---
type: "Bill"
title: "Postrelease community supervision: flash incarceration: city jails."
description: "Existing law requires that persons released from prison be subject either to parole for a specified period of time or to postrelease community supervision for a period not exceeding 3 years. Existing law specifies the conditions of postrelease community supervision and permits each county agency responsible for postrelease supervision to determine an appropriate response to alleged violations, including flash incarceration in a county jail. Existing law provides for review of an alleged parole violation and likewise allows the supervising parole agency to impose additional conditions of supervision, including flash incarceration in a county jail. Existing law defines flash incarceration for these purposes as a period of detention in a county jail ranging from one to 10 days due to a violation of an offender's conditions of release."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 986"
citation: "California AB 986 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Postrelease community supervision: flash incarceration: city jails."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bradford"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2013-02-22"
last_action: "2013-10-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7f0094a9-e919-4bc3-9e19-bf90eb9880a1"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB986"
source_hash: "b42821bbbbd59249e3e7a504bd391c74c3d5a816c46c03a8720c674c4ee8523e"
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 986 (20132014) — Postrelease community supervision: flash incarceration: city jails.

Existing law requires that persons released from prison be subject either to parole for a specified period of time or to postrelease community supervision for a period not exceeding 3 years. Existing law specifies the conditions of postrelease community supervision and permits each county agency responsible for postrelease supervision to determine an appropriate response to alleged violations, including flash incarceration in a county jail. Existing law provides for review of an alleged parole violation and likewise allows the supervising parole agency to impose additional conditions of supervision, including flash incarceration in a county jail. Existing law defines flash incarceration for these purposes as a period of detention in a county jail ranging from one to 10 days due to a violation of an offender's conditions of release.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/22/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB986&version=20130AB98699INT)
2. **05/15/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB986&version=20130AB98698AMD)
3. **09/06/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB986&version=20130AB98697AMD)
4. **10/13/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB986&version=20130AB98695CHP)
5. **AB986** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB986)
6. **09/18/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB986&version=20130AB98696ENR)

## Votes

- AB 986 BRADFORD Consent Calendar Second Day — **74–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 986 BRADFORD Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, to Consent Calendar. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB986 Bradford By Lieu — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bradford — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-02-22** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2013-02-24** From printer. May be heard in committee March 26.
- **2013-02-25** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2013-03-07** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2013-05-14** From committee: Do pass as amended. To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (May 7). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-05-15** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-05-16** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-05-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1576.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-05-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2013-06-06** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2013-06-18** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 18). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-06-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-09-06** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-09-09** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-09-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2358.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-09-11** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2013-09-12** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3301.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2013-09-26** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2013-10-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2013-10-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 788, Statutes of 2013.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7f0094a9-e919-4bc3-9e19-bf90eb9880a1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).