republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/ab-111.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Criminal justice realignment."
description: "Existing law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, participating counties, and the State Public Works Board to acquire, design, and construct local jail facilities approved by the Corrections Standards Authority. Existing law authorizes the State Public Works Board to issue revenue bonds, notes, or bond anticipation notes in the amounts of $750,000,000 and $470,000,000 to finance the acquisition, design, or construction, and a reasonable construction reserve, of approved local jail facilities, as specified. The funds derived from those revenue bonds, notes, or bond anticipation notes are continuously appropriated for the purposes described above. Existing law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the Corrections Standards Authority to give funding preference to counties that assist the state in siting specified facilities. Existing law also prohibits the department and the authority from awarding funds pursuant to these provisions until specified construction progress and siting requirements are met."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 111"
citation: "California AB 111 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Criminal justice realignment."]
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/0ee0e93b-1705-4829-8a82-4acb15645db6"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB111"
source_hash: "92b8b2617d5a0b07efe6670a686863209cbae5d08c06f109e25d4478636e6f02"
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 111 (20112012) — Criminal justice realignment.

Existing law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, participating counties, and the State Public Works Board to acquire, design, and construct local jail facilities approved by the Corrections Standards Authority. Existing law authorizes the State Public Works Board to issue revenue bonds, notes, or bond anticipation notes in the amounts of $750,000,000 and $470,000,000 to finance the acquisition, design, or construction, and a reasonable construction reserve, of approved local jail facilities, as specified. The funds derived from those revenue bonds, notes, or bond anticipation notes are continuously appropriated for the purposes described above. Existing law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the Corrections Standards Authority to give funding preference to counties that assist the state in siting specified facilities. Existing law also prohibits the department and the authority from awarding funds pursuant to these provisions until specified construction progress and siting requirements are met.

## 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=201120120AB111&version=20110AB11199INT)
2. **03/14/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB111&version=20110AB11198AMD)
3. **03/17/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB111&version=20110AB11197AMD)
4. **04/04/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB111&version=20110AB11195CHP)
5. **AB111** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB111)
6. **03/21/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB111&version=20110AB11196ENR)

## Votes

- AB 111 BUDGET Concurrence in Senate Amendments By BLUMENFIELD — **52–23** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB111 Committee on BUDGET (Blumenfield) By Leno Urgency Clause — **25–14** (fail) · upper
- AB 111 BUDGET Assembly Third Reading By BLUMENFIELD — **49–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB111 Committee on BUDGET (Blumenfield) By Leno — **25–14** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **11–5** (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 420.) `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 25. Noes 14. Page 371.) `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 25. Noes 14. Page 372.). `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. (Page 615.)
- **2011-03-17** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 52. Noes 23. Page 616.). `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 16, Statutes of 2011.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0ee0e93b-1705-4829-8a82-4acb15645db6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).