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Bill	Mandatory supervision.	Existing law authorizes a court, when sentencing a person to county jail for a felony, to commit the person to county jail for either the full term in custody, as specified, or to suspend the execution of a concluding portion of the term selected at the court's discretion. Under existing law, this period of suspended execution is supervised by the county probation officer and is known as mandatory supervision.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 579	California AB 579 (20132014)	bill	Mandatory supervision.	enacted	Melendez	8	23	6	2013-02-20	2014-04-28	openstates	ocd-bill/2c3bd0ee-f5bd-4e90-af1e-b1a2a428e966	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB579	6cf6c5f9b57b41ed3ab002bf9c095277daf28ff0c700171e5c23dd9dd582cf79	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 579 (20132014) — Mandatory supervision.

Existing law authorizes a court, when sentencing a person to county jail for a felony, to commit the person to county jail for either the full term in custody, as specified, or to suspend the execution of a concluding portion of the term selected at the court's discretion. Under existing law, this period of suspended execution is supervised by the county probation officer and is known as mandatory supervision.

Version chain

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

1. 02/20/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/06/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 01/15/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 03/14/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 04/11/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 04/28/14 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB579 (committee substitute) — source
8. 04/10/14 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, to Consent Calendar. — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 2–3 (fail) · lower
• AB 579 MELENDEZ Consent Calendar Second Day — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Set first hearing. Failed passage. Reconsideration granted. — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB579 Melendez By Nielsen Urgency Clause — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Melendez — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-20 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2013-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
• 2013-03-14 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2013-03-14 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-03-18 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2013-04-11 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-04-15 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2013-04-16 In committee: Set first hearing. Failed passage. Reconsideration granted.
• 2014-01-06 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-01-07 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2014-01-14 From committee: Do pass as amended. To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (January 14). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-01-15 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-01-16 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-01-21 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 3637.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-01-21 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2014-02-06 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2014-03-25 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 25). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2014-03-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-04-07 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 3073.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-04-07 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2014-04-21 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2014-04-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2014-04-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 12, Statutes of 2014.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2c3bd0ee-f5bd-4e90-af1e-b1a2a428e966. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).