republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/ab-278.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "California Conservation Corps: community conservation corps: applicant selection: parolees."
description: "Existing law authorizes the Director of the California Conservation Corps, in implementing the California Conservation Corps program, to recruit and enroll corpsmembers and special corpsmembers and to adopt criteria for selecting applicants for enrollment, including individuals convicted of a crime described in the California Uniform Controlled Substances Act. Existing law requires the director, when adopting this criteria, to take into account the health, safety, and welfare of the public and the corps program participants and staff. Existing law authorizes the director to select an applicant for enrollment in the corps program who is on probation, postrelease community supervision, or mandatory supervision."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 278"
citation: "California AB 278 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["California Conservation Corps: community conservation corps: applicant selection: parolees."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McCarty"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 24
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2019-01-28"
last_action: "2019-10-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c4fbd9d2-6e79-4eaf-b9e4-f604a2d455e5"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB278"
source_hash: "b1949bf53d3e838f77ba144dd99be44eea00bb06c1085a5ee5d95c99eb216f4e"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 278 (20192020) — California Conservation Corps: community conservation corps: applicant selection: parolees.

Existing law authorizes the Director of the California Conservation Corps, in implementing the California Conservation Corps program, to recruit and enroll corpsmembers and special corpsmembers and to adopt criteria for selecting applicants for enrollment, including individuals convicted of a crime described in the California Uniform Controlled Substances Act. Existing law requires the director, when adopting this criteria, to take into account the health, safety, and welfare of the public and the corps program participants and staff. Existing law authorizes the director to select an applicant for enrollment in the corps program who is on probation, postrelease community supervision, or mandatory supervision.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/28/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB278&version=20190AB27899INT)
2. **03/18/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB278&version=20190AB27898AMD)
3. **08/13/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB278&version=20190AB27897AMD)
4. **10/08/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB278&version=20190AB27895CHP)
5. **AB278** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB278)
6. **09/10/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB278&version=20190AB27896ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 278 McCarty Assembly Third Reading — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **6–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 278 McCarty Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB278 McCarty et al. By Durazo — **37–3** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- McCarty — primary (person)
- Diep — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-28** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2019-01-29** From printer. May be heard in committee February 28.
- **2019-02-07** Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-18** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-03-19** Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (March 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-03** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-16** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-05-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1792.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-05-29** Referred to Com. on N.R. & W. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-11** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2019-08-12** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (July 9). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-08-13** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-08-19** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2019-08-30** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (August 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-08-30** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-09-04** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 3. Page 2514.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-05** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 7 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2019-09-09** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3165.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-09-12** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2019-10-08** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-10-08** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 571, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c4fbd9d2-6e79-4eaf-b9e4-f604a2d455e5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).