---
type: "Bill"
title: "Sex crimes: mandatory prison sentence."
description: "Existing law prohibits a court from granting probation or suspending the execution or imposition of a sentence if a person is convicted of violating specified provisions of law, including rape by force, pandering, aggravated sexual assault of a child, and others."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 2888"
citation: "California AB 2888 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Sex crimes: mandatory prison sentence."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Low"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 28
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2016-02-29"
last_action: "2016-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/82d2d6e2-e81a-44b3-b872-70ddae3a981c"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2888"
source_hash: "ada6d81fe9ae650e23a6b9b7d87ba4d3394d3539209f4866b21e86481624af0d"
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 2888 (20152016) — Sex crimes: mandatory prison sentence.

Existing law prohibits a court from granting probation or suspending the execution or imposition of a sentence if a person is convicted of violating specified provisions of law, including rape by force, pandering, aggravated sexual assault of a child, and others.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/29/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2888&version=20150AB288899INT)
2. **06/16/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2888&version=20150AB288898AMD)
3. **06/21/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2888&version=20150AB288897AMD)
4. **08/02/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2888&version=20150AB288896AMD)
5. **09/30/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2888&version=20150AB288894CHP)
6. **AB2888** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2888)
7. **08/30/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2888&version=20150AB288895ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB2888 Low By Beall — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2888 LOW Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **77–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **19–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2888 AGRI. Consent Calendar Second Day — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **10–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Low — primary (person)
- Anderson — coauthor (person)
- Beall — coauthor (person)
- Bonta — coauthor (person)
- Campos — coauthor (person)
- Dodd — author (person)
- Hill — coauthor (person)
- Stone — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-02-29** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2016-03-01** From printer. May be heard in committee March 31.
- **2016-03-28** Referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2016-04-13** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-04-27** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (April 27). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-04-28** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-05-05** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 4688.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-05-05** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2016-05-12** Referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-16** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2016-06-16** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-06-20** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2016-06-20** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-21** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-21** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-01** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 28). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-08-02** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-08** Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2016-08-11** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-08-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-08-16** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 5026.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-16** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 18 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2016-08-18** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. `referral-committee`
- **2016-08-23** From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 23). `committee-passage`
- **2016-08-29** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 1. Page 6336.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2016-09-07** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2016-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 863, Statutes of 2016.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/82d2d6e2-e81a-44b3-b872-70ddae3a981c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).