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Bill	DNA evidence.	Existing law establishes the Sexual Assault Victims' DNA Bill of Rights, which, among other things, encourages a law enforcement agency assigned to investigate specified sexual assault offenses to perform DNA testing of rape kit evidence or other crime scene evidence in a timely manner to ensure the longest possible statute of limitations. Existing law also requires a law enforcement agency to inform victims of certain unsolved sexual assault offenses if the law enforcement agency elects not to analyze DNA evidence within certain time limits.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 41	California AB 41 (20172018)	bill	DNA evidence.	enacted	Chiu	7	27	6	2016-12-05	2017-10-12	openstates	ocd-bill/c4d00172-f188-4cd6-a578-3c185e0d7ee2	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB41	11a66c606f1933334227ce0b0232cd90903d6de48ca2c240de30ce0d594f58cc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 41 (20172018) — DNA evidence.

Existing law establishes the Sexual Assault Victims' DNA Bill of Rights, which, among other things, encourages a law enforcement agency assigned to investigate specified sexual assault offenses to perform DNA testing of rape kit evidence or other crime scene evidence in a timely manner to ensure the longest possible statute of limitations. Existing law also requires a law enforcement agency to inform victims of certain unsolved sexual assault offenses if the law enforcement agency elects not to analyze DNA evidence within certain time limits.

Version chain

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

1. 12/05/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/27/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 09/01/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/08/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/12/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB41 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/15/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Special Consent Calendar # AB41 — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 41 Chiu Special Consent Calendar 1st Day — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 41 CHIU Assembly Third Reading — 74–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Chiu — primary (person)
• Acosta — coauthor (person)
• Anderson — coauthor (person)
• Atkins — coauthor (person)
• Baker — coauthor (person)
• Berman — coauthor (person)
• Cannella — coauthor (person)
• Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
• Gloria — coauthor (person)
• Hill — coauthor (person)
• Jackson — coauthor (person)
• Lackey — coauthor (person)
• Maienschein — coauthor (person)
• Mayes — coauthor (person)
• Skinner — principal coauthor (person)
• Waldron — coauthor (person)
• Wiener — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-12-05 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2016-12-06 From printer. May be heard in committee January 5.
• 2017-01-19 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2017-02-13 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2017-03-01 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (February 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-03-27 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-03-28 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2017-04-05 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 5). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-04-06 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-04-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1261.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-04-27 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-05-10 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2017-06-06 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 6). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-06-26 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2017-09-01 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (September 1). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-09-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-08 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2017-09-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-12 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2017-09-14 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2912.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-14 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2017-09-14 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2017-09-14 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3421.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-25 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m.
• 2017-10-12 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-10-12 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 694, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c4d00172-f188-4cd6-a578-3c185e0d7ee2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).