republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/sb-442.md

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Bill	Sexual battery.	Existing law prohibits several forms of sexual battery, including, among others, the touching of an intimate part of another person, if the touching is against the will of the person touched and is for the purpose of sexual arousal, sexual gratification, or sexual abuse. Existing law also defines sexual battery as causing another person, against that person's will while that person is unlawfully restrained by the accused or an accomplice, to touch an intimate part of either of those persons or a 3rd person for the purpose of sexual arousal, sexual gratification, or sexual abuse. Under existing law, sexual battery is punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 442	California SB 442 (20232024)	bill	Sexual battery	enacted	Limón	5	27	7	2023-02-13	2024-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/277ee0e6-ba46-453a-b3e6-9fd7507c50d7	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB442	457b36ebd8f818e7741491d98ea46dcfc63fb0e6b39d902437b739f62319abfc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 442 (20232024) — Sexual battery.

Existing law prohibits several forms of sexual battery, including, among others, the touching of an intimate part of another person, if the touching is against the will of the person touched and is for the purpose of sexual arousal, sexual gratification, or sexual abuse. Existing law also defines sexual battery as causing another person, against that person's will while that person is unlawfully restrained by the accused or an accomplice, to touch an intimate part of either of those persons or a 3rd person for the purpose of sexual arousal, sexual gratification, or sexual abuse. Under existing law, sexual battery is punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony.

Version chain

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

1. 02/13/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/18/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 09/29/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. SB442 (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/29/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent SB442 Limón et al. — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 442 Limón Senate Third Reading By Bennett — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 14–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Limón — primary (person)
• Atkins — coauthor (person)
• Wahab — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-13 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2023-02-14 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 16.
• 2023-02-22 Referred to Com. on PUB S. referral-committee
• 2023-03-02 Set for hearing March 21.
• 2023-03-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 426.) (March 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-03-28 Set for hearing April 10.
• 2023-04-10 April 10 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2023-05-12 Set for hearing May 18.
• 2023-05-18 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1170.) (May 18). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-18 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-26 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2023-05-30 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1364.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-31 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2023-06-08 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2023-07-11 July 11 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2024-06-04 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 4). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-06-26 June 26 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2024-07-02 July 2 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2024-08-15 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (August 15). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-08-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-27 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6663.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-28 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2024-08-28 (Corrected August 30).
• 2024-09-04 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 981, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/277ee0e6-ba46-453a-b3e6-9fd7507c50d7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).