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type: "Bill"
title: "Incarcerated individual hand crew members: wages."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "AB 247"
citation: "California AB 247 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Incarceratedindividualhandcrewmembers", "wages"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 36
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2025-01-15"
last_action: "2025-10-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fb5d78f3-c356-4b2f-8516-dbde9452b61d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB247"
source_hash: "9f15700228a15aa5ffe9e201299db8e4135f461411be8183c5a536b7a71443ea"
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 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.
1. **01/15/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB247&version=20250AB24799INT)
2. **03/05/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB247&version=20250AB24798AMD)
3. **05/23/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB247&version=20250AB24797AMD)
4. **05/28/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB247&version=20250AB24796AMD)
5. **06/27/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB247&version=20250AB24795AMD)
6. **09/05/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB247&version=20250AB24794AMD)
7. **10/13/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB247&version=20250AB24792CHP)
8. **AB247** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB247)
9. **09/15/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB247&version=20250AB24793ENR)
## Votes
- AB 247 Bryan Concurrence - Urgency Added — **780** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **60** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **80** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **90** (pass) · lower
- AB 247 Bryan Assembly Third Reading — **740** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB247 Bryan et al. By Pérez Urgency Clause — **390** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **122** (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`
- **2025-05-23** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 51. Noes 16. Page 1644.)
- **2025-05-23** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 2.) (May 23). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2025-05-23** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-05-28** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1756.) `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-06-02** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-02** Joint Rule 62(a) suspended. (Ayes 55. Noes 6. Page 1871.)
- **2025-06-03** Coauthors revised.
- **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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fb5d78f3-c356-4b2f-8516-dbde9452b61d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).