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Bill	Sex crimes: rape.	Existing law defines rape and spousal rape as an act of sexual intercourse accomplished under specified circumstances indicating a lack of consent, force, or duress, as specified. Existing law additionally makes various acts, including sodomy and oral copulation without consent or sexual intercourse with a minor, unlawful as sexual assault.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 701	California AB 701 (20152016)	bill	Sex crimes: rape.	enacted	Cristina Garcia	9	28	7	2015-02-25	2016-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/168c5fc2-d2f5-4d4a-acf6-d4bd05bc950c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB701	8449a7bc0af0fec25388526d0e67a78964c982a3a9fed00d2b92d52a1e766233	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 701 (20152016) — Sex crimes: rape.

Existing law defines rape and spousal rape as an act of sexual intercourse accomplished under specified circumstances indicating a lack of consent, force, or duress, as specified. Existing law additionally makes various acts, including sodomy and oral copulation without consent or sexual intercourse with a minor, unlawful as sexual assault.

Version chain

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

1. 02/25/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/16/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/22/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/07/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/02/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/04/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/30/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB701 (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/25/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 701 GARCIA, C. Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent AB701 Cristina Garcia By Lara — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 701 GARCIA, C. Assembly Third Reading — 76–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Cristina Garcia — primary (person)
• Anderson — coauthor (person)
• Arambula — coauthor (person)
• Atkins — coauthor (person)
• Beall — coauthor (person)
• Bonilla — coauthor (person)
• Bonta — coauthor (person)
• Eggman — author (person)
• Gatto — coauthor (person)
• Gipson — coauthor (person)
• Glazer — coauthor (person)
• Gomez — coauthor (person)
• Grove — coauthor (person)
• Hall — coauthor (person)
• Hancock — coauthor (person)
• Hertzberg — coauthor (person)
• Hill — coauthor (person)
• Leno — coauthor (person)
• Leyva — coauthor (person)
• Lopez — coauthor (person)
• Maienschein — coauthor (person)
• McCarty — coauthor (person)
• Olsen — coauthor (person)
• Stone — coauthor (person)
• Williams — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-25 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2015-02-26 From printer. May be heard in committee March 28.
• 2015-03-12 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2015-04-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 21. Noes 0.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-04-15 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 15). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-04-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-05-07 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 1. Page 1329.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-05-07 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-05-21 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2015-07-07 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-07-14 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2015-09-04 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-16 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-20 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2016-06-20 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2016-06-21 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2016-06-22 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
• 2016-08-01 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 28). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-02 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, 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.
• 2016-08-15 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2016-08-23 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (August 23). committee-passage
• 2016-08-24 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6219.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-31 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 848, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/168c5fc2-d2f5-4d4a-acf6-d4bd05bc950c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).