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Bill	Domestic violence: deaths.	(1) Existing law generally prohibits a copy, reproduction, or facsimile of any kind of a photograph, negative, or print, including instant photographs and video recordings, of the body, or any portion of the body, of a deceased person, taken by or for the coroner at the scene of death or in the course of a postmortem examination or autopsy, from being made or disseminated. Existing law authorizes the use of a copy, reproduction, or facsimile described above in specified circumstances, including for use in a potential civil action if the coroner receives written authorization from a legal heir or representative of that person before the civil action is filed or while the action is pending. Existing law requires the identity of the legal heir to be verified by, including other things, a declaration under the penalty of perjury that the individual is a legal heir or representative of the deceased person.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 989	California SB 989 (20232024)	bill	Domestic violence deaths	enacted	Ashby	9	36	10	2024-01-30	2024-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/90cc9b5c-454d-4ce0-b831-4306b7905644	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB989	4b85d2e34242a6a126e354c65e90b5badd377c87ca1a88360876c7b168be41f5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 989 (20232024) — Domestic violence: deaths.

(1) Existing law generally prohibits a copy, reproduction, or facsimile of any kind of a photograph, negative, or print, including instant photographs and video recordings, of the body, or any portion of the body, of a deceased person, taken by or for the coroner at the scene of death or in the course of a postmortem examination or autopsy, from being made or disseminated. Existing law authorizes the use of a copy, reproduction, or facsimile described above in specified circumstances, including for use in a potential civil action if the coroner receives written authorization from a legal heir or representative of that person before the civil action is filed or while the action is pending. Existing law requires the identity of the legal heir to be verified by, including other things, a declaration under the penalty of perjury that the individual is a legal heir or representative of the deceased person.

Version chain

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

1. 01/30/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/18/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/17/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/25/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/20/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/22/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/27/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. SB989 (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/30/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 989 Ashby Senate Third Reading By Pellerin — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent SB989 Ashby et al. — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading SB989 Ashby et al. — 36–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ashby — primary (person)
• Caballero — coauthor (person)
• Rubio — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-30 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2024-01-31 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 1.
• 2024-02-14 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2024-03-18 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-04-03 Re-referred to Coms. on PUB S. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2024-04-04 Set for hearing April 16.
• 2024-04-12 Set for hearing April 23 in JUD. pending receipt.
• 2024-04-16 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 3637.) (April 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-17 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-04-24 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 3724.) (April 23). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-25 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-05-03 Set for hearing May 13.
• 2024-05-13 May 13 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2024-05-14 Set for hearing May 16.
• 2024-05-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 3967.) (May 16). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-05-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-20 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-05-20 Ordered to second reading.
• 2024-05-21 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-23 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4191.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-05-24 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2024-06-03 Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2024-06-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-06-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-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
• 2024-08-22 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-22 Ordered to third reading.
• 2024-08-26 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6524.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-26 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2024-08-27 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2024-08-28 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5613.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-09-04 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2024-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 654, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/90cc9b5c-454d-4ce0-b831-4306b7905644. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).