---
type: "Bill"
title: "Reporting crimes."
description: "Existing law requires specified health practitioners who have knowledge of or observe a patient who the practitioner knows or reasonably suspects has suffered from a wound or injury inflicted by specified types of conduct to report to a law enforcement agency, as specified. A violation of these provisions is a crime."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 1973"
citation: "California AB 1973 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Reporting crimes."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Quirk"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2018-01-31"
last_action: "2018-08-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/46405c01-43ce-4ba1-921e-9e6433ce01fe"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1973"
source_hash: "130d709dd047c15b100a43f498455a4b81064129eac965e0872d2ade17ed380f"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 1973 (20172018) — Reporting crimes.

Existing law requires specified health practitioners who have knowledge of or observe a patient who the practitioner knows or reasonably suspects has suffered from a wound or injury inflicted by specified types of conduct to report to a law enforcement agency, as specified. A violation of these provisions is a crime.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **01/31/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1973&version=20170AB197399INT)
2. **03/22/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1973&version=20170AB197398AMD)
3. **05/22/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1973&version=20170AB197397AMD)
4. **08/20/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1973&version=20170AB197395CHP)
5. **AB1973** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1973)
6. **08/07/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1973&version=20170AB197396ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1973 QUIRK Consent Calendar Second Day — **68–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar AB1973 — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1973 QUIRK Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Quirk — primary (person)
- Bonta — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-01-31** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2018-02-01** From printer. May be heard in committee March 3.
- **2018-02-12** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-21** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 20). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2018-03-22** Read second time and amended. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
- **2018-04-02** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-04** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 4). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-04-05** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-04-12** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 0. Page 4643.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-04-12** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2018-04-25** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2018-05-21** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (May 15). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2018-05-22** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2018-06-25** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2018-06-26** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-07-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 5038.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-07-03** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 5 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2018-08-06** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6135.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2018-08-09** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2018-08-20** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2018-08-20** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 164, Statutes of 2018.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/46405c01-43ce-4ba1-921e-9e6433ce01fe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).