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type: "Bill"
title: "Search warrants: electronic submission."
description: "Existing law establishes various grounds for the issuance of a search warrant. Existing law requires a search warrant to be issued upon probable cause, supported by affidavit, naming or describing the person to be searched or searched for, and particularly describing the property, thing, or things and the place to be searched."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 39"
citation: "California AB 39 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Search warrants: electronic submission."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Medina"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2014-12-01"
last_action: "2015-08-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7d0dfd63-60c2-4e5d-aaa4-b38cd95ec2d1"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB39"
source_hash: "fc73f4a6322afd6b65791277cfd45c1535432bac410f95c123b55021ff970217"
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 39 (20152016) — Search warrants: electronic submission.
Existing law establishes various grounds for the issuance of a search warrant. Existing law requires a search warrant to be issued upon probable cause, supported by affidavit, naming or describing the person to be searched or searched for, and particularly describing the property, thing, or things and the place to be searched.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **12/01/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB39&version=20150AB3999INT)
2. **08/13/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB39&version=20150AB3997CHP)
3. **AB39** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB39)
4. **07/08/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB39&version=20150AB3998ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **60** (pass) · lower
- AB 39 MEDINA Assembly Third Reading — **760** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent #4**390** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Medina — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2014-12-01** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2014-12-02** From printer. May be heard in committee January 1.
- **2015-01-22** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-17** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (March 17). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-03-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-03-26** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 711.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-03-26** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2015-05-07** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2015-06-16** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-06-17** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-07-01** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2015-07-06** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1791.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-07-06** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2015-08-03** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2015-08-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2015-08-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 193, Statutes of 2015.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7d0dfd63-60c2-4e5d-aaa4-b38cd95ec2d1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).