republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/ab-116.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Criminal justice realignment."
description: "Existing law creates the California Council on Criminal Justice with certain powers and duties. SB 92 of the 2011–12 Regular Session would eliminate the California Council on Criminal Justice and assign its powers and duties to the Board of State and Community Corrections."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 116"
citation: "California AB 116 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Criminal justice realignment."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Budget"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 24
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2011-01-10"
last_action: "2011-07-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5ac8c8f9-55a5-4bdd-b2c5-fa95fd57ef57"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB116"
source_hash: "d2a44157ac5992d44be19e527a23c1ad08bafd3d4bc04ae810696b2c0e10c46d"
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 116 (20112012) — Criminal justice realignment.

Existing law creates the California Council on Criminal Justice with certain powers and duties. SB 92 of the 2011–12 Regular Session would eliminate the California Council on Criminal Justice and assign its powers and duties to the Board of State and Community Corrections.

## 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=201120120AB116&version=20110AB11699INT)
2. **06/08/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB116&version=20110AB11698AMD)
3. **06/28/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB116&version=20110AB11697AMD)
4. **07/06/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB116&version=20110AB11696AMD)
5. **07/27/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB116&version=20110AB11694CHP)
6. **AB116** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB116)
7. **07/14/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB116&version=20110AB11695ENR)

## Votes

- AB 116 BUDGET Concurrence in Senate Amendments By BLUMENFIELD — **50–27** (pass) · lower
- AB 116 BUDGET Assembly Third Reading By BLUMENFIELD — **49–0** (pass) · lower
- 2nd Reading AB116 Committee on BUDGET (Blumenfield) By Leno — **24–15** (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 422.) `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`
- **2011-06-08** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-06-09** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-06-28** Pursuant to Joint Rule 33.1, Joint Rule 10.5 suspended. (Page 1613.)
- **2011-06-28** Senate Rule 29.3 suspended. (Ayes 21. Noes 14. Page 1613.)
- **2011-06-28** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-06-29** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-07-06** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-07-07** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-07-07** Pursuant to Joint Rule 33.1, Joint Rule 10.5 suspended. (Page 1749.)
- **2011-07-07** Senate Rule 29.3 suspended. (Ayes 21. Noes 14. Page 1749.)
- **2011-07-07** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 24. Noes 15. Page 1751.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-07-07** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 9 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2011-07-14** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 50. Noes 27. Page 2316.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2011-07-15** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12:15 p.m.
- **2011-07-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2011-07-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 136, Statutes of 2011.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5ac8c8f9-55a5-4bdd-b2c5-fa95fd57ef57`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).