---
type: "Bill"
title: "Employment of offenders."
description: "Employment of offenders."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20012002"
identifier: "AB 2456"
citation: "California AB 2456 (20012002)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Employment of offenders."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jackson"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 23
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2002-02-21"
last_action: "2002-07-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cb35c888-51eb-4772-8f07-86990213236d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2456"
source_hash: "832ec5cd4982856a543bbe43b0dcc0807d861bf61ab2ef9c9f3d9113bbf4edd4"
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 2456 (20012002) — Employment of offenders.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/21/02 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2456&version=20010AB245699INT)
2. **04/10/02 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2456&version=20010AB245698AMD)
3. **04/30/02 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2456&version=20010AB245697AMD)
4. **06/13/02 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2456&version=20010AB245696AMD)
5. **06/25/02 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2456&version=20010AB245695AMD)
6. **07/17/02 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2456&version=20010AB245693CHP)
7. **AB2456** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2456)
8. **06/30/02 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2456&version=20010AB245694ENR)

## Votes

- AB 2456 Jackson Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 2456 Jackson Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- SPECIAL CONSENT CALE AB2456 Jackson — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jackson — primary (person)
- Koretz — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2002-07-17** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 196, Statutes of 2002.
- **2002-07-16** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2002-07-08** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
- **2002-06-30** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 7096.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2002-06-27** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 29 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2002-06-27** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5029.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-06-25** Read second time, amended, and to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2002-06-24** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2002-06-13** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Public Safety. `reading-1, referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2002-05-23** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Safety. `referral-committee`
- **2002-05-16** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2002-05-16** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 6168.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-05-13** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2002-05-09** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 7). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2002-05-07** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2002-05-02** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Public Safety. `referral-committee`
- **2002-04-30** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Public Safety Read second time and amended. `reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2002-04-23** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2002-04-11** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Re-referred to Standing Committee on Public Safety by unanimous consent. `referral-committee`
- **2002-04-10** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Read second time and amended. `reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2002-03-21** Referred to Standing Committee on Business, Professions and Consumer Protection. `referral-committee`
- **2002-02-24** From printer. May be heard in committee March 26.
- **2002-02-21** Assembly Rule 49(a) suspended. Read first time. To print. `reading-1`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cb35c888-51eb-4772-8f07-86990213236d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).