republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-2521.md

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Bill	Criminal procedure: confidentiality and DNA testing.	Existing law, in the trial of a capital case or specified murder cases, authorizes an indigent defendant, through the defendant's counsel, to request the court for funds for the specific payment of investigators, experts, and others for preparation or presentation of the defense. Existing law requires the fact that an application has been made to be confidential and the contents of the application to be confidential. Existing law provides that this confidentiality does not preclude any court from providing the Attorney General with access to documents protected by these provisions when the defendant raises an issue on appeal or collateral review where the recorded portion of the record relates to the issue raised.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 2521	California AB 2521 (20232024)	bill	Criminal procedure confidentiality and DNA testing	enacted	Waldron	4	15	4	2024-02-13	2024-07-18	openstates	ocd-bill/b223d333-70bc-416b-b92a-88dfceaab0d2	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2521	035f673ce7c5b6c13742ffd262a1b305e455534ec7d248ef05b9551dfb82ea10	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2521 (20232024) — Criminal procedure: confidentiality and DNA testing.

Existing law, in the trial of a capital case or specified murder cases, authorizes an indigent defendant, through the defendant's counsel, to request the court for funds for the specific payment of investigators, experts, and others for preparation or presentation of the defense. Existing law requires the fact that an application has been made to be confidential and the contents of the application to be confidential. Existing law provides that this confidentiality does not preclude any court from providing the Attorney General with access to documents protected by these provisions when the defendant raises an issue on appeal or collateral review where the recorded portion of the record relates to the issue raised.

Version chain

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

1. 02/13/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 07/18/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. AB2521 (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/03/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2521 Waldron Consent Calendar Second Day — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar 2nd — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Waldron — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-13 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2024-02-14 From printer. May be heard in committee March 15.
• 2024-03-04 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2024-04-24 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 23). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-25 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5090.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-05-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2024-05-15 Referred to Com. on PUB S. referral-committee
• 2024-06-25 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 25). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-06-26 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-07-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 4850.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-07-01 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2024-07-18 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12:30 p.m.
• 2024-07-18 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-07-18 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 153, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b223d333-70bc-416b-b92a-88dfceaab0d2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).