republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/ab-109.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Criminal justice alignment."
description: "(1) Existing law defines a felony as a crime which is punishable with death or by imprisonment in the state prison. Existing law also provides that except in cases where a different punishment is prescribed by law, every offense declared to be a felony, or to be punishable by imprisonment in a state prison, is punishable by imprisonment in any of the state prisons for 16 months, or 2 or 3 years. Every offense which is prescribed to be a felony punishable by imprisonment in any of the state prisons or by a fine, but without an alternate sentence to the county jail, may be punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year or by a fine, or by both."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 109"
citation: "California AB 109 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Criminal justice alignment."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Budget"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2011-01-10"
last_action: "2011-04-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a21e2cf8-91af-4c27-8bcb-b562ba2aaef7"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB109"
source_hash: "e2b3bd915cc1e21a6fde95ea54c89f22f6b96a396ad504703565c1dd1edbacec"
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 109 (20112012) — Criminal justice alignment.

(1) Existing law defines a felony as a crime which is punishable with death or by imprisonment in the state prison. Existing law also provides that except in cases where a different punishment is prescribed by law, every offense declared to be a felony, or to be punishable by imprisonment in a state prison, is punishable by imprisonment in any of the state prisons for 16 months, or 2 or 3 years. Every offense which is prescribed to be a felony punishable by imprisonment in any of the state prisons or by a fine, but without an alternate sentence to the county jail, may be punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year or by a fine, or by both.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/10/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB109&version=20110AB10999INT)
2. **03/14/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB109&version=20110AB10998AMD)
3. **03/17/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB109&version=20110AB10997AMD)
4. **04/04/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB109&version=20110AB10995CHP)
5. **AB109** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB109)
6. **03/29/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB109&version=20110AB10996ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB109 Committee on BUDGET (Blumenfield) By Leno Urgency Clause — **24–15** (fail) · upper
- AB 109 BUDGET Assembly Third Reading By BLUMENFIELD — **49–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 109 BUDGET Concurrence in Senate Amendments By BLUMENFIELD — **51–27** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **11–5** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB109 Committee on BUDGET (Blumenfield) By Leno — **24–16** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Committee on Budget — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-01-10** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2011-01-11** From printer. May be heard in committee February 10.
- **2011-02-18** Without reference to committee. `referral-committee`
- **2011-02-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-02-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 49. Noes 0. Page 419.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-02-22** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2011-03-07** Ordered to second reading.
- **2011-03-07** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-03-14** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-03-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-03-16** Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5. `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-16** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 5.) (March 16). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-03-16** Ordered to third reading.
- **2011-03-17** Read third time. Urgency clause refused adoption. (Ayes 24. Noes 15. Page 369.) `reading-3, reading-1`
- **2011-03-17** Amended pursuant to Joint Rule 23.5.
- **2011-03-17** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 24. Noes 16. Page 374.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-03-17** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after March 19 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2011-03-17** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 47. Noes 24. Page 617.)
- **2011-03-17** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 51. Noes 27. Page 622.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2011-03-18** Measure version as amended on March 17 corrected. `amendment-passage`
- **2011-03-22** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
- **2011-04-04** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2011-04-04** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 15, Statutes of 2011.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a21e2cf8-91af-4c27-8bcb-b562ba2aaef7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).