republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/ab-2083.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Interagency child death review."
description: "Existing law authorizes a county to establish an interagency child death review team to assist local agencies in identifying and reviewing suspicious child deaths and facilitating communication among persons who perform autopsies and the various persons and agencies involved in child abuse or neglect cases. Existing law requires records that are exempt from disclosure to 3rd parties pursuant to state or federal law to remain exempt from disclosure when they are in the possession of a child death review team."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 2083"
citation: "California AB 2083 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Interagency child death review."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chu"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2016-02-17"
last_action: "2016-09-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/98e9c974-7037-4220-8d22-c019d1665851"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2083"
source_hash: "dd851f431aacde176ead2919e04c8d3651d759f5ed3a89858eb5f43497d3b645"
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 2083 (20152016) — Interagency child death review.

Existing law authorizes a county to establish an interagency child death review team to assist local agencies in identifying and reviewing suspicious child deaths and facilitating communication among persons who perform autopsies and the various persons and agencies involved in child abuse or neglect cases. Existing law requires records that are exempt from disclosure to 3rd parties pursuant to state or federal law to remain exempt from disclosure when they are in the possession of a child death review team.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/17/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2083&version=20150AB208399INT)
2. **06/14/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2083&version=20150AB208398AMD)
3. **09/12/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2083&version=20150AB208396CHP)
4. **AB2083** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2083)
5. **08/19/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2083&version=20150AB208397ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Special Consent — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2083 CHU Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2083 CHU Assembly Third Reading — **78–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chu — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-02-17** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2016-02-18** From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
- **2016-02-29** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2016-04-20** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 19). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-04-21** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-04-28** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 4564.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-04-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2016-05-05** Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-08** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2016-06-14** 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`
- **2016-06-21** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2016-06-29** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-08-01** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2016-08-01** Ordered to second reading.
- **2016-08-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-08-03** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2016-08-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4877.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-11** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 14 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2016-08-18** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 5870.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2016-08-24** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:45 a.m.
- **2016-09-12** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-09-12** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 297, Statutes of 2016.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/98e9c974-7037-4220-8d22-c019d1665851`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).