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Bill	Infectious and communicable diseases: HIV and AIDS: criminal penalties.	(1) Existing law makes it a felony punishable by imprisonment for 3, 5, or 8 years in the state prison to expose another person to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) by engaging in unprotected sexual activity when the infected person knows at the time of the unprotected sex that he or she is infected with HIV, has not disclosed his or her HIV-positive status, and acts with the specific intent to infect the other person with HIV. Existing law makes it a felony punishable by imprisonment for 2, 4, or 6 years for any person to donate blood, tissue, or, under specified circumstances, semen or breast milk, if the person knows that he or she has acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) , or that he or she has tested reactive to HIV. Existing law provides that a person who is afflicted with a contagious, infectious, or communicable disease who willfully exposes himself or herself to another person, or any person who willfully exposes another person afflicted with the disease to someone else, is guilty of a misdemeanor.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	SB 239	California SB 239 (20172018)	bill	Infectious and communicable diseases: HIV and AIDS: criminal penalties.	enacted	Wiener	9	29	4	2017-02-06	2017-10-06	openstates	ocd-bill/c566e8e1-4176-469c-bfd0-032651a1a315	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB239	738c3cf4b723dd35d05cbb75b09c66951fc72aff0d94710f9b7fbce122cfeda2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 239 (20172018) — Infectious and communicable diseases: HIV and AIDS: criminal penalties.

(1) Existing law makes it a felony punishable by imprisonment for 3, 5, or 8 years in the state prison to expose another person to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) by engaging in unprotected sexual activity when the infected person knows at the time of the unprotected sex that he or she is infected with HIV, has not disclosed his or her HIV-positive status, and acts with the specific intent to infect the other person with HIV. Existing law makes it a felony punishable by imprisonment for 2, 4, or 6 years for any person to donate blood, tissue, or, under specified circumstances, semen or breast milk, if the person knows that he or she has acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) , or that he or she has tested reactive to HIV. Existing law provides that a person who is afflicted with a contagious, infectious, or communicable disease who willfully exposes himself or herself to another person, or any person who willfully exposes another person afflicted with the disease to someone else, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Version chain

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

1. 02/06/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/21/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/04/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/26/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/21/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/28/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/06/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. SB239 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/13/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 9–5 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB239 Wiener et al. Concurrence — 24–12 (pass) · upper
• SB 239 Wiener Senate Third Reading By GLORIA — 52–19 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Wiener — primary (person)
• Atkins — coauthor (person)
• Chiu — coauthor (person)
• Eggman — coauthor (person)
• Gipson — coauthor (person)
• Gloria — principal coauthor (person)
• Mitchell — coauthor (person)
• Skinner — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-06 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2017-02-07 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 9.
• 2017-02-16 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2017-03-09 Set for hearing March 28.
• 2017-03-21 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-04-03 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 514.) (March 28). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2017-04-04 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2017-04-13 Set for hearing April 24.
• 2017-04-24 April 24 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2017-05-19 Set for hearing May 25.
• 2017-05-26 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1180.) (May 25). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2017-05-26 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-05-26 Published May 26 at 2 p.m.
• 2017-05-31 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 26. Noes 12. Page 1339.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-06-01 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2017-06-12 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2017-06-21 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-06-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-07-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (July 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-08-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 5.) (August 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-08-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-08-28 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2017-08-28 Ordered to third reading.
• 2017-09-07 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 52. Noes 19. Page 3035.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-08 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2017-09-11 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 24. Noes 12. Page 2691.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-15 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2017-10-06 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-10-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 537, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c566e8e1-4176-469c-bfd0-032651a1a315. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).