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Bill	Sex offenses: evidence.	(1) Existing law prohibits, during the prosecution of specified sex crimes, the admission of evidence of the manner in which the victim was dressed, when offered by either the prosecution or the defendant on the issue of consent, unless the court finds the evidence relevant and admissible in the interests of justice.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 939	California AB 939 (20212022)	bill	Sex offenses: evidence.	enacted	Cervantes	7	25	5	2021-02-17	2021-10-05	openstates	ocd-bill/1f28e3df-daa6-4649-b25a-573174cc8a34	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB939	677da37580771fec6c6cb2c0075345e61a014f43b856a86061c2797ad02aeb0d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 939 (20212022) — Sex offenses: evidence.

(1) Existing law prohibits, during the prosecution of specified sex crimes, the admission of evidence of the manner in which the victim was dressed, when offered by either the prosecution or the defendant on the issue of consent, unless the court finds the evidence relevant and admissible in the interests of justice.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/18/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/17/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/03/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/05/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB939 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/13/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 939 Cervantes Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 939 Cervantes Assembly Third Reading — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB939 Cervantes et al. By Rubio — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Cervantes — primary (person)
• Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
• Akilah Weber — coauthor (person)
• Bauer-Kahan — author (person)
• Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
• Boerner Horvath — coauthor (person)
• Burke — coauthor (person)
• Caballero — coauthor (person)
• Calderon — coauthor (person)
• Carrillo — coauthor (person)
• Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
• Durazo — coauthor (person)
• Friedman — coauthor (person)
• Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
• Hurtado — coauthor (person)
• Irwin — coauthor (person)
• Laird — coauthor (person)
• Limón — coauthor (person)
• Lorena Gonzalez — author (person)
• Low — coauthor (person)
• Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
• Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
• Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
• Reyes — coauthor (person)
• Rubio — principal coauthor (person)
• Seyarto — coauthor (person)
• Skinner — coauthor (person)
• Ward — coauthor (person)
• Wicks — coauthor (person)
• Wiener — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2021-02-18 From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
• 2021-03-18 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2021-03-18 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
• 2021-03-22 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2021-04-20 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2021-04-28 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 27). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-17 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1428.) amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-05-24 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1540.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-05-25 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-06-03 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2021-07-14 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 13). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-07-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-17 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2021-08-23 From special consent calendar.
• 2021-08-23 Ordered to third reading.
• 2021-09-03 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2516.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-08 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2021-09-09 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 2976.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2021-10-05 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-10-05 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 529, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1f28e3df-daa6-4649-b25a-573174cc8a34. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).