republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20012002/ab-78.md

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Bill	Criminal procedure: evidence.	Criminal procedure: evidence.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20012002	AB 78	California AB 78 (20012002)	bill	Criminal procedure: evidence.	enacted	Alquist	6	18	5	2001-01-04	2001-09-04	openstates	ocd-bill/97640ffb-425b-49b9-905e-d0ec54df4c2e	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB78	b2a21f7aac13dd0bf95e170f405455eb7d6d270c028eac932fc9281e98100699	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 78 (20012002) — Criminal procedure: evidence.

Version chain

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

1. 01/04/01 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/01/01 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/02/01 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/04/01 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB78 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/20/01 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 78 Alquist Concurrence in Senate Amendments — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — pass (pass) · upper
• Assembly 3rd Reading AB78 Alquist By McPherson — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 78 Alquist Assembly Third Reading — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Alquist — primary (person)
• Aroner — coauthor (person)
• Chavez — coauthor (person)
• Chu — coauthor (person)
• Cohn — principal coauthor (person)
• Cox — coauthor (person)
• Diaz — coauthor (person)
• Figueroa — coauthor (person)
• Florez — coauthor (person)
• Harman — coauthor (person)
• Havice — coauthor (person)
• Jackson — principal coauthor (person)
• Karnette — coauthor (person)
• Kuehl — principal coauthor (person)
• Margett — coauthor (person)
• Strom-Martin — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2001-09-04 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 235, Statutes of 2001.
• 2001-09-01 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2001-08-23 Enrolled and to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2001-08-20 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 3082.) committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2001-07-19 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 21 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2001-07-19 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2103.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2001-07-02 Read second time, amended, and to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2001-06-28 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2001-06-12 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2001-03-15 Referred to Standing Committee on Public Safety. referral-committee
• 2001-03-08 In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. reading-1
• 2001-03-08 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 594.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2001-03-05 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2001-03-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2001-02-28 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (February 27). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2001-02-01 Referred to Standing Committee on Public Safety. referral-committee
• 2001-01-05 From printer. May be heard in committee February 4.
• 2001-01-04 Read first time. To print. reading-1

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/97640ffb-425b-49b9-905e-d0ec54df4c2e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).