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Bill	Prisons: inmate threats.	Existing law establishes the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to oversee the state prison system. Existing law makes it a crime to willfully threaten to commit a crime that will result in death or great bodily injury to another person, with the specific intent that the statement is to be taken as a threat and which, on its face and under the circumstances in which it is made, is so unequivocal, unconditional, immediate, and specific as to convey to the person threatened a gravity of purpose and an immediate prospect of execution of the threat, and thereby causes that person reasonably to be in sustained fear for his or her own safety or for his or her immediate family's safety.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 293	California AB 293 (20152016)	bill	Prisons: inmate threats.	enacted	Levine	6	21	6	2015-02-11	2015-08-13	openstates	ocd-bill/f23d0e33-47cf-41bb-828f-f4f5fce4e08b	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB293	ef090135309a113d9bc30bf96604f8fefe5cbb93ab6305ae81d8cf371026fe1c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 293 (20152016) — Prisons: inmate threats.

Existing law establishes the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to oversee the state prison system. Existing law makes it a crime to willfully threaten to commit a crime that will result in death or great bodily injury to another person, with the specific intent that the statement is to be taken as a threat and which, on its face and under the circumstances in which it is made, is so unequivocal, unconditional, immediate, and specific as to convey to the person threatened a gravity of purpose and an immediate prospect of execution of the threat, and thereby causes that person reasonably to be in sustained fear for his or her own safety or for his or her immediate family's safety.

Version chain

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

1. 02/11/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/01/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/25/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/13/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB293 (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/13/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB293 Levine By Vidak Urgency Clause — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 293 LEVINE Concurrence - Urgency Added — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 293 LEVINE Consent Calendar Second Day — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Levine — primary (person)
• Anderson — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-11 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2015-02-12 From printer. May be heard in committee March 14.
• 2015-02-23 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2015-03-17 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (March 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-03-25 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (March 25). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-03-26 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-04-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 856.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-09 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-05-07 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2015-06-01 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
• 2015-06-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-06-22 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2015-06-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-06-25 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-07-06 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1786.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-07-06 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 8 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2015-07-09 Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2311.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-08-03 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2015-08-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-08-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 195, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f23d0e33-47cf-41bb-828f-f4f5fce4e08b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).