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Bill	Coroners: organ donation.	Existing law requires a coroner to cooperate with procurement organizations to maximize the opportunity to recover anatomical gifts for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research, or education. Existing law requires a coroner or designee to conduct a post mortem examination of a body or part that is available for or has been donated to a procurement organization in a manner and within a period compatible with the body or part's preservation for the purposes of the gift.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 1297	California AB 1297 (20132014)	bill	Coroners: organ donation.	enacted	John A. Pérez	8	26	6	2013-02-22	2013-09-24	openstates	ocd-bill/72e82f2e-17c6-4fc3-ab9b-d59e16a47e76	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1297	27a73b11176e0d8590d93af4b50d4ec3a078e833f8462b33780398bf1130b37a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1297 (20132014) — Coroners: organ donation.

Existing law requires a coroner to cooperate with procurement organizations to maximize the opportunity to recover anatomical gifts for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research, or education. Existing law requires a coroner or designee to conduct a post mortem examination of a body or part that is available for or has been donated to a procurement organization in a manner and within a period compatible with the body or part's preservation for the purposes of the gift.

Version chain

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

1. 02/22/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/21/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/10/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/04/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/19/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/24/13 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1297 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/28/13 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — 19–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1297 PÉREZ, J. Consent Calendar Second Day — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1297 PÉREZ, J. Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1297 John A. Pérez By Anderson — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• John A. Pérez — primary (person)
• Anderson — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-22 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2013-02-24 From printer. May be heard in committee March 26.
• 2013-02-25 Read first time. reading-1
• 2013-03-21 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2013-03-21 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-04-01 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2013-04-10 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-04-11 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2013-04-17 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (April 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-05-02 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 1). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-05-06 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-05-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1344.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-05-09 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2013-05-23 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2013-06-04 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-06-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-06-24 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2013-06-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-08-19 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-08-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1944.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-08-22 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2013-08-26 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2693.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-03 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2013-09-24 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2013-09-24 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 341, Statutes of 2013.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/72e82f2e-17c6-4fc3-ab9b-d59e16a47e76. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).