in the state prison.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **05/19/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120121AB17&version=20111AB1799INT)
+2. **09/02/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120121AB17&version=20111AB1798AMD)
+3. **09/07/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120121AB17&version=20111AB1797AMD)
+4. **09/21/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120121AB17&version=20111AB1795CHP)
+5. **AB17** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120121AB17)
+6. **09/08/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120121AB17&version=20111AB1796ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do pass as amended. — **10–5** (pass) · upper
+- AB 17 BLUMENFIELD Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **47–27** (pass) · lower
+- 2nd Reading AB17 Blumenfield By Leno — **23–14** (pass) · upper
+- AB 17 BLUMENFIELD Assembly Third Reading — **49–21** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Blumenfield — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2011-05-19** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2011-05-20** From printer.
+- **2011-06-02** Without reference to committee. `referral-committee`
+- **2011-06-02** Ordered to second reading.
+- **2011-06-02** (Page 171.)
+- **2011-06-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2011-06-03** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 49. Noes 21. Page 176.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
+- **2011-06-06** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2011-06-08** Referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `referral-committee`
+- **2011-09-02** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2011-09-06** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 5.) (September 6). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2011-09-07** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
+- **2011-09-07** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 23. Noes 14. Page 232.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
+- **2011-09-07** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
+- **2011-09-08** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 47. Noes 27. Page 315.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
+- **2011-09-12** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
+- **2011-09-20** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2011-09-21** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 12, Statutes of 2011-12 First Extraordinary Session.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/01237162-267f-4f29-9d99-ae22a3662569`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
+