Brock Turner, the former Stanford swimmer convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman, leaves the Santa Clara County Jail on September 2.

NEWS BRIEF California expanded its definition of rape and added new mandatory-minimum sentences for sexual assaults on Friday, five months after a judge’s lenient sentence for former Stanford swimmer Brock Turner sparked national outrage.

State legislators approved the two measures, Assembly Bills 701 and 2888, as part of a broader effort to reform how California’s criminal code handles sex-related crimes.

AB 2888 eliminates probation as an option for offenders whose victims are intoxicated or unconscious, while AB 701 expands the state’s definition of rape beyond the use or threat of physical force. The Los Angeles Times has more:

Currently under the law, those convicted of rape using additional physical force must serve prison time. But offenders, like Turner, convicted of sexually assaulting someone who is unconscious or incapable of giving consent because of intoxication, can receive a lesser sentence based on a judge’s discretion. Rape has previously been defined as “an act of sexual intercourse" under certain conditions of force, duress or lack of consent. Other types of sexual assault, like penetration by a foreign object, were categorized as separate offenses.

In a statement announcing he had signed them into law, Governor Jerry Brown said he opposed adding new mandatory-minimum sentences in general. In this case, however, Brown justified his support for AB 2888 by noting it would bring “a measure of parity to sentencing for criminal acts that are substantially similar.”