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Bill	Criminal penalties: nonpayment of fines.	Existing law permits a judgment against a criminal defendant that orders the defendant to pay a fine, other than a restitution fine or order, to also direct that he or she be imprisoned until the fine is satisfied. Existing law requires the judgment to specify the term of imprisonment for nonpayment of the fine, and prohibits that term from exceeding one day for each $125 of the fine, or exceeding the term for which the defendant may be sentenced for the offense of which he or she has been convicted.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 2839	California AB 2839 (20152016)	bill	Criminal penalties: nonpayment of fines.	enacted	Thurmond	6	24	7	2016-02-19	2016-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/19cedcb2-3d74-47b5-8964-b721630ecf4f	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2839	9cb3ff9af48487931ec65a2c4d1378b6090e5eec804a7baededb3e5b134e4922	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2839 (20152016) — Criminal penalties: nonpayment of fines.

Existing law permits a judgment against a criminal defendant that orders the defendant to pay a fine, other than a restitution fine or order, to also direct that he or she be imprisoned until the fine is satisfied. Existing law requires the judgment to specify the term of imprisonment for nonpayment of the fine, and prohibits that term from exceeding one day for each $125 of the fine, or exceeding the term for which the defendant may be sentenced for the offense of which he or she has been convicted.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/17/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/13/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/28/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB2839 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/22/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2839 Thurmond By Leno — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2839 THURMOND Consent Calendar Second Day — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Thurmond — primary (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
• 2016-03-17 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2016-03-17 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
• 2016-03-28 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2016-04-12 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2016-04-13 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
• 2016-04-14 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2016-04-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-04 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (May 4). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-05 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 4790.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-05-12 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-05-19 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2016-06-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (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: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-19 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 5161.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-19 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2016-08-25 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
• 2016-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 769, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/19cedcb2-3d74-47b5-8964-b721630ecf4f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).