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 03/19/26 - Amended Assembly
 02/20/26 - Introduced

 AB-2683 Crimes: child endangerment.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 04/20/2026 02:00 PM

AB2683:v97#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 April 20, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 March 19, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 2683

Introduced by Assembly Member Ransom
(Coauthor: Assembly Member Lackey)

February 20, 2026

An act to amend Section 273a of, and to add Section 12022.56 to, of the Penal Code, relating to crimes.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2683, as amended, Ransom.
 Crimes: child endangerment.

Existing law makes it unlawful, under circumstances or conditions likely to produce great bodily harm or death, to willfully cause or permit a child to suffer, or to inflict thereon unjustifiable physical pain or mental suffering, or, having the care or custody of a child, to willfully cause or permit the person or health of that child to be injured, or to willfully cause or permit that child to be placed in a situation where their person or health may be endangered and a violation of these provisions punishable as a misdemeanor or felony.

This bill would make any adult who solicits or recruits a minor to commit a felony guilty of child endangerment pursuant to the provisions above and would, in addition and consecutive to any other punishment, make a violation punishable as a sentence enhancement in the state prison for 2, 4, or 6 years. By
 creating a new crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

Existing law defines murder as the unlawful killing of a human being, or a fetus, except as specified, with malice aforethought. Existing law punishes a person guilty of first-degree murder by death, imprisonment in the state prison for life without the possibility of parole, or imprisonment in the state prison for a term of 25 years to life, and of 2nd-degree murder by imprisonment in the state prison for a term of 15 years to life. Existing law requires a person who personally uses a firearm to commit, among other certain specified felonies, murder to be punished by an additional and
 consecutive term of imprisonment in the state prison for 25 years to life if the person discharged the firearm and proximately caused great bodily injury or death.

This bill would impose a sentence enchantment for murder, consisting of an additional and consecutive term of imprisonment in the state prison of an unspecified period of time, if the murder victim is a minor and the murder occurred in a location where at least one other minor was present. The bill would make the enhancement extend the date of parole eligibility for a person who has been given an indeterminate sentence. By creating a new sentence enhancement, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures
 for making that reimbursement.

This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 YES 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 273a of the Penal Code is amended to read:

273a.

 (a) Any person who, under circumstances or conditions likely to produce great bodily harm or death, willfully causes or permits any child to suffer, or inflicts thereon unjustifiable physical pain or mental suffering, or having the care or custody of any child, willfully causes or permits the person or health of that child to be injured, or willfully causes or permits that child to be placed in a situation where their person or health is endangered, shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or in the state prison for two, four, or six years.

(b) Any person who, under circumstances or conditions other than those likely to produce great bodily harm or death,
 willfully causes or permits any child to suffer, or inflicts thereon unjustifiable physical pain or mental suffering, or having the care or custody of any child, willfully causes or permits the person or health of t