republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20092010/ab-1738.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Domestic violence incident report."
description: "Existing law requires state and local law enforcement agencies to provide one copy of all domestic violence incident reports, one copy of all domestic violence incident report face sheets, or both, to a victim of domestic violence, upon request. Existing law also requires law enforcement agencies to provide those documents to a representative of the victim, as defined, if the victim is deceased. Existing law provides that any person requesting those documents is required to present his or her identification, as specified, and, if that person is a representative of the victim, a certified copy of the death certificate or other satisfactory evidence of the death of the victim."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 1738"
citation: "California AB 1738 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Domestic violence incident report."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tran"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 30
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2010-02-04"
last_action: "2010-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f07cdf80-f07f-4586-aa8b-b268e094e4ca"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1738"
source_hash: "697467f840397a081edd3084e3fcc9baf280a44bfb0da5c1b5d12854ee570c40"
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 1738 (20092010) — Domestic violence incident report.

Existing law requires state and local law enforcement agencies to provide one copy of all domestic violence incident reports, one copy of all domestic violence incident report face sheets, or both, to a victim of domestic violence, upon request. Existing law also requires law enforcement agencies to provide those documents to a representative of the victim, as defined, if the victim is deceased. Existing law provides that any person requesting those documents is required to present his or her identification, as specified, and, if that person is a representative of the victim, a certified copy of the death certificate or other satisfactory evidence of the death of the victim.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/04/10 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1738&version=20090AB173899INT)
2. **03/02/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1738&version=20090AB173898AMD)
3. **03/23/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1738&version=20090AB173897AMD)
4. **05/24/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1738&version=20090AB173896AMD)
5. **08/03/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1738&version=20090AB173895AMD)
6. **09/27/10 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1738&version=20090AB173893CHP)
7. **AB1738** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1738)
8. **08/19/10 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1738&version=20090AB173894ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 1738 TRAN Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB1738 Tran By Harman — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 1738 TRAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Tran — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2010-02-04** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2010-02-05** From printer. May be heard in committee March 7.
- **2010-02-18** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2010-03-02** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2010-03-03** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2010-03-04** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2010-03-22** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (March 16). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2010-03-23** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-03-24** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2010-04-14** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (April 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-04-15** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-04-22** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 4821.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-04-22** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2010-05-06** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2010-05-24** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2010-06-03** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2010-06-15** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 15). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-06-29** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 28). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-06-30** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-06-30** Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **2010-07-01** From Special Consent Calendar pursuant to Joint Rule 22.2.
- **2010-07-01** Ordered to third reading.
- **2010-08-03** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2010-08-04** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-08-11** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 4453.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-08-11** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 13 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2010-08-16** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 6219.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2010-08-26** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2010-09-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2010-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 363, Statutes of 2010.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f07cdf80-f07f-4586-aa8b-b268e094e4ca`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).