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Bill	Sex crimes: mandatory prison sentence.	Existing law prohibits a court from granting probation or suspending the execution or imposition of a sentence if a person is convicted of violating specified provisions of law, including rape by force, pandering, aggravated sexual assault of a child, and others.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 2888	California AB 2888 (20152016)	bill	Sex crimes: mandatory prison sentence.	enacted	Low	7	28	9	2016-02-29	2016-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/82d2d6e2-e81a-44b3-b872-70ddae3a981c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2888	ada6d81fe9ae650e23a6b9b7d87ba4d3394d3539209f4866b21e86481624af0d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2888 (20152016) — Sex crimes: mandatory prison sentence.

Existing law prohibits a court from granting probation or suspending the execution or imposition of a sentence if a person is convicted of violating specified provisions of law, including rape by force, pandering, aggravated sexual assault of a child, and others.

Version chain

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

1. 02/29/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/16/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/21/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/02/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/30/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB2888 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/30/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB2888 Low By Beall — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2888 LOW Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 19–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2888 AGRI. Consent Calendar Second Day — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — 5–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 10–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Low — primary (person)
• Anderson — coauthor (person)
• Beall — coauthor (person)
• Bonta — coauthor (person)
• Campos — coauthor (person)
• Dodd — author (person)
• Hill — coauthor (person)
• Stone — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-29 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2016-03-01 From printer. May be heard in committee March 31.
• 2016-03-28 Referred to Com. on AGRI. referral-committee
• 2016-04-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-04-27 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (April 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-04-28 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-05 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 4688.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-05-05 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-05-12 Referred to Com. on AGRI. referral-committee
• 2016-06-16 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2016-06-16 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on AGRI. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-20 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2016-06-20 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2016-06-21 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2016-06-21 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-01 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 28). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-02 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-08 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
• 2016-08-16 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 5026.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-16 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 18 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-08-18 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2016-08-23 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 23). committee-passage
• 2016-08-29 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 1. Page 6336.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-09-07 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2016-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 863, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/82d2d6e2-e81a-44b3-b872-70ddae3a981c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).