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Bill	County jails: performance milestone credits.	Under existing law, when a prisoner is confined to a county or city jail, an industrial farm, or a road camp, for each 4-day period in which he or she is confined, he or she may have one day deducted from his or her period of confinement, as specified. Existing law also authorizes a sheriff or county director of corrections, in addition to the credits otherwise earned, to award an inmate who is sentenced to county jail for a felony, program credit reductions from his or her term of confinement for successful completion of specific program performance objectives for rehabilitative programming, including academic programs, vocational programs, vocational training, substance abuse programs, and core programs such as anger management and social life skills. These program credit reductions may be for one to 6 weeks and may be forfeited in the same manner as other program credit reductions.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 1597	California AB 1597 (20152016)	bill	County jails: performance milestone credits.	enacted	Mark Stone	6	19	5	2016-01-07	2016-06-27	openstates	ocd-bill/85f2b264-5ba4-472f-94b2-f7f152f4d98e	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1597	83b5d1e1c84bac359f1c3760333d691a13f8e40019c02c43d1de885a8e04bfed	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1597 (20152016) — County jails: performance milestone credits.

Under existing law, when a prisoner is confined to a county or city jail, an industrial farm, or a road camp, for each 4-day period in which he or she is confined, he or she may have one day deducted from his or her period of confinement, as specified. Existing law also authorizes a sheriff or county director of corrections, in addition to the credits otherwise earned, to award an inmate who is sentenced to county jail for a felony, program credit reductions from his or her term of confinement for successful completion of specific program performance objectives for rehabilitative programming, including academic programs, vocational programs, vocational training, substance abuse programs, and core programs such as anger management and social life skills. These program credit reductions may be for one to 6 weeks and may be forfeited in the same manner as other program credit reductions.

Version chain

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

1. 01/07/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/09/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/17/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/27/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB1597 (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/16/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1597 STONE Assembly Third Reading — 54–17 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 5–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 6–1 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1597 Mark Stone By Hancock — 32–7 (pass) · upper
• AB 1597 STONE Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 54–22 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Mark Stone — primary (person)
• Hancock — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-01-07 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2016-01-08 From printer. May be heard in committee February 7.
• 2016-02-01 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2016-03-08 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (March 1). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-03-09 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-03-10 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-03-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 54. Noes 17. Page 4038.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-03-28 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-04-07 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2016-05-10 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (May 10). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-17 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-05-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-06-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 7. Page 4253.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-13 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 15 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-06-16 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 54. Noes 22. Page 5397.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-06-17 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2016-06-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-06-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 36, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/85f2b264-5ba4-472f-94b2-f7f152f4d98e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).