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Bill	Courts: interpreters.	(1) The California Constitution provides that a person unable to understand English who is charged with a crime has the right to an interpreter throughout the proceedings. Existing statutory law requires, in any civil or criminal action, as specified, a sign language interpreter to be appointed for a party or witness who is deaf or hearing-impaired and generally requires the payment of these court interpreters' fees to be a charge against the court.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 1657	California AB 1657 (20132014)	bill	Courts: interpreters.	enacted	Gomez	7	31	8	2014-02-11	2014-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/1838384b-afdd-4235-a242-5a25601ff191	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1657	1b6fe260e3d3ccc1f3499f5eaeceed569855a3583f4cac0a429fdddfad8e05a2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1657 (20132014) — Courts: interpreters.

(1) The California Constitution provides that a person unable to understand English who is charged with a crime has the right to an interpreter throughout the proceedings. Existing statutory law requires, in any civil or criminal action, as specified, a sign language interpreter to be appointed for a party or witness who is deaf or hearing-impaired and generally requires the payment of these court interpreters' fees to be a charge against the court.

Version chain

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

1. 02/11/14 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/29/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/15/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/21/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/28/14 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1657 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/04/14 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent #19 AB1657 Gomez By Correa — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1657 GOMEZ Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1657 GOMEZ Assembly Third Reading — 75–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Gomez — primary (person)
• Chau — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-02-11 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2014-02-12 From printer. May be heard in committee March 14.
• 2014-02-20 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2014-04-01 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2014-04-28 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 22). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-04-29 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-04-30 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2014-05-07 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 7). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2014-05-08 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-05-15 From consent calendar.
• 2014-05-15 Ordered to third reading.
• 2014-05-19 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5022.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-05-19 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2014-05-28 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2014-06-10 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2014-06-15 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-06-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2014-08-04 In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2014-08-14 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 14). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2014-08-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-08-21 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-08-26 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2014-08-27 Ordered to third reading.
• 2014-08-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4901.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-08-27 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 29 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2014-08-28 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 55. Noes 24. Page 6646.)
• 2014-08-28 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6658.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2014-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2014-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2014-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 721, Statutes of 2014.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1838384b-afdd-4235-a242-5a25601ff191. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).