republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-857.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vocational services: formerly incarcerated persons."
description: "Existing law establishes the Department of Rehabilitation to provide specified services to eligible individuals with physical or mental disabilities. Existing law defines vocational rehabilitation services for these purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 857"
citation: "California AB 857 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vocational services", "formerly incarcerated persons"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ortega"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 24
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2023-02-14"
last_action: "2023-09-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/403dbf49-0232-4eb9-a1e0-278abb0f3e4c"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB857"
source_hash: "2e3763fe4edbe651033bf30bb654dcfacf20ec68b3647afc114ea69f3626526d"
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 857 (20232024) — Vocational services: formerly incarcerated persons.

Existing law establishes the Department of Rehabilitation to provide specified services to eligible individuals with physical or mental disabilities. Existing law defines vocational rehabilitation services for these purposes.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/14/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB857&version=20230AB85799INT)
2. **04/03/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB857&version=20230AB85798AMD)
3. **06/21/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB857&version=20230AB85797AMD)
4. **09/08/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB857&version=20230AB85795CHP)
5. **AB857** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB857)
6. **08/25/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB857&version=20230AB85796ENR)

## Votes

- Consent Calendar 2nd — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Human Services] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 857 Ortega Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 857 Ortega Consent Calendar Second Day — **76–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ortega — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2023-02-15** From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
- **2023-02-23** Referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-28** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2023-04-03** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-04-04** Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-03** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2023-05-17** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 17). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-18** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-05-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1811.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-05-26** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2023-06-07** Referred to Coms. on PUB S. and HUMAN S. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-20** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HUMAN S. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 20). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-21** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-07-05** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-08-14** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2023-08-15** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-08-17** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2140.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-08-17** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 19 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2023-08-24** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2784.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-08-30** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:15 p.m.
- **2023-09-08** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2023-09-08** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 167, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/403dbf49-0232-4eb9-a1e0-278abb0f3e4c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).