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Bill	Death penalty: person with an intellectual disability.	Existing law authorizes a defendant to apply, prior to the commencement of trial, for an order directing that a hearing to determine intellectual disability be conducted when the prosecution in a criminal case seeks the death penalty. Existing law requires the court to order a hearing to determine whether the defendant has an intellectual disability upon the submission of a declaration by a qualified expert stating the expert's opinion that the defendant is a person with an intellectual disability. Existing law defines "intellectual disability" for these purposes as a condition of significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested before 18 years of age.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 2512	California AB 2512 (20192020)	bill	Death penalty: person with an intellectual disability.	enacted	Mark Stone	7	20	4	2020-02-19	2020-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/bcd130c8-626d-4c63-a2f6-856214314535	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2512	4f47da24169c68d7059f451fee2bb6249351b22677bee832557bd3e350a2e673	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2512 (20192020) — Death penalty: person with an intellectual disability.

Existing law authorizes a defendant to apply, prior to the commencement of trial, for an order directing that a hearing to determine intellectual disability be conducted when the prosecution in a criminal case seeks the death penalty. Existing law requires the court to order a hearing to determine whether the defendant has an intellectual disability upon the submission of a declaration by a qualified expert stating the expert's opinion that the defendant is a person with an intellectual disability. Existing law defines "intellectual disability" for these purposes as a condition of significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested before 18 years of age.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/20 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/06/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/14/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/08/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/30/20 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB2512 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/31/20 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 6–1 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2512 Mark Stone et al. By Bradford — 30–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2512 Mark Stone Assembly Third Reading — 57–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Mark Stone — primary (person)
• Bloom — coauthor (person)
• Bonta — coauthor (person)
• Chiu — coauthor (person)
• Kalra — coauthor (person)
• Mullin — coauthor (person)
• Quirk — coauthor (person)
• Ting — coauthor (person)
• Wicks — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-02-19 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2020-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2020-02-27 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2020-05-06 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
• 2020-05-07 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2020-05-14 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
• 2020-05-18 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2020-05-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (May 19). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2020-05-21 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-06-08 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 4679.) amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-06-15 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 57. Noes 0. Page 4851.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-06-16 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2020-07-01 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2020-08-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 31). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2020-08-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 1. Page 4372.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-28 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2020-09-04 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2020-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2020-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 331, Statutes of 2020.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bcd130c8-626d-4c63-a2f6-856214314535. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).