republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/ab-620.md

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Bill	Coroner: sudden unexplained death in childhood.	Existing law requires the coroner to inquire into and determine the circumstances, manner, and cause of certain deaths, including, but not limited to, a sudden or unusual death. Existing law, with certain exceptions, requires the coroner to, among other things, perform an autopsy, within 24 hours or as soon thereafter as feasible, in any case where an infant under one year of age has died suddenly and unexpectedly and authorizes the coroner to take tissue samples without parental consent.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 620	California AB 620 (20192020)	bill	Coroner: sudden unexplained death in childhood.	enacted	Cooley	5	21	9	2019-02-15	2019-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/4669913b-ff6c-44fb-b3f2-e891bfa5a419	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB620	721cbfd2a371fb0cc66ddfaa1a3ae317d772cfec5900f3e296098d6c214f955a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 620 (20192020) — Coroner: sudden unexplained death in childhood.

Existing law requires the coroner to inquire into and determine the circumstances, manner, and cause of certain deaths, including, but not limited to, a sudden or unusual death. Existing law, with certain exceptions, requires the coroner to, among other things, perform an autopsy, within 24 hours or as soon thereafter as feasible, in any case where an infant under one year of age has died suddenly and unexpectedly and authorizes the coroner to take tissue samples without parental consent.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/24/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 10/08/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB620 (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/13/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• [06-19-2019] set for [First] hearing: Reconsideration of favorable vote granted — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB620 Cooley By Pan — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 620 Cooley Assembly Third Reading — 70–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 620 Cooley Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 71–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Cooley — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-15 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2019-02-28 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2019-03-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (March 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-03 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 3). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-04-04 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-04-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 1. Page 1348.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-04-25 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-05-08 Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2019-05-29 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2019-06-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-06-20 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 18). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-06-24 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-12 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2019-08-13 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-04 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2512.). 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.
• 2019-09-10 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 71. Noes 1. Page 3314.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-18 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 614, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4669913b-ff6c-44fb-b3f2-e891bfa5a419. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).