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Bill	Sexual assault: victim's rights.	Existing law, the Sexual Assault Victims' DNA Bill of Rights, requires that sexual assault victims be provided with specified information about their case, including the status of the DNA testing of the rape kit evidence or other crime scheme evidence from the victim's case. Existing law, subject to commitment of sufficient resources to respond to requests for information, gives sexual assault victims the right to be informed whether or not a DNA profile of the assailant was obtained from testing of the rape kit or other evidence, whether that evidence has been submitted to the state database, and whether a DNA match was found.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 916	California SB 916 (20212022)	bill	Sexual assault: victim's rights.	enacted	Leyva	5	29	8	2022-02-02	2022-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/93f2f463-9d1b-4399-a2ae-93e56cccecb4	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB916	1599acd3abd8b61550943e9ce408b79129d0c5735fb4097136680415e425c01d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 916 (20212022) — Sexual assault: victim's rights.

Existing law, the Sexual Assault Victims' DNA Bill of Rights, requires that sexual assault victims be provided with specified information about their case, including the status of the DNA testing of the rape kit evidence or other crime scheme evidence from the victim's case. Existing law, subject to commitment of sufficient resources to respond to requests for information, gives sexual assault victims the right to be informed whether or not a DNA profile of the assailant was obtained from testing of the rape kit or other evidence, whether that evidence has been submitted to the state database, and whether a DNA match was found.

Version chain

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

1. 02/02/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 08/22/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 09/28/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. SB916 (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/08/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 916 Leyva Senate Third Reading By Quirk — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB916 Leyva et al. Concurrence — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent SB916 — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Leyva — primary (person)
• Ochoa Bogh — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-02 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2022-02-03 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 5.
• 2022-02-07 Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
• 2022-02-07 (Ayes 31. Noes 6.)
• 2022-02-07 Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 31. Noes 6. Page 2880.)
• 2022-02-09 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2022-02-24 Set for hearing March 15.
• 2022-03-15 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 3109.) (March 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-03-25 Set for hearing April 4.
• 2022-04-04 April 4 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2022-05-13 Set for hearing May 19.
• 2022-05-19 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3775.) (May 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-05-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-23 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2022-05-25 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 3930.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-26 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2022-06-02 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2022-06-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-08-03 August 3 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2022-08-11 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (August 11). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-22 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-22 Ordered to third reading.
• 2022-08-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-31 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2022-08-31 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5396.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2022-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 709, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/93f2f463-9d1b-4399-a2ae-93e56cccecb4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).