---
type: "Bill"
title: "Jail Industry Authority."
description: "Existing law authorizes the board of supervisors in specified counties, as part of a pilot jail industry program not to exceed 4 years, to establish, with the concurrence of the county sheriff, a Jail Industry Commission for that county. Existing law also requires the county board of supervisors, upon the establishment of a commission, to create a Jail Industries Fund, as specified, which may be used to fund specified purposes. Existing law specifies the composition of these commissions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 2012"
citation: "California AB 2012 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Jail Industry Authority."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bigelow"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 22
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2016-02-16"
last_action: "2016-09-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fbb12782-0571-473b-b48f-924dd502aea0"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2012"
source_hash: "7007e1f43e81cb557e4f79f45c624dd4595df6578c317aa4f47e637f0adb827f"
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 2012 (20152016) — Jail Industry Authority.

Existing law authorizes the board of supervisors in specified counties, as part of a pilot jail industry program not to exceed 4 years, to establish, with the concurrence of the county sheriff, a Jail Industry Commission for that county. Existing law also requires the county board of supervisors, upon the establishment of a commission, to create a Jail Industries Fund, as specified, which may be used to fund specified purposes. Existing law specifies the composition of these commissions.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/16/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2012&version=20150AB201299INT)
2. **03/14/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2012&version=20150AB201298AMD)
3. **04/07/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2012&version=20150AB201297AMD)
4. **06/28/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2012&version=20150AB201296AMD)
5. **08/15/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2012&version=20150AB201295AMD)
6. **09/22/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2012&version=20150AB201293CHP)
7. **AB2012** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2012)
8. **08/25/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2012&version=20150AB201294ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2012 BIGELOW Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB2012 Bigelow By Hall — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2012 BIGELOW Assembly Third Reading — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bigelow — primary (person)
- Cooper — author (person)
- Hadley — principal coauthor (person)
- Jones-Sawyer — author (person)
- Santiago — coauthor (person)
- Wilk — author (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2016-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
- **2016-02-29** Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-14** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-03-15** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-30** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 29). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-03-31** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-04-07** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 4226.) `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-04-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 4260.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-04-11** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2016-04-28** Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-27** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 21). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-06-28** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-01** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2016-08-11** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-08-15** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-08-17** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5045.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-17** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 19 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2016-08-23** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6131.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2016-08-30** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2016-09-22** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-09-22** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 452, Statutes of 2016.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fbb12782-0571-473b-b48f-924dd502aea0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).