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Bill	Coroners: duties.	Existing law requires a county coroner to inquire into and determine the circumstances, manner, and cause of certain deaths. Existing law either requires or authorizes a county coroner, under certain circumstances, to perform, or cause to be performed, an autopsy on a decedent. Existing law imposes certain requirements on a coroner conducting a postmortem examination or autopsy on an unidentified body or human remains. Existing law requires a coroner to investigate deaths that occurred under specified conditions, including without medical attendance, to ascertain as many of the facts as possible.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 1859	California AB 1859 (20232024)	bill	Coroners duties	enacted	Alanis	7	26	9	2024-01-18	2024-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/9c3177b1-502b-4c7d-b412-cf9dab25af34	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1859	82af3190421cc23a3e81ac9721c5f27652d5faf53d7ca087d5678917df8398fc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1859 (20232024) — Coroners: duties.

Existing law requires a county coroner to inquire into and determine the circumstances, manner, and cause of certain deaths. Existing law either requires or authorizes a county coroner, under certain circumstances, to perform, or cause to be performed, an autopsy on a decedent. Existing law imposes certain requirements on a coroner conducting a postmortem examination or autopsy on an unidentified body or human remains. Existing law requires a coroner to investigate deaths that occurred under specified conditions, including without medical attendance, to ascertain as many of the facts as possible.

Version chain

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

1. 01/18/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 08/05/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/15/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/20/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/27/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1859 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/04/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Health] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1859 Alanis By Seyarto — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1859 Alanis Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1859 Alanis Assembly Third Reading — 72–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Alanis — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-18 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2024-01-19 From printer. May be heard in committee February 18.
• 2024-01-29 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2024-02-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (February 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-03-20 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2024-05-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 16). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 5619.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-05-24 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2024-06-05 Referred to Coms. on PUB S. and HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2024-06-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-06-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-07-29 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2024-08-05 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-08-12 In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file. referral-committee
• 2024-08-15 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 15). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2024-08-15 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-20 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-21 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-30 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2024-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2024-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 684, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9c3177b1-502b-4c7d-b412-cf9dab25af34. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).