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type: "Bill"
title: "Medical experiments: human subjects."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 58"
citation: "California AB 58 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Medical experiments: human subjects."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wieckowski"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2013-01-07"
last_action: "2013-10-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0e2a9ba4-df58-410b-84a3-7b0f995dcc23"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB58"
source_hash: "b463d2778c1a133c21142ce2832e4737936cf7b029f1cffb11f85f6a7d745473"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---
# 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.
1. **01/07/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB58&version=20130AB5899INT)
2. **02/27/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB58&version=20130AB5898AMD)
3. **04/02/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB58&version=20130AB5897AMD)
4. **10/04/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB58&version=20130AB5895CHP)
5. **AB58** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB58)
6. **09/05/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB58&version=20130AB5896ENR)
## Votes
- AB 58 WIECKOWSKI Assembly Third Reading — **760** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **90** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB58 Wieckowski By Anderson — **360** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **190** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0e2a9ba4-df58-410b-84a3-7b0f995dcc23`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).