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Bill	Civil Procedure: discovery.	Existing law generally prohibits a copy, reproduction, or facsimile of any kind of a photograph, negative, or print, including instant photographs and video recordings, of the body, or any portion of the body, of a deceased person, taken by or for the coroner at the scene of death or in the course of a post mortem examination or autopsy, from being made or disseminated. This prohibition does not apply for use in a criminal action or proceeding in this state that relates to the death of that person, or, as a court permits, by order after good cause has been shown and after written notification of the request for the court order has been served, at least 5 days before the order is made, upon the district attorney of the county in which the post mortem examination or autopsy has been made or caused to be made.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 2427	California AB 2427 (20152016)	bill	Civil Procedure: discovery.	enacted	Chau	8	30	6	2016-02-19	2016-09-22	openstates	ocd-bill/a6ace436-e8a6-4963-8952-4c75789df141	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2427	53e6dac6c0a4a3eb22f884c4fedceda249832524af3960a3fc0432bc789dafe3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2427 (20152016) — Civil Procedure: discovery.

Existing law generally prohibits a copy, reproduction, or facsimile of any kind of a photograph, negative, or print, including instant photographs and video recordings, of the body, or any portion of the body, of a deceased person, taken by or for the coroner at the scene of death or in the course of a post mortem examination or autopsy, from being made or disseminated. This prohibition does not apply for use in a criminal action or proceeding in this state that relates to the death of that person, or, as a court permits, by order after good cause has been shown and after written notification of the request for the court order has been served, at least 5 days before the order is made, upon the district attorney of the county in which the post mortem examination or autopsy has been made or caused to be made.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/12/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/04/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/28/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/19/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/22/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2427 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/31/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2427 CHAU Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2427 CHAU Assembly Third Reading — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2427 Chau By Block — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Chau — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-19 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2016-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2016-02-22 Read first time. reading-1
• 2016-03-08 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2016-04-12 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2016-04-12 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-04-13 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2016-05-03 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (May 3). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-05-04 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-05 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5. referral-committee
• 2016-05-18 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (May 18). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-19 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-27 From Consent Calendar.
• 2016-05-27 Ordered to third reading.
• 2016-05-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 5015.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-06-09 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2016-06-27 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 21). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-06-28 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-01 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2016-08-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-19 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-24 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5368.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-25 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6440.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
• 2016-09-22 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-22 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 467, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a6ace436-e8a6-4963-8952-4c75789df141. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).