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Bill	Sentencing: restorative justice.	Existing law provides legislative findings and declarations that the purpose of imprisonment for crime is punishment and that the elimination of disparity and the provision of uniformity of sentences can best be achieved by determinate sentences fixed by statute in proportion to the seriousness of the offense, as specified. Existing law further provides that, notwithstanding those provisions, the Legislature finds and declares that programs should be available for inmates, including, but not limited to, educational programs, that are designed to prepare nonviolent felony offenders for successful reentry into the community. Existing law encourages the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to give priority enrollment in programs to promote successful return to the community to inmates with short remaining terms of commitment, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 2590	California AB 2590 (20152016)	bill	Sentencing: restorative justice.	enacted	Weber	8	27	8	2016-02-19	2016-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/aade60f4-80fd-4c5f-a931-c7bf0b4ca86e	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2590	ba54278b8ea615ea3ed46a813d53c0eef557e85561a7bf7614d08e029ea5766d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2590 (20152016) — Sentencing: restorative justice.

Existing law provides legislative findings and declarations that the purpose of imprisonment for crime is punishment and that the elimination of disparity and the provision of uniformity of sentences can best be achieved by determinate sentences fixed by statute in proportion to the seriousness of the offense, as specified. Existing law further provides that, notwithstanding those provisions, the Legislature finds and declares that programs should be available for inmates, including, but not limited to, educational programs, that are designed to prepare nonviolent felony offenders for successful reentry into the community. Existing law encourages the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to give priority enrollment in programs to promote successful return to the community to inmates with short remaining terms of commitment, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/12/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/19/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/15/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/19/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/27/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2590 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/01/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 14–5 (pass) · lower
• AB 2590 WEBER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 50–27 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2590 WEBER Assembly Third Reading — 47–24 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2590 Weber By Hancock — 26–13 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Weber — primary (person)
• Atkins — coauthor (person)
• Beall — coauthor (person)
• Chu — coauthor (person)
• Hancock — principal coauthor (person)
• Mark Stone — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-19 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2016-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2016-02-22 Read first time. reading-1
• 2016-03-10 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2016-03-29 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2016-04-12 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2016-04-12 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-04-13 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2016-04-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-04 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 5.) (May 4). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-19 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 4852.) reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-05-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 47. Noes 24. Page 4950.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-05-27 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-06-09 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2016-06-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-01 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2016-08-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 11). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-15 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-19 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 26. Noes 13. Page 5418.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-26 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 50. Noes 27. Page 6461.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
• 2016-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 696, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/aade60f4-80fd-4c5f-a931-c7bf0b4ca86e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).