Witness testimony in sexual assault cases: inadmissability in a separate prosecution.
Existing law makes it a crime to commit various acts of sexual assault, including sexual battery and rape. Existing law makes it a crime to possess or use various controlled substances or for a person who is under 21 years of age to purchase or consume alcohol, as specified. Existing law provides, with respect to specified proceedings or investigations regarding felony offenses, that if a person refuses to answer a question or produce evidence on the ground that the person may be incriminated and if the person is ordered to comply but would have been privileged to withhold the answer given or the evidence produced except for the order, the person shall not be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for, or on account of, any fact or act concerning which the person was required to answer or produce evidence, except as specified. Under existing law, a district attorney or other prosecuting agency may request an order granting use immunity or transactional immunity to a witness compelled to give testimony or produce evidence.
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AB 1927
California AB 1927 (20192020)
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Witness testimony in sexual assault cases: inadmissability in a separate prosecution.
California AB 1927 (20192020) — Witness testimony in sexual assault cases: inadmissability in a separate prosecution.
Existing law makes it a crime to commit various acts of sexual assault, including sexual battery and rape. Existing law makes it a crime to possess or use various controlled substances or for a person who is under 21 years of age to purchase or consume alcohol, as specified. Existing law provides, with respect to specified proceedings or investigations regarding felony offenses, that if a person refuses to answer a question or produce evidence on the ground that the person may be incriminated and if the person is ordered to comply but would have been privileged to withhold the answer given or the evidence produced except for the order, the person shall not be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for, or on account of, any fact or act concerning which the person was required to answer or produce evidence, except as specified. Under existing law, a district attorney or other prosecuting agency may request an order granting use immunity or transactional immunity to a witness compelled to give testimony or produce evidence.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass. — 5–0 (pass) · lower
Consent Calendar AB1927 — 39–0 (pass) · upper
AB 1927 Boerner Horvath Assembly Third Reading — 77–0 (pass) · lower
AB 1927 Boerner Horvath Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 75–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
Boerner Horvath — primary (person)
Bauer-Kahan — principal coauthor (person)
Caballero — coauthor (person)
Carrillo — coauthor (person)
Chau — coauthor (person)
Chu — coauthor (person)
Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
Friedman — coauthor (person)
Lackey — coauthor (person)
Limón — coauthor (person)
Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
Wicks — coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2020-01-15 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2020-01-16 From printer. May be heard in committee February 15.
2020-01-23 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
2020-03-02 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
2020-03-04 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
2020-03-10 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (March 10). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2020-03-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2020-06-10 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 4748.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
2020-06-11 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2020-07-01 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
2020-07-02 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. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
2020-08-01 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 31). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2020-08-03 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
2020-08-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4373.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
2020-08-28 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2020-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5322.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2020-09-08 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
2020-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2020-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 241, Statutes of 2020.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/14402b3b-072e-473a-97b4-603648b1c52f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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