Under existing law, a prisoner can reduce their term of imprisonment by earning credit for, among other things, continuous incarceration, good behavior, and participation in approved rehabilitative programming. Existing law makes an inmate of a county jail or state prison who has completed training for assignment to a conservation camp, state or county facility, or a correctional institution as an inmate firefighter, or who is assigned to a state or county facility or a correctional institution as an inmate firefighter, and who is eligible to earn one day of credit for every one day of incarceration, instead eligible to earn 2 days of credit for every one day served in that assignment or after completing that training.
California AB 247 (20252026) — Incarcerated individual hand crew members: wages.
Under existing law, a prisoner can reduce their term of imprisonment by earning credit for, among other things, continuous incarceration, good behavior, and participation in approved rehabilitative programming. Existing law makes an inmate of a county jail or state prison who has completed training for assignment to a conservation camp, state or county facility, or a correctional institution as an inmate firefighter, or who is assigned to a state or county facility or a correctional institution as an inmate firefighter, and who is eligible to earn one day of credit for every one day of incarceration, instead eligible to earn 2 days of credit for every one day served in that assignment or after completing that training.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
AB 247 Bryan Assembly Third Reading — 74–0 (pass) · lower
3rd Reading AB247 Bryan et al. By Pérez Urgency Clause — 39–0 (pass) · upper
Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass as amended. — 12–2 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
Bryan — primary (person)
Addis — coauthor (person)
Alanis — coauthor (person)
Bonta — coauthor (person)
Celeste Rodriguez — coauthor (person)
Connolly — coauthor (person)
Cortese — coauthor (person)
Elhawary — coauthor (person)
Flora — principal coauthor (person)
Fong — coauthor (person)
Haney — coauthor (person)
Harabedian — coauthor (person)
Jackson — coauthor (person)
Kalra — coauthor (person)
Lee — coauthor (person)
Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
McKinnor — coauthor (person)
Pellerin — coauthor (person)
Reyes — principal coauthor (person)
Rogers — coauthor (person)
Schultz — coauthor (person)
Sharp-Collins — coauthor (person)
Solache — coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2025-01-15 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2025-01-16 From printer. May be heard in committee February 15.
2025-02-10 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
2025-03-04 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
2025-03-05 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
2025-03-06 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
2025-03-11 Coauthors revised.
2025-03-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (March 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2025-04-30 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
2025-06-03 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 3). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2025-06-04 Measure version as amended on May 28 corrected. amendment-passage
2025-06-04 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2025-06-05 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 2113.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
2025-06-09 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2025-06-18 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
2025-06-27 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. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2025-07-08 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2025-08-18 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
2025-08-29 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2025-08-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2025-09-05 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
2025-09-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2025-09-10 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2825.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
2025-09-10 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2025-09-11 Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3301.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2025-09-23 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
2025-10-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2025-10-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 681, Statutes of 2025. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fb5d78f3-c356-4b2f-8516-dbde9452b61d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).