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Bill	Civil grand juries.	Under existing law, no person is permitted to be present during the criminal sessions of the grand jury except the members and witnesses actually under examination, and certain other specified persons, including, among others, the district attorney, an interpreter, and the officer having custody of a prisoner witness while the prisoner is testifying.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 622	California AB 622 (20112012)	bill	Civil grand juries.	enacted	Dickinson	9	28	8	2011-02-16	2011-10-09	openstates	ocd-bill/19a15760-f712-4c4b-afd1-fbe39b297964	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB622	c51b789f87bc7d9eaaba53003a04cbb3875cdf3f98a83202215336cd0cb37866	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 622 (20112012) — Civil grand juries.

Under existing law, no person is permitted to be present during the criminal sessions of the grand jury except the members and witnesses actually under examination, and certain other specified persons, including, among others, the district attorney, an interpreter, and the officer having custody of a prisoner witness while the prisoner is testifying.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/30/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/27/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/12/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/30/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/01/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/09/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB622 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/16/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 622 DICKINSON Assembly Third Reading — 66–8 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 5–4 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB622 Dickinson By De León — 21–15 (pass) · upper
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 622 DICKINSON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 54–24 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 11–5 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 6–4 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 3–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Dickinson — 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.
• 2011-03-07 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2011-03-30 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-03-31 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2011-04-05 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 4.) (April 5). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-04 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2011-05-11 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2011-05-27 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 5.) (May 27). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-27 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-05-31 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-06-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 66. Noes 8. Page 1736.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-06-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2011-06-08 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2011-06-20 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2011-07-11 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 3. Noes 2.) (July 5). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-07-12 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-08-15 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2011-08-29 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 4.) (August 25). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-08-30 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-01 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-09-07 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 21. Noes 15. Page 2367.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-09-07 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2011-09-08 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 54. Noes 24. Page 3077.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2011-10-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-10-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 679, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/19a15760-f712-4c4b-afd1-fbe39b297964. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).