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Bill	Criminal procedure: recall of sentencing.	Existing law authorizes a court on its own motion and within 120 days after sentencing, or at any time upon the recommendation of the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation or the Board of Parole Hearings in the case of state prison inmates, or the county correctional administrator in the case of county jail inmates, to recall the sentence of a defendant who has been committed to state prison or county jail and resentence that defendant to a lesser sentence, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2942	California AB 2942 (20172018)	bill	Criminal procedure: recall of sentencing.	enacted	Ting	7	24	8	2018-02-16	2018-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/d0172330-2aec-40ef-883f-3abe8bd09d62	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2942	c1d1bc98face4bf7ddc5cd43cb2bd3fe7a7238a2f83a9b0cec8cea4644c14d55	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2942 (20172018) — Criminal procedure: recall of sentencing.

Existing law authorizes a court on its own motion and within 120 days after sentencing, or at any time upon the recommendation of the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation or the Board of Parole Hearings in the case of state prison inmates, or the county correctional administrator in the case of county jail inmates, to recall the sentence of a defendant who has been committed to state prison or county jail and resentence that defendant to a lesser sentence, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/02/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/08/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/17/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/30/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB2942 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/29/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended — 6–1 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2942 Ting et al. By Skinner — 33–6 (pass) · upper
• AB 2942 TING Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 53–23 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2942 TING Assembly Third Reading — 45–27 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 12–4 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ting — primary (person)
• Carrillo — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2018-03-08 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2018-04-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-05-02 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-05-03 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2018-05-08 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-05-09 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2018-05-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (May 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-05-17 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-05-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 45. Noes 27. Page 5474.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-05-31 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-06-13 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2018-06-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-08-06 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2018-08-17 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (August 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-08-17 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 6. Page 5599.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-22 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2018-08-27 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 53. Noes 23. Page 6640.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-05 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2018-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 1001, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d0172330-2aec-40ef-883f-3abe8bd09d62. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).