republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/sb-459.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Crimes: rape: great bodily injury."
description: "Existing law generally imposes an additional and consecutive term of 3 years imprisonment in the state prison on a person who personally inflicts great bodily injury on a person in the commission of a felony. Existing law imposes a 5-year enhancement on the sentence of a person who inflicts great bodily injury during the commission of a rape if the act was committed by use of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the person or another, or if the act was accomplished against the victim's will by threatening to retaliate in the future against the victim or another person. The 5-year enhancement also applies if the victim was not the perpetrator's spouse and was prevented from resisting by any intoxicating or anesthetic substance, or a controlled substance."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "SB 459"
citation: "California SB 459 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crimes: rape: great bodily injury."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Galgiani"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 26
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2019-02-21"
last_action: "2019-10-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/19531fa9-ad83-45ca-9afa-90ff03b0f63d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB459"
source_hash: "7b949ea4aa1efe9f3cab164278cfa7f65bddffc72bd4214913fea59fe0bfc796"
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 459 (20192020) — Crimes: rape: great bodily injury.

Existing law generally imposes an additional and consecutive term of 3 years imprisonment in the state prison on a person who personally inflicts great bodily injury on a person in the commission of a felony. Existing law imposes a 5-year enhancement on the sentence of a person who inflicts great bodily injury during the commission of a rape if the act was committed by use of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the person or another, or if the act was accomplished against the victim's will by threatening to retaliate in the future against the victim or another person. The 5-year enhancement also applies if the victim was not the perpetrator's spouse and was prevented from resisting by any intoxicating or anesthetic substance, or a controlled substance.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/21/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB459&version=20190SB45999INT)
2. **03/26/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB459&version=20190SB45998AMD)
3. **04/25/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB459&version=20190SB45997AMD)
4. **10/08/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB459&version=20190SB45995CHP)
5. **SB459** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB459)
6. **09/12/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB459&version=20190SB45996ENR)

## Votes

- Placed on suspense file — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 459 Galgiani Senate Third Reading By Bauer-Kahan — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent SB459 — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **18–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Galgiani — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-21** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-02-22** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
- **2019-03-07** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-26** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-03** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-05** Set for hearing April 23.
- **2019-04-24** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 803.) (April 23). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2019-04-25** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-05-03** Set for hearing May 13.
- **2019-05-13** May 13 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2019-05-14** Set for hearing May 16.
- **2019-05-16** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1099.) (May 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-05-16** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-21** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2019-05-23** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1276.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-24** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2019-06-06** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2019-07-09** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-08-14** August 14 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2019-08-30** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (August 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-09-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-09-10** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3330.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-10** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **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 646, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/19531fa9-ad83-45ca-9afa-90ff03b0f63d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).