republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/ab-593.md

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Bill	Domestic violence: battering: recall and resentencing.	Existing law authorizes every person who is unlawfully imprisoned or restrained of his or her liberty to prosecute a writ of habeas corpus to inquire into the cause of that imprisonment or restraint.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 593	California AB 593 (20112012)	bill	Domestic violence: battering: recall and resentencing.	enacted	Ma	8	24	5	2011-02-16	2012-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/9bc77c2d-5073-4610-af10-eb90d3d64402	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB593	1575f065ff95affecb88342e24d5a6b10ea81555aa1651182243b572a7a45d4d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 593 (20112012) — Domestic violence: battering: recall and resentencing.

Existing law authorizes every person who is unlawfully imprisoned or restrained of his or her liberty to prosecute a writ of habeas corpus to inquire into the cause of that imprisonment or restraint.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/04/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 01/05/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 03/31/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/21/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/30/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB593 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/29/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 593 MA Assembly Third Reading — 55–20 (pass) · lower
• AB 593 MA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 57–19 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 4–1 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB593 Ma By Evans — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ma — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2011-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2011-03-31 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2011-03-31 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-04-04 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2011-04-26 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2012-01-04 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-01-04 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2012-01-05 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-01-09 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2012-01-10 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (January 10). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-01-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-01-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 55. Noes 20. Page 3622.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-01-31 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-02-16 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2012-05-21 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-06-12 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (June 12). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-06-13 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-21 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4646.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-22 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-08-24 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 57. Noes 19. Page 6235.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-31 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2012-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 803, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9bc77c2d-5073-4610-af10-eb90d3d64402. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).