Fabio
84 lines
5.2 KiB
Markdown
84 lines
5.2 KiB
Markdown
---
|
||
type: "Bill"
|
||
title: "Criminal procedure: victim and witness privacy."
|
||
description: "Existing law prohibits an attorney from disclosing to a defendant, members of the defendant's family, or anyone else, the address or telephone number of a victim or witness whose name is disclosed to the attorney through discovery, unless specifically permitted to do so by the court after a hearing and a showing of good cause. Existing law makes a willful violation of these provisions a misdemeanor."
|
||
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
|
||
legislature: "California Legislature"
|
||
session: "20212022"
|
||
identifier: "AB 419"
|
||
citation: "California AB 419 (20212022)"
|
||
classification: ["bill"]
|
||
subjects: ["Criminal procedure: victim and witness privacy."]
|
||
status: "enacted"
|
||
primary_sponsors: ["Davies"]
|
||
version_count: 6
|
||
action_count: 19
|
||
vote_count: 4
|
||
first_action: "2021-02-04"
|
||
last_action: "2021-07-16"
|
||
source: "openstates"
|
||
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/19a5988e-6c7f-45f1-b14c-1043155cb7a4"
|
||
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB419"
|
||
source_hash: "a37b7aa6641d75320c32d778a0f8919dcd5a44e76cc4fe40eb33ea72b1b781f3"
|
||
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 419 (20212022) — Criminal procedure: victim and witness privacy.
|
||
|
||
Existing law prohibits an attorney from disclosing to a defendant, members of the defendant's family, or anyone else, the address or telephone number of a victim or witness whose name is disclosed to the attorney through discovery, unless specifically permitted to do so by the court after a hearing and a showing of good cause. Existing law makes a willful violation of these provisions a misdemeanor.
|
||
|
||
## Version chain
|
||
|
||
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
|
||
|
||
1. **02/04/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB419&version=20210AB41999INT)
|
||
2. **03/09/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB419&version=20210AB41998AMD)
|
||
3. **03/25/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB419&version=20210AB41997AMD)
|
||
4. **07/16/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB419&version=20210AB41995CHP)
|
||
5. **AB419** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB419)
|
||
6. **07/06/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB419&version=20210AB41996ENR)
|
||
|
||
## Votes
|
||
|
||
- AB 419 Davies Assembly Third Reading — **74–0** (pass) · lower
|
||
- Special Consent AB419 — **38–0** (pass) · upper
|
||
- Do pass — **5–0** (pass) · upper
|
||
- Do pass as amended. — **8–0** (pass) · lower
|
||
|
||
## Sponsors
|
||
|
||
- Davies — primary (person)
|
||
|
||
## Timeline
|
||
|
||
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
|
||
|
||
- **2021-02-04** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
|
||
- **2021-02-05** From printer. May be heard in committee March 7.
|
||
- **2021-02-12** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
|
||
- **2021-03-09** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
|
||
- **2021-03-10** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
|
||
- **2021-03-24** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (March 23). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
|
||
- **2021-03-25** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
|
||
- **2021-04-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
|
||
- **2021-04-12** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 962.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
|
||
- **2021-04-12** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
|
||
- **2021-05-12** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
|
||
- **2021-06-22** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 22). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
|
||
- **2021-06-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
|
||
- **2021-06-30** Ordered to special consent calendar.
|
||
- **2021-07-05** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1805.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
|
||
- **2021-07-05** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
|
||
- **2021-07-08** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1 p.m.
|
||
- **2021-07-16** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
|
||
- **2021-07-16** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 91, Statutes of 2021. `became-law`
|
||
|
||
## Source
|
||
|
||
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/19a5988e-6c7f-45f1-b14c-1043155cb7a4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
|
||
|