California legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
California AB788: Prisons: facilities for female offenders.
Status: Vetoed, September 27, 2026
What the bill says
An act to amend Section 12838.1 of the Government Code, and to amend Sections 3430 and 5066 of, and to add Sections 3431 and 3432 to, the Penal Code, relating to prisons. prisons Prisons: facilities for female offenders. Existing law creates within the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, under the Undersecretary for Operations, the Division of Adult Institutions, among others, and requires each division to be headed by a director, who is appointed by the Governor, as specified. Existing law also requires the Governor to appoint 4 subordinate officers to the division, as specified…
From the enrolled text, September 3, 2026:
An act to amend Section 12838.1 of the Government Code, and to amend Sections 3430 and 5066 of, and to add Sections 3431 and 3432 to, the Penal Code, relating to prisons. prisons Prisons: facilities for female offenders. Existing law creates within the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, under the Undersecretary for Operations, the Division of Adult Institutions, among others, and requires each division to be headed by a director, who is appointed by the Governor, as specified. Existing law also requires the Governor to appoint 4 subordinate officers to the division, as specified. Existing law requires each subordinate officer appointed to oversee an identified category of adult institutions, one of which oversees female offender facilities. This bill would instead require the Governor to appoint 3 subordinate officers, as specified, who would oversee an identified category of male adult institutions, and one subordinate officer, as specified, who would oversee female adult institutions. The bill would create within the department, and under the Undersecretary for Operations, the Division of Female Programs and Services. The bill would require the director of this division to be responsible solely for female adult institutions and community facilities housing female offenders. The bill would require the director to report to the undersecretary and to have a minimum of 5 years of experience serving a female correctional …