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Bill	Evidence: sexual assault.	Under existing law, in any civil action that contains allegations of sexual harassment, sexual assault, or sexual battery, opinion evidence, reputation evidence, and evidence of specific instances of a plaintiff's sexual conduct with someone other than the alleged perpetrator, is not admissible by the defendant in order to prove consent by the plaintiff or the absence of injury to the plaintiff.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 1386	California SB 1386 (20232024)	bill	Evidence sexual assault	enacted	Caballero	7	22	5	2024-02-16	2024-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/26c2f4d2-6510-4d0d-a82f-1fd0b650700e	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1386	802291e8847dbd9752f266f9a82422511092de9425c028f0137c24bfe18bbb3b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 1386 (20232024) — Evidence: sexual assault.

Under existing law, in any civil action that contains allegations of sexual harassment, sexual assault, or sexual battery, opinion evidence, reputation evidence, and evidence of specific instances of a plaintiff's sexual conduct with someone other than the alleged perpetrator, is not admissible by the defendant in order to prove consent by the plaintiff or the absence of injury to the plaintiff.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/19/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/12/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/22/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/29/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB1386 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/03/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 1386 Caballero Senate Third Reading By Petrie-Norris — 72–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB1386 Caballero et al. Concurrence — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading SB1386 Caballero et al. — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Caballero — primary (person)
• Ashby — coauthor (person)
• Atkins — coauthor (person)
• Blakespear — coauthor (person)
• Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
• Boerner — coauthor (person)
• Menjivar — coauthor (person)
• Ortega — coauthor (person)
• Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
• Rubio — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-16 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2024-02-20 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
• 2024-02-29 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2024-03-19 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-03-28 Set for hearing April 9.
• 2024-04-10 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 3531.) (April 9). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-20 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4011.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-05-21 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2024-05-28 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2024-06-04 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 4). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-06-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-12 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-12 Ordered to third reading.
• 2024-08-22 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-22 Ordered to third reading.
• 2024-08-28 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 6695.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-28 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2024-08-29 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5644.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2024-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 993, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/26c2f4d2-6510-4d0d-a82f-1fd0b650700e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).