republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/ab-1744.md

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Bill	Sexual assault forensic medical evidence kit.	Existing law requires the Office of Emergency Services to establish a protocol for the examination and treatment of victims of sexual assault and attempted sexual assault, including child molestation, and the collection and preservation of related evidence. Existing law provides failure to comply with this protocol does not constitute grounds to exclude evidence and prohibits a judge from instructing the trier of fact in a case that less weight be given to the evidence based on failure to comply. Existing law also establishes one hospital-based training center to train medical personnel on how to perform medical evidentiary examinations for victims of child abuse or neglect, sexual assault, and other similar crimes.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 1744	California AB 1744 (20152016)	bill	Sexual assault forensic medical evidence kit.	enacted	Cooper	5	20	8	2016-02-01	2016-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/068ef66b-2909-43c6-b0b6-b5d57ce16153	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1744	302a8e1f6461efdf5590e1b80b512521d41077bdb3e89e2abf05eeba30df0241	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1744 (20152016) — Sexual assault forensic medical evidence kit.

Existing law requires the Office of Emergency Services to establish a protocol for the examination and treatment of victims of sexual assault and attempted sexual assault, including child molestation, and the collection and preservation of related evidence. Existing law provides failure to comply with this protocol does not constitute grounds to exclude evidence and prohibits a judge from instructing the trier of fact in a case that less weight be given to the evidence based on failure to comply. Existing law also establishes one hospital-based training center to train medical personnel on how to perform medical evidentiary examinations for victims of child abuse or neglect, sexual assault, and other similar crimes.

Version chain

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

1. 02/01/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/05/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 09/30/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB1744 (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/25/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1744 COOPER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1744 COOPER Consent Calendar Second Day — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1744 Cooper By Galgiani — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Cooper — primary (person)
• Anderson — coauthor (person)
• Baker — coauthor (person)
• Bates — coauthor (person)
• Cannella — coauthor (person)
• Chiu — coauthor (person)
• Chávez — coauthor (person)
• Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
• Galgiani — coauthor (person)
• Gallagher — coauthor (person)
• Gipson — coauthor (person)
• Hall — coauthor (person)
• Jackson — coauthor (person)
• Kim — coauthor (person)
• Maienschein — coauthor (person)
• Olsen — coauthor (person)
• Rodriguez — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-01 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2016-02-02 From printer. May be heard in committee March 3.
• 2016-02-18 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2016-03-15 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-04-06 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 6). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-04-07 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-04-14 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 4360.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-04-14 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-04-28 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2016-05-05 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-01 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2016-08-11 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-18 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 5135.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-19 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 21 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-08-23 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6160.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-30 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2016-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 857, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/068ef66b-2909-43c6-b0b6-b5d57ce16153. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).