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Bill	Prisoners: employment: bereavement.	Existing law requires every able-bodied prisoner imprisoned in a state prison to work as many hours of faithful labor in each day and every day during their term of imprisonment as prescribed by the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in departmental rules and regulations.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 2624	California AB 2624 (20232024)	bill	Prisoners bereavement employment	enacted	Waldron	7	25	6	2024-02-14	2024-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/1a01ffa9-1e1c-4855-92c2-bcd8e9b8aa78	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2624	86aec86f2eb76bb340a811fe378ebec466b1a310684961355ce1279d260d7d95	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2624 (20232024) — Prisoners: employment: bereavement.

Existing law requires every able-bodied prisoner imprisoned in a state prison to work as many hours of faithful labor in each day and every day during their term of imprisonment as prescribed by the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in departmental rules and regulations.

Version chain

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

1. 02/14/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/24/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/13/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/01/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/27/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB2624 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/29/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2624 Waldron By Durazo — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2624 Waldron Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2624 Waldron Consent Calendar Second Day — 65–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 14–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Waldron — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-14 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2024-02-15 From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
• 2024-03-04 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2024-04-23 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 16). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-04-24 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-04-25 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2024-05-01 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 1). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-05-02 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 0. Page 5160.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-05-09 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2024-05-22 Referred to Com. on PUB S. referral-committee
• 2024-06-12 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 11). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-06-13 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-06-18 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2024-06-27 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2024-07-01 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-08-05 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2024-08-06 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-26 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2024-08-27 Assembly Rule 77 suspended.
• 2024-08-27 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-09-05 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2024-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 727, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1a01ffa9-1e1c-4855-92c2-bcd8e9b8aa78. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).