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Bill	Sexual assault and other sexual misconduct: statutes of limitations on civil actions.	Existing law sets the time for commencement of any civil action for recovery of damages suffered as a result of sexual assault, as defined, to the later of within 10 years from the date of the last act, attempted act, or assault with intent to commit an act, of sexual assault by the defendant against the plaintiff or within 3 years from the date the plaintiff discovers or reasonably should have discovered that an injury or illness resulted from an act, attempted act, or assault with intent to commit an act, of sexual assault by the defendant against the plaintiff. Existing law provides that this limitation applies to any action of that type that is commenced on or after January 1, 2019.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 1510	California AB 1510 (20192020)	bill	Sexual assault and other sexual misconduct: statutes of limitations on civil actions.	enacted	Reyes	8	30	7	2019-02-22	2019-10-02	openstates	ocd-bill/84c5e54a-555d-44b8-9243-d619c04483e4	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1510	919d20268e0d7da82ac0f051085fc5f30fd8700a0ffd6c1e6fcbb4fdffca32e6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1510 (20192020) — Sexual assault and other sexual misconduct: statutes of limitations on civil actions.

Existing law sets the time for commencement of any civil action for recovery of damages suffered as a result of sexual assault, as defined, to the later of within 10 years from the date of the last act, attempted act, or assault with intent to commit an act, of sexual assault by the defendant against the plaintiff or within 3 years from the date the plaintiff discovers or reasonably should have discovered that an injury or illness resulted from an act, attempted act, or assault with intent to commit an act, of sexual assault by the defendant against the plaintiff. Existing law provides that this limitation applies to any action of that type that is commenced on or after January 1, 2019.

Version chain

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

1. 02/22/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/28/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/10/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/06/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/30/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/02/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1510 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/12/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety] — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1510 Reyes Assembly Third Reading — 65–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 6–1 (pass) · upper
• AB 1510 Reyes Concurrence - Urgency Added — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1510 Reyes et al. By Jackson Urgency Clause — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Reyes — primary (person)
• Carrillo — coauthor (person)
• Cervantes — coauthor (person)
• Eduardo Garcia — coauthor (person)
• Leyva — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-22 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2019-02-23 From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
• 2019-02-25 Read first time. reading-1
• 2019-03-14 Referred to Coms. on JUD. and PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2019-03-28 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-01 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2019-04-09 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 9). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-10 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-04-11 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2019-04-22 Assembly Rule 96 suspended. (Page 1261.)
• 2019-04-22 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2019-04-22 Ordered to second reading.
• 2019-04-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-06 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1503.) amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 0. Page 1586.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-09 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-05-22 Referred to Coms. on JUD. and APPR. referral-committee
• 2019-06-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-07-01 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2019-08-07 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2019-08-19 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-08-30 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (August 30). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-08-30 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-04 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2523.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-05 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 7 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2019-09-09 Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 3132.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-17 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-10-02 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-02 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 462, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/84c5e54a-555d-44b8-9243-d619c04483e4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).