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Bill	Prisoner Protections for Family and Community Health Act.	Under existing law, the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is responsible for the administration of the state prisons. Existing law makes it a crime to engage in sodomy while incarcerated in a state prison and existing regulation prohibits inmates from participating in illegal sexual acts.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 966	California AB 966 (20132014)	bill	Prisoner Protections for Family and Community Health Act.	enacted	Bonta	5	21	7	2013-02-22	2014-09-26	openstates	ocd-bill/3aa931e9-36da-4341-808d-c2be86cba0dd	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB966	7e455296e80906e7c9fab783b926b89ba3cf6b8be2edcf5b2e09b07a0b555024	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 966 (20132014) — Prisoner Protections for Family and Community Health Act.

Under existing law, the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is responsible for the administration of the state prisons. Existing law makes it a crime to engage in sodomy while incarcerated in a state prison and existing regulation prohibits inmates from participating in illegal sexual acts.

Version chain

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

1. 02/22/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/06/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 09/26/14 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB966 (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/25/14 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 12–4 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 6–1 (pass) · lower
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB966 Bonta By Hancock — 22–12 (pass) · upper
• AB 966 BONTA Assembly Third Reading — 48–26 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bonta — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-22 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2013-02-24 From printer. May be heard in committee March 26.
• 2013-02-25 Read first time. reading-1
• 2014-01-06 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 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 and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (January 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2014-01-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (January 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2014-01-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-01-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 48. Noes 26. Page 3685.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-01-27 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2014-02-06 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2014-05-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (May 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2014-06-23 In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2014-08-14 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 14). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2014-08-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-08-21 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 22. Noes 12. Page 4718.). 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.
• 2014-09-26 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2014-09-26 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 587, Statutes of 2014.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3aa931e9-36da-4341-808d-c2be86cba0dd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).