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Bill	Voluntary manslaughter.	Existing law defines voluntary manslaughter as the unlawful killing of a human being without malice upon a sudden quarrel or heat of passion. The crime of voluntary manslaughter is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for 3, 6, or 11 years.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 2501	California AB 2501 (20132014)	bill	Voluntary manslaughter.	enacted	Bonilla	6	27	8	2014-02-21	2014-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/770f1c56-eaa6-49ac-b2e2-f3c0c099e47c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2501	f76d624a090bd9c9b427d27101b18e81e3958fd7c0e737e97e7f246cab31b55f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2501 (20132014) — Voluntary manslaughter.

Existing law defines voluntary manslaughter as the unlawful killing of a human being without malice upon a sudden quarrel or heat of passion. The crime of voluntary manslaughter is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for 3, 6, or 11 years.

Version chain

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

1. 02/21/14 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/24/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/22/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/27/14 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB2501 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/03/14 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2501 BONILLA Assembly Third Reading — 50–18 (pass) · lower
• AB 2501 BONILLA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 58–15 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 5–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2501 Bonilla By Lara — 25–9 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bonilla — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-02-21 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2014-02-23 From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
• 2014-02-24 Read first time. reading-1
• 2014-03-13 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2014-04-22 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2014-04-24 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-04-28 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2014-04-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2014-05-14 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2014-05-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2014-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-05-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 50. Noes 18. Page 5299.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-05-28 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2014-06-11 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2014-06-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (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 1.) (August 14). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2014-08-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-08-22 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-08-26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 25. Noes 9. Page 4866.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-08-26 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2014-08-27 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 56. Noes 21. Page 6571.)
• 2014-08-27 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 58. Noes 15. Page 6589.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2014-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2014-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2014-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 684, Statutes of 2014.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/770f1c56-eaa6-49ac-b2e2-f3c0c099e47c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).