Existing law regulates the conduct of medical experiments on human subjects and requires informed consent prior to conducting medical experiments on human subjects. Existing law, until January 1, 2014, exempts from this requirement a medical experimental treatment that benefits a patient subject to a life-threatening emergency if specified conditions are met, including that the patient is in a life-threatening situation necessitating urgent intervention and available treatments are unproven or unsatisfactory and informed consent cannot be obtained before treatment must be administered.
California AB 58 (20132014) — Medical experiments: human subjects.
Existing law regulates the conduct of medical experiments on human subjects and requires informed consent prior to conducting medical experiments on human subjects. Existing law, until January 1, 2014, exempts from this requirement a medical experimental treatment that benefits a patient subject to a life-threatening emergency if specified conditions are met, including that the patient is in a life-threatening situation necessitating urgent intervention and available treatments are unproven or unsatisfactory and informed consent cannot be obtained before treatment must be administered.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
AB 58 WIECKOWSKI Assembly Third Reading — 76–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass. — 9–0 (pass) · upper
3rd Reading AB58 Wieckowski By Anderson — 36–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass as amended. — 19–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
Wieckowski — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2013-01-07 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2013-01-08 From printer. May be heard in committee February 7.
2013-01-18 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
2013-02-27 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
2013-02-28 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
2013-04-01 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (March 19). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
2013-04-02 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
2013-04-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2013-04-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 798.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
2013-04-08 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2013-04-18 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
2013-06-05 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 5). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2013-06-06 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2013-09-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 2090.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
2013-09-03 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
2013-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
2013-10-04 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2013-10-04 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 547, Statutes of 2013.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0e2a9ba4-df58-410b-84a3-7b0f995dcc23. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).