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Bill	Controlled substances: sentencing.	Existing law prohibits a person from using or being under the influence of certain controlled substances, except as specified. A person convicted of violating this prohibition is guilty of a misdemeanor and the court is required to sentence the person to not less than 90 days or more than one year in a county jail. The court is authorized to place a person convicted under this provision on probation for not more than 5 years, and the court is required, as a condition of granting probation, to order the person to serve at least 90 days in a county jail. The court is prohibited, except with regards to specified drug treatment provisions, from absolving a person convicted under this provision from serving at least 90 days in a county jail.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 2492	California AB 2492 (20132014)	bill	Controlled substances: sentencing.	enacted	Jones-Sawyer	5	18	6	2014-02-21	2014-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/7653a996-fa30-416c-96d2-828d577f66ce	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2492	8b1d1f9d7bd10b7f743b52e281d6369e324f4270526b49731364069290a83bbf	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2492 (20132014) — Controlled substances: sentencing.

Existing law prohibits a person from using or being under the influence of certain controlled substances, except as specified. A person convicted of violating this prohibition is guilty of a misdemeanor and the court is required to sentence the person to not less than 90 days or more than one year in a county jail. The court is authorized to place a person convicted under this provision on probation for not more than 5 years, and the court is required, as a condition of granting probation, to order the person to serve at least 90 days in a county jail. The court is prohibited, except with regards to specified drug treatment provisions, from absolving a person convicted under this provision from serving at least 90 days in a county jail.

Version chain

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

1. 02/21/14 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/28/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 09/29/14 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB2492 (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/25/14 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB2492 Jones-Sawyer By Mitchell Lay on Table — 23–10 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2492 Jones-Sawyer By Mitchell — 21–11 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 2492 JONES-SAWYER Assembly Third Reading — 48–23 (pass) · lower
• AB 2492 JONES-SAWYER Assembly Third Reading Amend By JONES-SAWYER Set #1 — 67–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 5–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jones-Sawyer — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-02-21 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2014-02-23 From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
• 2014-02-24 Read first time. reading-1
• 2014-03-13 Referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2014-05-08 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (May 7). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2014-05-12 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-05-28 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Ayes 67. Noes 2. Page 5226.) reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-05-29 Assembly Rule 69(d) suspended. (Ayes 55. Noes 21. Page 5325.)
• 2014-05-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 48. Noes 23. Page 5332.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-05-29 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2014-06-11 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2014-06-25 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 24). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2014-06-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-08-21 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 21. Noes 11. Page 4690.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-08-21 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2014-09-05 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2014-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2014-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 819, Statutes of 2014.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7653a996-fa30-416c-96d2-828d577f66ce. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).