CA AB 247
enactedIncarcerated individual hand crew members: wages.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower
Quick answers
Did CA AB 247 pass?
Yes. CA AB 247 has been enacted into law as of 2025-10-13. Latest recorded action (2025-10-13): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 681, Statutes of 2025.
What is CA AB 247 about?
Under existing law, a prisoner can reduce their term of imprisonment by earning credit for, among other things, continuous incarceration, good behavior, and participation in approved rehabilitative programming. Existing law makes an inmate of a county jail or state prison who has completed training for assignment to a conservation camp, state or county facility, or a correctional institution as an inmate firefighter, or who is assigned to a state or county facility or a correctional institution as an inmate firefighter, and who is eligible to earn one day of credit for every one day of incarceration, instead eligible to earn 2 days of credit for every one day served in that assignment or after completing that training. Existing law authorizes a juvenile court to order placement of a ward at the Pine Grove Youth Conservation Camp if specified criteria are met, including if the county has entered into a contract with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the department has found the ward amenable. Existing law authorizes the department to enter into contracts with counties to operate the Pine Grove Youth Conservation Camp through a state-local partnership, or other management arrangement, to train justice-involved youth, as specified, in wildland firefighting skills. This bill would require an incarcerated individual hand crew member, in addition to receiving credits, and a ward or youth hand crew member placed at the Pine Grove Youth Conservation Camp to be paid an hourly wage equal to $7.25 while assigned to an active fire incident. The bill would require that wage rate to be reviewed annually. The bill would require the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and counties to maintain regulations regarding an administrative adjudication and remedy process for any disputes over sums owned pursuant to these provisions. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Who sponsors CA AB 247?
Bryan is the primary sponsor of CA AB 247, joined by 22 cosponsors.
Description
Under existing law, a prisoner can reduce their term of imprisonment by earning credit for, among other things, continuous incarceration, good behavior, and participation in approved rehabilitative programming. Existing law makes an inmate of a county jail or state prison who has completed training for assignment to a conservation camp, state or county facility, or a correctional institution as an inmate firefighter, or who is assigned to a state or county facility or a correctional institution as an inmate firefighter, and who is eligible to earn one day of credit for every one day of incarceration, instead eligible to earn 2 days of credit for every one day served in that assignment or after completing that training. Existing law authorizes a juvenile court to order placement of a ward at the Pine Grove Youth Conservation Camp if specified criteria are met, including if the county has entered into a contract with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the department has found the ward amenable. Existing law authorizes the department to enter into contracts with counties to operate the Pine Grove Youth Conservation Camp through a state-local partnership, or other management arrangement, to train justice-involved youth, as specified, in wildland firefighting skills. This bill would require an incarcerated individual hand crew member, in addition to receiving credits, and a ward or youth hand crew member placed at the Pine Grove Youth Conservation Camp to be paid an hourly wage equal to $7.25 while assigned to an active fire incident. The bill would require that wage rate to be reviewed annually. The bill would require the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and counties to maintain regulations regarding an administrative adjudication and remedy process for any disputes over sums owned pursuant to these provisions. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
- Introduced
- 2025-03-05
- Latest action
- 2025-10-13 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 681, Statutes of 2025.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Bryanauthor
- Floraprincipal coauthor
- Reyesprincipal coauthor
- Haneycoauthor
- Kalracoauthor
- Addiscoauthor
- Alaniscoauthor
- Bontacoauthor
- Connollycoauthor
- Elhawarycoauthor
- Fongcoauthor
- Harabediancoauthor
- Jacksoncoauthor
- Leecoauthor
- Lowenthalcoauthor
- McKinnorcoauthor
- Pellerincoauthor
- Celeste Rodriguezcoauthor
- Rogerscoauthor
- Schultzcoauthor
- Sharp-Collinscoauthor
- Solachecoauthor
- Cortesecoauthor
Committees
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Action timeline
2025-01-15
Read first time. To print.
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2025-01-16
From printer. May be heard in committee February 15.
2025-02-10
Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
referral-committee
2025-03-04
In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
2025-03-05
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended.
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2025-03-06
Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
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2025-03-11
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (March 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-03-11
Coauthors revised.
2025-04-30
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
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2025-05-23
Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 51. Noes 16. Page 1644.)
2025-05-23
Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
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2025-05-23
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 2.) (May 23).
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2025-05-27
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-05-28
Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1756.)
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2025-06-02
Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2.
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2025-06-02
Joint Rule 62(a) suspended. (Ayes 55. Noes 6. Page 1871.)
2025-06-03
Coauthors revised.
2025-06-03
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 3).
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2025-06-04
Measure version as amended on May 28 corrected.
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2025-06-04
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-06-05
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 2113.)
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2025-06-09
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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2025-06-18
Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
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2025-06-27
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
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2025-07-08
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-08-18
In committee: Referred to suspense file.
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2025-08-29
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29).
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2025-08-29
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-09-05
Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
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2025-09-08
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-09-10
Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2825.).
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2025-09-10
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2025-09-11
Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3301.).
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2025-09-23
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
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2025-10-13
Approved by the Governor.
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2025-10-13
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 681, Statutes of 2025.
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Versions
- 01/15/25 - Introduced — 2025-01-15Compare
- 03/05/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-03-05Compare
- 05/23/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-05-23Compare
- 05/28/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-05-28Compare
- 06/27/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-06-27Compare
- 09/05/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-09-05Compare
- 09/15/25 - Enrolled — 2025-09-15Compare
- 10/13/25 - Chaptered — 2025-10-13Compare
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Votes
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-03-11 · pass · 8-0
Member-level votes (9)
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Haney: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Ramos: other
Do pass as amended.
2025-05-23 · pass · 12-2
Member-level votes (15)
- Calderon: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Hart: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Solache: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Fong: yes
- Ta: no
- Tangipa: no
- Sanchez: other
Do pass.
2025-06-03 · pass · 9-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Wicks: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Fong: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Hart: yes
- Solache: yes
- Ta: other
- Sanchez: other
- Tangipa: other
- Calderon: other
- Arambula: other
- Dixon: other
AB 247 Bryan Assembly Third Reading
2025-06-06 · pass · 74-0
Member-level votes (79)
- Gallagher: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Patel: yes
- Solache: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Flora: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Bains: yes
- Haney: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Krell: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Ward: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Fong: yes
- Addis: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Chen: yes
- Hart: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Papan: yes
- Rivas: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Davies: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Lee: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Rogers: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Ta: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Berman: yes
- Soria: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Valencia: other
- Ramos: other
- Tangipa: other
- Ortega: other
- Macedo: other
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-07-08 · pass · 6-0
Member-level votes (6)
- Arreguín: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Wiener: yes
Placed on suspense file
2025-08-18 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Richardson: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Grayson: yes
Do pass
2025-08-29 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Richardson: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
3rd Reading AB247 Bryan et al. By Pérez Urgency Clause
2025-09-10 · pass · 39-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Umberg: yes
- Grove: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Jones: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: yes
- Limón: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Choi: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Laird: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Rubio: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Reyes: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Stern: yes
- Allen: yes
- Caballero: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Becker: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Niello: other
AB 247 Bryan Concurrence - Urgency Added
2025-09-11 · pass · 78-0
Member-level votes (80)
- Addis: yes
- Haney: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Berman: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Solache: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Zbur: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Patel: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Johnson: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Hart: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Soria: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Papan: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Davies: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Krell: yes
- Chen: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Bains: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Lee: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Ta: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Macedo: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Ward: yes
- Fong: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Flora: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Tangipa: other
- Ramos: other
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