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type: "Bill"
title: "Senior and disability victimization: law enforcement policies."
description: "Existing law makes it a crime for a person entrusted with the care or custody of any elder or dependent adult to willfully cause the elder or dependent adult to be injured or permit the elder or dependent adult to be placed in a situation in which the elder or dependent adult's person or health is endangered. Existing law also authorizes county adult protective services agencies and local long-term care ombudsman programs to investigate elder and dependent adult abuse, but grants law enforcement agencies the exclusive responsibility for criminal investigations. Existing law requires local law enforcement agencies and long-term care ombudsman programs to revise or include in their policy manuals, as defined, specified information regarding elder and dependent adult abuse."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "SB 338"
citation: "California SB 338 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Senior and disability victimization: law enforcement policies."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hueso"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 28
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-02-19"
last_action: "2019-10-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4ddc49e4-49ec-45d6-a492-17bce6caec2d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB338"
source_hash: "adbc0bae6c92aeec115e4fe815186a12af462890668e61e4448301d4efc67472"
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 SB 338 (20192020) — Senior and disability victimization: law enforcement policies.
Existing law makes it a crime for a person entrusted with the care or custody of any elder or dependent adult to willfully cause the elder or dependent adult to be injured or permit the elder or dependent adult to be placed in a situation in which the elder or dependent adult's person or health is endangered. Existing law also authorizes county adult protective services agencies and local long-term care ombudsman programs to investigate elder and dependent adult abuse, but grants law enforcement agencies the exclusive responsibility for criminal investigations. Existing law requires local law enforcement agencies and long-term care ombudsman programs to revise or include in their policy manuals, as defined, specified information regarding elder and dependent adult abuse.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/19/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB338&version=20190SB33899INT)
2. **03/25/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB338&version=20190SB33898AMD)
3. **04/09/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB338&version=20190SB33897AMD)
4. **06/17/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB338&version=20190SB33896AMD)
5. **08/30/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB338&version=20190SB33895AMD)
6. **10/08/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB338&version=20190SB33893CHP)
7. **SB338** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB338)
8. **09/11/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB338&version=20190SB33894ENR)
## Votes
- Unfinished Business SB338 Hueso Concurrence — **390** (pass) · upper
- SB 338 Hueso Senate Third Reading By Kalra — **790** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety] — **70** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Human Services] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **60** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading — **380** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **80** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Hueso — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-02-19** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-02-20** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
- **2019-02-28** Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and HUMAN S. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-06** Set for hearing March 26.
- **2019-03-18** March 26 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2019-03-19** Set for hearing April 2.
- **2019-03-25** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-08** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HUMAN S. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 526.) (April 2). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2019-04-09** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-10** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2019-04-10** Ordered to second reading.
- **2019-04-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-02** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 917.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-02** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2019-05-16** Referred to Coms. on AGING & L.T.C. and PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-12** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-17** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-07-09** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 9). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-07-10** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-08-30** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-08-30** Ordered to third reading.
- **2019-09-05** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3038.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-05** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2019-09-06** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2019-09-06** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2609.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-09-17** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2019-10-08** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-10-08** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 641, Statutes of 2019.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4ddc49e4-49ec-45d6-a492-17bce6caec2d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).