republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/sb-534.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Victims of sexual assault."
description: "(1) Existing law provides that no costs incurred by a qualified health care professional, hospital, or other emergency medical facility for the examination of the victim of a sexual assault for the purposes of gathering evidence for possible prosecution shall be charged directly or indirectly to the victim of the assault. Existing law provides that the law enforcement agency in the jurisdiction in which the alleged sexual assault was committed which requests the examination has the option of determining whether or not the examination will be performed in the office of a physician and surgeon, and bills for those costs shall be submitted to that local jurisdiction and the local jurisdiction shall bear those costs."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "SB 534"
citation: "California SB 534 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Victims of sexual assault."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Corbett"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 29
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2011-02-17"
last_action: "2011-09-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/30c29103-1ce0-4637-b523-51efa44382a2"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB534"
source_hash: "09eb47a34c449b271668507b4cd5dcf02c586813ac6edcff3c9dcdf566185239"
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 SB 534 (20112012) — Victims of sexual assault.

(1) Existing law provides that no costs incurred by a qualified health care professional, hospital, or other emergency medical facility for the examination of the victim of a sexual assault for the purposes of gathering evidence for possible prosecution shall be charged directly or indirectly to the victim of the assault. Existing law provides that the law enforcement agency in the jurisdiction in which the alleged sexual assault was committed which requests the examination has the option of determining whether or not the examination will be performed in the office of a physician and surgeon, and bills for those costs shall be submitted to that local jurisdiction and the local jurisdiction shall bear those costs.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/17/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB534&version=20110SB53499INT)
2. **04/25/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB534&version=20110SB53498AMD)
3. **05/31/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB534&version=20110SB53497AMD)
4. **06/28/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB534&version=20110SB53496AMD)
5. **08/15/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB534&version=20110SB53495AMD)
6. **08/26/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB534&version=20110SB53494AMD)
7. **09/29/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB534&version=20110SB53492CHP)
8. **SB534** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB534)
9. **09/02/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB534&version=20110SB53493ENR)

## Votes

- SB 534 Corbett Senate Third Reading By SKINNER — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB534 Corbett Concurrence — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **9–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Corbett — primary (person)
- Hancock — coauthor (person)
- Liu — coauthor (person)
- Price — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-02-17** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2011-02-18** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 20.
- **2011-03-03** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-17** Set for hearing March 29.
- **2011-03-29** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 495.) (March 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-04-01** Set for hearing April 11.
- **2011-04-06** Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2011-04-13** Set for hearing May 2.
- **2011-04-25** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-05-02** Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2011-05-20** Set for hearing May 26.
- **2011-05-31** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 1118.) (May 26). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-31** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-06-02** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1276.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-06-02** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2011-06-13** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-27** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 21). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-06-28** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-08-15** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-08-17** Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2011-08-26** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 25). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-08-26** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-08-29** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-08-31** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2753.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-08-31** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2011-09-01** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 2241.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2011-09-09** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 9:45 a.m.
- **2011-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2011-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 360, Statutes of 2011.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/30c29103-1ce0-4637-b523-51efa44382a2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).