republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-2730.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Sexual assault: medical evidentiary examinations."
description: "Existing law requires the Office of Emergency Services to establish a protocol for the examination and treatment of victims of sexual assault and attempted sexual assault and the collection of evidence therefrom. Existing law requires a qualified health care professional who conducts an examination for evidence of a sexual assault or an attempted sexual assault to use the standard form and to make those observations and perform those tests required to record the data required by the form. Existing law defines qualified health care professional for this purpose to include a physician and surgeon, or a currently licensed nurse, nurse practitioner, or physician assistant who is working in consultation with a physician and surgeon who conducts examinations or provides treatment in a general acute care hospital or in a physician and surgeon's office."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 2730"
citation: "California AB 2730 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Sexual assault", "medical evidentiary examinations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lackey"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-02-15"
last_action: "2024-07-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e65d72e5-dd7b-42e1-aba9-b78d2ba3fd7a"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2730"
source_hash: "e9c158008047c9b9386fa2a0ffb97d3e9b297b346e3d25732c8736afbd59f1ba"
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 AB 2730 (20232024) — Sexual assault: medical evidentiary examinations.

Existing law requires the Office of Emergency Services to establish a protocol for the examination and treatment of victims of sexual assault and attempted sexual assault and the collection of evidence therefrom. Existing law requires a qualified health care professional who conducts an examination for evidence of a sexual assault or an attempted sexual assault to use the standard form and to make those observations and perform those tests required to record the data required by the form. Existing law defines qualified health care professional for this purpose to include a physician and surgeon, or a currently licensed nurse, nurse practitioner, or physician assistant who is working in consultation with a physician and surgeon who conducts examinations or provides treatment in a general acute care hospital or in a physician and surgeon's office.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/15/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2730&version=20230AB273099INT)
2. **03/07/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2730&version=20230AB273098AMD)
3. **03/13/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2730&version=20230AB273097AMD)
4. **07/15/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2730&version=20230AB273095CHP)
5. **AB2730** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2730)
6. **06/24/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2730&version=20230AB273096ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2730 Lackey Assembly Third Reading — **75–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lackey — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-15** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2024-02-16** From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
- **2024-03-04** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-07** 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`
- **2024-03-11** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-13** 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`
- **2024-03-14** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-03** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 2). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-04** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-04-11** From Consent Calendar by request of Assembly Member Essayli. To Third Reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-15** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 4780.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-04-15** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2024-05-01** Referred to Com. on PUB S. `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-11** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 11). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-06-12** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-06-17** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4530.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-06-17** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2024-07-01** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2024-07-15** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-07-15** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 113, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e65d72e5-dd7b-42e1-aba9-b78d2ba3fd7a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).