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Bill	Grand jury proceedings: Attorney General: powers and duties.	Existing law authorizes the Attorney General to convene the grand jury to investigate and consider certain criminal matters. The Attorney General is authorized to take full charge of the presentation of the matters to the grand jury, issue subpoenas, prepare indictments, and do all other things incident thereto to the same extent as the district attorney may do. Existing law authorizes the Attorney General to impanel a special grand jury to investigate, consider, or issue indictments for specified activities relating to Medi-Cal fraud.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	SB 1474	California SB 1474 (20112012)	bill	Grand jury proceedings: Attorney General: powers and duties.	enacted	Hancock	10	33	8	2012-02-24	2012-09-25	openstates	ocd-bill/84fc34de-9d72-45e4-ab3a-af2405c4f51e	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1474	d232b6f242735b93659468f16997cc000cc1d79a454accb9a0714523c32b73f4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 1474 (20112012) — Grand jury proceedings: Attorney General: powers and duties.

Existing law authorizes the Attorney General to convene the grand jury to investigate and consider certain criminal matters. The Attorney General is authorized to take full charge of the presentation of the matters to the grand jury, issue subpoenas, prepare indictments, and do all other things incident thereto to the same extent as the district attorney may do. Existing law authorizes the Attorney General to impanel a special grand jury to investigate, consider, or issue indictments for specified activities relating to Medi-Cal fraud.

Version chain

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

1. 02/24/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/29/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/11/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/25/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/13/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/06/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/23/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/25/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. SB1474 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/05/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• SB 1474 Hancock Senate Third Reading By FEUER — 78–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB1474 Hancock Concurrence — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 4–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Hancock — primary (person)
• Davis — coauthor (person)
• DeSaulnier — coauthor (person)
• Leno — coauthor (person)
• Pavley — coauthor (person)
• Skinner — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-24 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2012-02-25 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 26.
• 2012-02-27 Read first time. reading-1
• 2012-03-22 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2012-03-29 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-04-09 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2012-04-11 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-04-11 Set for hearing April 17.
• 2012-04-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3210.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-04-20 Set for hearing April 30.
• 2012-04-23 Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2012-04-27 Set for hearing May 7.
• 2012-05-07 Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2012-05-18 Set for hearing May 24.
• 2012-05-24 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3597.) (May 24). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-25 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-05-30 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 3698.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-05-30 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2012-06-07 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2012-06-13 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-06-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-06 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-08-08 Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2012-08-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 16). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-23 Read third time and amended. (Page 6169.) reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-23 Ordered to third reading.
• 2012-08-27 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 2. Page 6347.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-28 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2012-08-30 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5012.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
• 2012-09-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-25 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 568, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/84fc34de-9d72-45e4-ab3a-af2405c4f51e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).