republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/ab-952.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Youth Offender Program Camp Pilot Program."
description: "Existing law authorizes the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to prescribe rules and adopt regulations for the administration of the prisons and administration of the parole of specified persons. Existing law provides that in general, these regulations shall be adopted pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act, but exempts from that requirement regulations relating to pilot programs that are legislatively authorized or mandated, or departmentally authorized, as specified. Existing law requires a regulation adopted under that exemption to be repealed by operation of law, 2 years after the commencement of the pilot program being implemented unless the regulation is adopted, amended, or repealed pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "AB 952"
citation: "California AB 952 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["YouthOffenderProgramCampPilotProgram"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Elhawary"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-02-20"
last_action: "2025-10-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e974dca9-d3ec-4451-990e-41257848d6d9"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB952"
source_hash: "daee2da96d3ff08707eccc88a49a67597803bc738fc2b37c21de535694e0f49f"
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 952 (20252026) — Youth Offender Program Camp Pilot Program.

Existing law authorizes the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to prescribe rules and adopt regulations for the administration of the prisons and administration of the parole of specified persons. Existing law provides that in general, these regulations shall be adopted pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act, but exempts from that requirement regulations relating to pilot programs that are legislatively authorized or mandated, or departmentally authorized, as specified. Existing law requires a regulation adopted under that exemption to be repealed by operation of law, 2 years after the commencement of the pilot program being implemented unless the regulation is adopted, amended, or repealed pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/20/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB952&version=20250AB95299INT)
2. **10/13/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB952&version=20250AB95297CHP)
3. **AB952** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB952)
4. **09/10/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB952&version=20250AB95298ENR)

## Votes

- AB 952 Elhawary Consent Calendar Second Day — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB952 Elhawary By Seyarto — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **15–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Elhawary — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-20** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2025-02-21** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- **2025-03-10** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-23** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 23). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-24** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-05-01** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1387.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-05-01** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-14** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-23** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2025-06-24** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-09-08** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2580.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-09-08** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2025-09-15** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2025-10-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-10-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 718, 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/e974dca9-d3ec-4451-990e-41257848d6d9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).