republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/sb-1238.md

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Bill	Inmates: biomedical data.	Existing law prohibits biomedical research, as defined, from being conducted on any prisoner in the state.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	SB 1238	California SB 1238 (20152016)	bill	Inmates: biomedical data.	enacted	Pan	5	23	7	2016-02-18	2016-08-25	openstates	ocd-bill/14021ca7-777e-43bc-819b-a19608ae0660	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1238	ed99221617a776aee75fed4e31c28849b2f9d640f8aca577f208311ee97f3268	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 1238 (20152016) — Inmates: biomedical data.

Existing law prohibits biomedical research, as defined, from being conducted on any prisoner in the state.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/29/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/25/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. SB1238 (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/12/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 1238 Pan Consent Calendar Second Day — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Pan — primary (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 Coms. on HEALTH and PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2016-03-17 Set for hearing April 6.
• 2016-03-29 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
• 2016-04-07 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 3445.) (April 6). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-04-08 Set for hearing April 19.
• 2016-04-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3614.) (April 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-06 Set for hearing May 16.
• 2016-05-16 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2016-05-17 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-26 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 3954.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-05-26 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2016-06-06 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2016-06-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-06-28 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
• 2016-08-03 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (August 3). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-04 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-11 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 5779.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-11 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2016-08-16 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
• 2016-08-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-08-25 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 197, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/14021ca7-777e-43bc-819b-a19608ae0660. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).