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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Evidence: admissibility."
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description: "Existing law provides that except as otherwise provided by statute, all relevant evidence is admissible."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20172018"
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identifier: "AB 2243"
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citation: "California AB 2243 (20172018)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Evidence: admissibility."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Friedman"]
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version_count: 6
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action_count: 19
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vote_count: 5
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first_action: "2018-02-13"
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last_action: "2018-06-13"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a172a44c-a766-4fcd-a600-5a580334dff1"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2243"
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source_hash: "dd02a027f5b05442500e22980dd34c43d23f1a7e3f94833e2ef4693f6ed504a7"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 2243 (20172018) — Evidence: admissibility.
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Existing law provides that except as otherwise provided by statute, all relevant evidence is admissible.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/13/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2243&version=20170AB224399INT)
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2. **03/12/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2243&version=20170AB224398AMD)
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3. **05/07/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2243&version=20170AB224397AMD)
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4. **06/13/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2243&version=20170AB224395CHP)
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5. **AB2243** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2243)
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6. **05/30/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2243&version=20170AB224396ENR)
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## Votes
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- Consent Calendar AB2243 — **39–0** (pass) · upper
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- AB 2243 FRIEDMAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **77–0** (pass) · lower
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- AB 2243 FRIEDMAN Assembly Third Reading — **67–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Friedman — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2018-02-13** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2018-02-14** From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
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- **2018-03-01** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
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- **2018-03-12** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2018-03-13** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
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- **2018-03-21** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 20). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2018-03-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2018-04-05** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 67. Noes 0. Page 4530.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2018-04-05** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2018-04-19** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
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- **2018-05-07** 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. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction`
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- **2018-05-15** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (May 15). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2018-05-16** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2018-05-21** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4220.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2018-05-21** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after May 23 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
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- **2018-05-29** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 5367.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
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- **2018-06-01** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
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- **2018-06-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2018-06-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 27, Statutes of 2018.
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a172a44c-a766-4fcd-a600-5a580334dff1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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