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type: "Bill"
title: "Sex crimes: investigation and prosecution."
description: "Existing law requires the Office of Emergency Services to establish an advisory committee to develop a training course for district attorneys in the investigation and prosecution of sexual assault cases, child sexual exploitation cases, and child sexual abuse cases, including training in the unique emotional trauma experienced by victims of those crimes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 640"
citation: "California AB 640 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Sex crimes: investigation and prosecution."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Frazier"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-02-15"
last_action: "2019-08-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/98ea0a1a-d64a-4a7e-bc36-e9ffc83e9597"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB640"
source_hash: "ce1038f5d95e5deddcddb21235521a259d509c71b04d85b2a74611a143586b5a"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---
# California AB 640 (20192020) — Sex crimes: investigation and prosecution.
Existing law requires the Office of Emergency Services to establish an advisory committee to develop a training course for district attorneys in the investigation and prosecution of sexual assault cases, child sexual exploitation cases, and child sexual abuse cases, including training in the unique emotional trauma experienced by victims of those crimes.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/15/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB640&version=20190AB64099INT)
2. **08/30/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB640&version=20190AB64097CHP)
3. **AB640** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB640)
4. **08/16/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB640&version=20190AB64098ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass. — **170** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **80** (pass) · lower
- AB 640 Frazier Assembly Third Reading — **750** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar AB640 — **370** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Frazier — 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.
- **2019-03-07** 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`
- **2019-04-10** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 10). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-16** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1763.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-16** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-05-29** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2019-07-02** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-08-12** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2019-08-13** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-08-15** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2183.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-08-15** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2019-08-23** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2019-08-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-08-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 177, Statutes of 2019.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/98ea0a1a-d64a-4a7e-bc36-e9ffc83e9597`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).