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Bill	Invasion of privacy: first responders.	Existing law generally prohibits a reproduction of any kind of photograph of the body, or any portion of the body, of a deceased person, taken by or for the coroner at the scene of death or in the course of a post mortem examination or autopsy, from being made or disseminated. Existing law generally makes a person who views, by means of any instrumentality, including, but not limited to, a camera or mobile phone, the interior of any area in which the occupant has a reasonable expectation of privacy, with the intent to invade the privacy of a person or persons inside, guilty of a misdemeanor.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 2655	California AB 2655 (20192020)	bill	Invasion of privacy: first responders.	enacted	Gipson	6	25	8	2020-02-20	2020-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/c56398ff-afcc-4783-85a4-f03517a31788	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2655	a213627db919d1daf010c81443a2d5eb5f3eb195987c70f4dd4fa7ca3f7070f8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2655 (20192020) — Invasion of privacy: first responders.

Existing law generally prohibits a reproduction of any kind of photograph of the body, or any portion of the body, of a deceased person, taken by or for the coroner at the scene of death or in the course of a post mortem examination or autopsy, from being made or disseminated. Existing law generally makes a person who views, by means of any instrumentality, including, but not limited to, a camera or mobile phone, the interior of any area in which the occupant has a reasonable expectation of privacy, with the intent to invade the privacy of a person or persons inside, guilty of a misdemeanor.

Version chain

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

1. 02/20/20 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/04/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/15/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/28/20 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB2655 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/01/20 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2655 Gipson Concurrence Vote: Final Form — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent AB2655 — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2655 Gipson Assembly Third Reading — 69–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Gipson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-02-20 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2020-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2020-04-24 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2020-05-04 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
• 2020-05-05 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2020-05-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (May 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-06-02 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2020-06-03 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 3). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2020-06-04 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-06-15 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 4882.) amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-06-18 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 4919.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-06-18 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2020-07-01 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2020-08-08 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-08-17 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2020-08-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 20). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2020-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-25 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2020-08-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4382.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-28 In Assembly.
• 2020-08-28 Vote on concurrence in final form pending.
• 2020-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5332.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2020-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2020-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 219, Statutes of 2020.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c56398ff-afcc-4783-85a4-f03517a31788. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).