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Bill	Forensic testing: DNA samples.	(1) Existing law, as amended by the DNA Fingerprint, Unsolved Crime and Innocence Protection Act, Proposition 69, approved by the voters at the November 2, 2004, general election (the DNA Act) requires any adult person who is arrested or charged with any felony offense to provide buccal swab samples, right thumbprints, and a full palm print impression of each hand, and any blood specimens or other biological samples required for law enforcement identification analysis. Existing law requires that blood specimens and buccal swab samples be forwarded promptly to the Department of Justice for analysis. Existing case law, People v. Buza (2014) 231 Cal.App.4th 1446, for which review has been granted by the California Supreme Court, holds that the DNA Act, to the extent it requires felony arrestees to submit to a DNA sample for law enforcement analysis and inclusion in the state and federal DNA databases, without independent suspicion, a warrant, or a judicial or grand jury determination of probable cause, unreasonably intrudes on the arrestee's expectation of privacy and is invalid under the California Constitution. The DNA Act provides that it may be amended by a statute passed by each house of the Legislature that furthers the purpose of the measure.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 1492	California AB 1492 (20152016)	bill	Forensic testing: DNA samples.	enacted	Gatto	11	41	12	2015-02-27	2015-10-04	openstates	ocd-bill/4b0eeb57-5bd4-4f10-a1de-eb30aa6cbabf	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1492	4de62d89df1bf77cf66e90800aecc3d0458a81b7ee0f45dcdb8c1eafa36dd612	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1492 (20152016) — Forensic testing: DNA samples.

(1) Existing law, as amended by the DNA Fingerprint, Unsolved Crime and Innocence Protection Act, Proposition 69, approved by the voters at the November 2, 2004, general election (the DNA Act) requires any adult person who is arrested or charged with any felony offense to provide buccal swab samples, right thumbprints, and a full palm print impression of each hand, and any blood specimens or other biological samples required for law enforcement identification analysis. Existing law requires that blood specimens and buccal swab samples be forwarded promptly to the Department of Justice for analysis. Existing case law, People v. Buza (2014) 231 Cal.App.4th 1446, for which review has been granted by the California Supreme Court, holds that the DNA Act, to the extent it requires felony arrestees to submit to a DNA sample for law enforcement analysis and inclusion in the state and federal DNA databases, without independent suspicion, a warrant, or a judicial or grand jury determination of probable cause, unreasonably intrudes on the arrestee's expectation of privacy and is invalid under the California Constitution. The DNA Act provides that it may be amended by a statute passed by each house of the Legislature that furthers the purpose of the measure.

Version chain

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

1. 02/27/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/26/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/15/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/30/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/29/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/16/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/31/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/04/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 10/04/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. AB1492 (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/16/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1492 Gatto By Hancock — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1492 Gatto By Hancock — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1492 Gatto By Hancock Reconsider — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1492 LOW Consent Calendar Second Day — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1492 GATTO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 76–1 (pass) · lower
• Be re-referred to the Committee on [Elections and Redistricting] — 10–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Gatto — primary (person)
• Atkins — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-27 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2015-03-01 From printer. May be heard in committee March 31.
• 2015-03-02 Read first time. reading-1
• 2015-03-26 Referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2015-03-26 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on INS. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-06 Re-referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2015-04-15 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on INS. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-16 Re-referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2015-04-20 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. referral-committee
• 2015-04-22 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2015-04-23 From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on E. & R. Re-referred. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2015-04-29 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 29). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-04-30 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-05-04 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2015-05-13 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 13). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-05-14 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-05-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1560.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-05-22 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-06-04 Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. referral-committee
• 2015-06-16 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-06-25 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2015-06-29 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-30 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2015-06-30 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2015-07-01 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2015-07-16 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 14). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-07-16 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-08-17 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2015-08-27 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (August 27). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-08-31 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-04 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-10 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2706.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-10 Motion to reconsider made by Senator Hancock.
• 2015-09-10 Reconsideration granted. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2710.)
• 2015-09-10 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2710.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-10 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2015-09-11 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 1. Page 3154.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-09-23 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2015-10-04 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-10-04 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 487, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4b0eeb57-5bd4-4f10-a1de-eb30aa6cbabf. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).