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Bill	Emergency departments: assault and battery.	Existing law defines an assault as an unlawful attempt, coupled with present ability, to commit a violent injury on the person of another. Existing law defines a battery as any willful and unlawful use of force or violence upon the person of another. Under existing law, an assault or battery committed against a physician or nurse engaged in rendering emergency medical care outside a hospital, clinic, or other health care facility is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, by a fine not exceeding $2,000, or by both that fine and imprisonment.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 977	California AB 977 (20232024)	bill	Emergency departments assault and battery	enacted	Rodriguez	7	30	8	2023-02-14	2024-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/799cbbb2-a4f6-4961-ab15-46fe0fb4f9ed	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB977	e1b770dc4a15a9e82c3a949031e87a4fb6568efe0316693221be3affd47439e5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 977 (20232024) — Emergency departments: assault and battery.

Existing law defines an assault as an unlawful attempt, coupled with present ability, to commit a violent injury on the person of another. Existing law defines a battery as any willful and unlawful use of force or violence upon the person of another. Under existing law, an assault or battery committed against a physician or nurse engaged in rendering emergency medical care outside a hospital, clinic, or other health care facility is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, by a fine not exceeding $2,000, or by both that fine and imprisonment.

Version chain

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

1. 02/14/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/10/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/15/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/19/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/29/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB977 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/03/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB977 Rodriguez et al. By Ashby — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 977 Rodriguez Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 72–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 977 Rodriguez Assembly Third Reading — 68–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 3–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Rodriguez — primary (person)
• Alvarado-Gil — coauthor (person)
• Ashby — principal coauthor (person)
• Dodd — coauthor (person)
• Villapudua — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-14 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2023-02-15 From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
• 2023-02-23 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2023-03-15 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
• 2023-03-16 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2023-03-21 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2023-03-28 In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2024-01-09 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (January 9). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-01-10 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-01-11 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2024-01-18 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2024-01-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (January 18). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-01-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 0. Page 3945.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-01-29 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2024-05-01 Referred to Com. on PUB S. referral-committee
• 2024-06-04 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 3. Noes 1.) (June 4). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-06-18 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2024-07-01 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2024-08-15 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 15). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-08-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-19 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. 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.
• 2024-08-28 Assembly Rule 77 suspended.
• 2024-08-29 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 72. 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 937, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/799cbbb2-a4f6-4961-ab15-46fe0fb4f9ed. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).