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Bill	Postmortem examinations or autopsies: forensic pathologists.	Existing law requires a county coroner to inquire into and determine the circumstances, manner, and cause of certain deaths. Existing law either requires or authorizes a county coroner, under certain circumstances, to perform, or cause to be performed, an autopsy on a decedent. Existing law imposes certain requirements on a postmortem examination or autopsy conducted at the discretion of a coroner, medical examiner, or other agency upon an unidentified body or human remains. Existing law requires the coroner to perform an autopsy pursuant to a standardized protocol developed by the State Department of Public Health in any case where an infant has died suddenly and unexpectedly.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	SB 1189	California SB 1189 (20152016)	bill	Postmortem examinations or autopsies: forensic pathologists.	enacted	Pan	10	32	9	2016-02-18	2016-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/a8f18100-7c0b-476a-b513-f0a58e14dc9e	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1189	00a88d3bc5bf2313d5b0fc39d1bf04628d5be3c478576ea8ae72e2a23ed0a3ee	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 1189 (20152016) — Postmortem examinations or autopsies: forensic pathologists.

Existing law requires a county coroner to inquire into and determine the circumstances, manner, and cause of certain deaths. Existing law either requires or authorizes a county coroner, under certain circumstances, to perform, or cause to be performed, an autopsy on a decedent. Existing law imposes certain requirements on a postmortem examination or autopsy conducted at the discretion of a coroner, medical examiner, or other agency upon an unidentified body or human remains. Existing law requires the coroner to perform an autopsy pursuant to a standardized protocol developed by the State Department of Public Health in any case where an infant has died suddenly and unexpectedly.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/28/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/13/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/26/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/22/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/03/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/19/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/28/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. SB1189 (committee substitute) — source
10. 08/26/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading — 24–14 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB1189 Pan Concurrence — 38–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–2 (pass) · upper
• SB 1189 Pan Senate Third Reading By IRWIN — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 19–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 1189 Pan Senate Third Reading Amendment Set #1 — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Pan — primary (person)
• Irwin — coauthor (person)
• Jackson — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-18 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2016-02-19 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 20.
• 2016-03-03 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2016-03-17 Set for hearing April 13.
• 2016-03-28 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2016-04-06 April 13 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2016-04-07 Set for hearing April 20.
• 2016-04-13 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2016-04-25 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2. Page 3646.) (April 20). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-04-26 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-05-13 Set for hearing May 23.
• 2016-05-23 May 23 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2016-05-24 Set for hearing May 27.
• 2016-05-27 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 4005.) (May 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-06-02 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 24. Noes 14. Page 4121.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-02 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2016-06-13 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2016-06-22 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-03 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-03 August 3 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2016-08-10 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (August 10). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-19 Read third time and amended. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5955.) reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-19 Ordered to third reading.
• 2016-08-23 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6077.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-23 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2016-08-24 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 1. Page 5373.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-30 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
• 2016-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 787, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a8f18100-7c0b-476a-b513-f0a58e14dc9e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).