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Bill	Jails: county inmate welfare funds.	Existing law authorizes the sheriff of each county to maintain an inmate welfare fund to be kept in the treasury of the county into which profit from a store operated in connection with the county jail, 10% of all gross sales of inmate hobbycraft, and any rebates or commissions received from a telephone company, as specified, are required to be deposited. Existing law authorizes the sheriff to expend money from the fund to assist indigent inmates, prior to release, with clothes and transportation expenses, as specified. Existing law authorizes inmate welfare funds to be used to augment county expenses determined by the sheriff to be in the best interests of the inmates, and requires the sheriff to submit an itemized report of those expenditures annually to the board of supervisors.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 920	California AB 920 (20152016)	bill	Jails: county inmate welfare funds.	enacted	Gipson	9	28	6	2015-02-26	2016-08-25	openstates	ocd-bill/b856090f-61fb-4e4e-8fbb-403701fcc53e	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB920	8dcf6ec4fd8e6ffb9b21c68b474a9400d3a3f8078895139adab74477048d3569	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 920 (20152016) — Jails: county inmate welfare funds.

Existing law authorizes the sheriff of each county to maintain an inmate welfare fund to be kept in the treasury of the county into which profit from a store operated in connection with the county jail, 10% of all gross sales of inmate hobbycraft, and any rebates or commissions received from a telephone company, as specified, are required to be deposited. Existing law authorizes the sheriff to expend money from the fund to assist indigent inmates, prior to release, with clothes and transportation expenses, as specified. Existing law authorizes inmate welfare funds to be used to augment county expenses determined by the sheriff to be in the best interests of the inmates, and requires the sheriff to submit an itemized report of those expenditures annually to the board of supervisors.

Version chain

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

1. 02/26/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/08/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/23/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/28/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/25/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/01/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/03/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. AB920 (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/16/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB920 Gipson By Stone Urgency Clause — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 920 GIPSON Concurrence - Urgency Added — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 920 GIPSON Assembly Third Reading — 78–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Gipson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-26 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2015-02-27 From printer. May be heard in committee March 29.
• 2015-03-16 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2015-04-08 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
• 2015-04-09 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2015-04-22 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 14). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-04-23 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-04-27 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2015-05-06 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2015-05-28 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 28). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-05-28 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-06-01 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-06-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1811.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-06-11 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2015-07-01 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2015-09-01 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
• 2015-09-03 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
• 2016-06-14 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 14). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-06-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-01 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4724.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-02 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 4 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-08-04 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2016-08-11 Ordered to the unfinished business file.
• 2016-08-15 Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 5807.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-18 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2016-08-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-08-25 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 178, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b856090f-61fb-4e4e-8fbb-403701fcc53e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).