---
type: "Bill"
title: "Criminal justice realignment."
description: "Existing law, commencing with the 2012–13 fiscal year, requires the Controller to allocate 96.015% of the funds allocated to the Juvenile Justice Subaccount from the Local Revenue Fund 2011 to the Youthful Offender Block Grant Special Account, and to allocate 3.085% of the funds in that subaccount to the Juvenile Reentry Grant Special Account, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 1496"
citation: "California AB 1496 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Criminal justice realignment."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Budget"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 30
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2012-01-10"
last_action: "2012-09-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/65448947-b122-4e5e-b3e9-f2d1dc5eaf87"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1496"
source_hash: "d14c2d92aee92249ee87f67c1cb6c289b346dabbd2cec96a676d0a9547cac4bb"
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 1496 (20112012) — Criminal justice realignment.

Existing law, commencing with the 2012–13 fiscal year, requires the Controller to allocate 96.015% of the funds allocated to the Juvenile Justice Subaccount from the Local Revenue Fund 2011 to the Youthful Offender Block Grant Special Account, and to allocate 3.085% of the funds in that subaccount to the Juvenile Reentry Grant Special Account, as specified.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/10/12 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1496&version=20110AB149699INT)
2. **06/25/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1496&version=20110AB149698AMD)
3. **06/26/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1496&version=20110AB149697AMD)
4. **07/05/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1496&version=20110AB149696AMD)
5. **08/21/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1496&version=20110AB149695AMD)
6. **09/28/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1496&version=20110AB149693CHP)
7. **AB1496** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1496)
8. **09/11/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1496&version=20110AB149694ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended. — **11–5** (pass) · upper
- AB 1496 BUDGET Concurrence in Senate Amendments By BLUMENFIELD — **50–26** (pass) · lower
- AB 1496 BUDGET Assembly Third Reading By BLUMENFIELD — **47–23** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **11–5** (pass) · upper
- From Committee: That the measure be returned to the Senate floor for consideration. — **9–3** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB1496 Committee on BUDGET (Blumenfield) By Leno — **25–13** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Committee on Budget — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2012-01-10** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2012-01-11** From printer. May be heard in committee February 10.
- **2012-02-09** Referred to Com. on BUDGET. `referral-committee`
- **2012-03-19** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 46. Noes 24. Page 4011.)
- **2012-03-19** Assembly Rule 96 suspended. (Ayes 46. Noes 24. Page 4011.)
- **2012-03-19** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2012-03-19** Ordered to second reading.
- **2012-03-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-03-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 47. Noes 23. Page 4098.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-03-22** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2012-04-19** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2012-06-07** Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `referral-committee`
- **2012-06-25** 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`
- **2012-06-26** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 5.) (June 26). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-06-26** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-07-05** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-07-06** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-08-21** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-08-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-08-23** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10. `referral-committee`
- **2012-08-23** From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2012-08-24** From committee: Return to Senate floor for consideration. (Ayes 9. Noes 3.) (August 23). `committee-passage`
- **2012-08-24** Ordered to third reading.
- **2012-08-28** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 25. Noes 13. Page 4904.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-08-28** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2012-08-29** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6488.)
- **2012-08-29** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 50. Noes 26. Page 6549.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2012-09-13** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2012-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2012-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 717, Statutes of 2012.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/65448947-b122-4e5e-b3e9-f2d1dc5eaf87`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).