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type: "Bill"
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title: "DNA evidence."
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description: "Existing law establishes the \"Sexual Assault Victims' DNA Bill of Rights,\" which, among other things, encourages a law enforcement agency assigned to investigate specified sexual assault offenses to perform DNA testing of rape kit evidence or other crime scene evidence in a timely manner to assure the longest possible statute of limitations. Existing law also requires a law enforcement agency to inform victims of certain sexual assault offenses, if the identity of the perpetrator is in issue, if the law enforcement agency elects not to analyze DNA evidence within certain time limits."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20132014"
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identifier: "AB 1517"
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citation: "California AB 1517 (20132014)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["DNA evidence."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Skinner"]
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version_count: 6
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action_count: 23
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vote_count: 8
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first_action: "2014-01-15"
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last_action: "2014-09-30"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6ccee110-4fd5-4ad1-881c-869ca54c86b7"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1517"
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source_hash: "7b6382e7a8303b8ed1c662e6f472264708b9b1847f9f7709ee94e4d0650ccf08"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 1517 (20132014) — DNA evidence.
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Existing law establishes the "Sexual Assault Victims' DNA Bill of Rights," which, among other things, encourages a law enforcement agency assigned to investigate specified sexual assault offenses to perform DNA testing of rape kit evidence or other crime scene evidence in a timely manner to assure the longest possible statute of limitations. Existing law also requires a law enforcement agency to inform victims of certain sexual assault offenses, if the identity of the perpetrator is in issue, if the law enforcement agency elects not to analyze DNA evidence within certain time limits.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **01/15/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1517&version=20130AB151799INT)
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2. **05/23/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1517&version=20130AB151798AMD)
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3. **08/18/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1517&version=20130AB151797AMD)
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4. **09/30/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1517&version=20130AB151795CHP)
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5. **AB1517** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1517)
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6. **08/29/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1517&version=20130AB151796ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass as amended. — **5–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **5–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass as amended. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
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- AB 1517 SKINNER Assembly Third Reading — **79–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
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- AB 1517 SKINNER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **79–0** (pass) · lower
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- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- 3rd Reading AB1517 Skinner By De León — **33–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Skinner — primary (person)
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- Atkins — coauthor (person)
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- Bonta — coauthor (person)
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- Brown — coauthor (person)
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- Buchanan — coauthor (person)
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- Chávez — coauthor (person)
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- Corbett — coauthor (person)
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- Eggman — coauthor (person)
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- Fong — coauthor (person)
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- Garcia — coauthor (person)
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- Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
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- Hill — coauthor (person)
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- Lieu — coauthor (person)
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- Melendez — coauthor (person)
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- Olsen — coauthor (person)
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- Quirk — coauthor (person)
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- Stone — coauthor (person)
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- Ting — coauthor (person)
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- Vidak — coauthor (person)
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- Waldron — coauthor (person)
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- Wieckowski — coauthor (person)
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- Wyland — coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2014-01-15** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2014-01-16** From printer. May be heard in committee February 15.
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- **2014-01-23** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
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- **2014-03-11** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
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- **2014-03-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
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- **2014-04-09** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
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- **2014-05-23** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) . `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
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- **2014-05-23** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
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- **2014-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2014-05-28** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 5235.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
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- **2014-05-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2014-06-05** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
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- **2014-06-17** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
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- **2014-08-04** In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
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- **2014-08-14** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
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- **2014-08-18** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
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- **2014-08-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 4761.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
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- **2014-08-25** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 27 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
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- **2014-08-26** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6444.)
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- **2014-08-26** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6461.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
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- **2014-09-08** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
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- **2014-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2014-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 874, Statutes of 2014.
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6ccee110-4fd5-4ad1-881c-869ca54c86b7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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