The California legislature voted in favor of a bill imposing stricter punishment for those convicted of sexual assault on Monday, The New York Times reports.

The bill’s passage came just four days before Brock Turner, the Stanford swimmer who was convicted of three counts of felony sexual assault, will be released from jail three months early for “good behavior.”

Turner was originally sentenced to six months – a sentence widely denounced as overly lenient – after prosecutors asked for Turner to be sentenced to six years. The maximum sentence for these charges is 14 years.

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