---
type: "Bill"
title: "Criminal Justice Realignment of 2011."
description: "(1) Existing law, if Chapter 15 of the Statutes of 2011 becomes operative, provides that, except for persons with a prior or current felony conviction for serious or violent felony, persons required to register as sex offenders, or persons convicted of a crime as part of a sentence enhancement, as specified, a felony punishable pursuant to specified provisions where the term is not specified in the underlying offense shall be punishable by a term of imprisonment is a county in a county jail for 16 months, or 2 or 3 years and a felony punishable by a term of imprisonment described in the underlying offense shall be punishable by imprisonment in a county jail. Those persons excepted from this requirement are subject to imprisonment in the state prison."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012 Special Session 1"
identifier: "AB 17"
citation: "California AB 17 (20112012 Special Session 1)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Criminal Justice Realignment of 2011."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blumenfield"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2011-05-19"
last_action: "2011-09-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/01237162-267f-4f29-9d99-ae22a3662569"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120121AB17"
source_hash: "7b7ead42ffd1080024f4f0f24deb0d3747b3115ecd1b905b1cc24ce042a5a701"
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 17 (20112012 Special Session 1) — Criminal Justice Realignment of 2011.

(1) Existing law, if Chapter 15 of the Statutes of 2011 becomes operative, provides that, except for persons with a prior or current felony conviction for serious or violent felony, persons required to register as sex offenders, or persons convicted of a crime as part of a sentence enhancement, as specified, a felony punishable pursuant to specified provisions where the term is not specified in the underlying offense shall be punishable by a term of imprisonment is a county in a county jail for 16 months, or 2 or 3 years and a felony punishable by a term of imprisonment described in the underlying offense shall be punishable by imprisonment in a county jail. Those persons excepted from this requirement are subject to imprisonment in the state prison.

## Version chain

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

1. **05/19/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120121AB17&version=20111AB1799INT)
2. **09/02/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120121AB17&version=20111AB1798AMD)
3. **09/07/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120121AB17&version=20111AB1797AMD)
4. **09/21/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120121AB17&version=20111AB1795CHP)
5. **AB17** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120121AB17)
6. **09/08/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120121AB17&version=20111AB1796ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended. — **10–5** (pass) · upper
- AB 17 BLUMENFIELD Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **47–27** (pass) · lower
- 2nd Reading AB17 Blumenfield By Leno — **23–14** (pass) · upper
- AB 17 BLUMENFIELD Assembly Third Reading — **49–21** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Blumenfield — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-05-19** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2011-05-20** From printer.
- **2011-06-02** Without reference to committee. `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-02** Ordered to second reading.
- **2011-06-02** (Page 171.)
- **2011-06-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-06-03** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 49. Noes 21. Page 176.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-06-06** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2011-06-08** Referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `referral-committee`
- **2011-09-02** 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`
- **2011-09-06** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 5.) (September 6). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-09-07** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-09-07** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 23. Noes 14. Page 232.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-09-07** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2011-09-08** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 47. Noes 27. Page 315.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2011-09-12** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
- **2011-09-20** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2011-09-21** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 12, Statutes of 2011-12 First Extraordinary Session.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/01237162-267f-4f29-9d99-ae22a3662569`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).