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Bill	Deaths while in law enforcement custody: reporting.	Under existing law, when a person who is in custody dies, the agency with jurisdiction over the state or local correctional facility with custodial responsibility for the person at the time of their death is required to post specified information, including the date on which the death occurred and the decedent's age, race, and gender, on its internet website within 10 days of the death. Existing law requires the agency to update the posting within 30 days if any information regarding the death changes.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 2531	California AB 2531 (20232024)	bill	Deaths while in law enforcement custody reporting	enacted	Bryan	9	37	7	2024-02-13	2024-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/082c6697-96d6-4d27-bd37-c3c518571cb2	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2531	188d21d8a19ab068f4db9f049215eb63390abf679e4ef98b624fcc39ec3d2489	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2531 (20232024) — Deaths while in law enforcement custody: reporting.

Under existing law, when a person who is in custody dies, the agency with jurisdiction over the state or local correctional facility with custodial responsibility for the person at the time of their death is required to post specified information, including the date on which the death occurred and the decedent's age, race, and gender, on its internet website within 10 days of the death. Existing law requires the agency to update the posting within 30 days if any information regarding the death changes.

Version chain

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

1. 02/13/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/21/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/03/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/15/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/30/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/22/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/29/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB2531 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/03/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Privacy and Consumer Protection] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2531 Bryan Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar 2nd — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2531 Bryan By Menjivar — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2531 Bryan Assembly Third Reading — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 14–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bryan — 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.
• 2024-03-21 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2024-03-21 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-04-01 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2024-04-03 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-04-04 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2024-04-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-04-15 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-04-16 Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2024-04-18 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. referral-committee
• 2024-05-01 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 1). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-05-02 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-06 From Consent Calendar.
• 2024-05-06 Ordered to third reading.
• 2024-05-20 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5315.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-05-21 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2024-05-29 Referred to Com. on PUB S. referral-committee
• 2024-05-30 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on PUB S. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-06-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-06-24 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2024-06-25 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-06-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-06-27 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 29 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2024-08-05 Ordered to the Senate.
• 2024-08-05 In Senate. Held at Desk.
• 2024-08-22 Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, passed, and to Assembly. passage, reading-3
• 2024-08-22 Ordered to third reading.
• 2024-08-22 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-28 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2024-08-29 Assembly Rule 77 suspended.
• 2024-08-29 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2024-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 968, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/082c6697-96d6-4d27-bd37-c3c518571cb2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).