republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-271.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Homeless death review committees."
description: "Existing law authorizes counties to establish interagency child death teams and elder death teams to assist local agencies in identifying and reviewing suspicious deaths and facilitating communications between local organizations for the purposes of reducing the incidence of abuse and neglect."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 271"
citation: "California AB 271 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Homeless death review committees"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Quirk-Silva"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-01-23"
last_action: "2023-09-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3596408a-2f31-417c-b595-51c587ee3075"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB271"
source_hash: "1449612b7771fbc2bca10e7c9fddcd38ed261b79cde7e33b9d8e4fa39a18d88e"
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 271 (20232024) — Homeless death review committees.

Existing law authorizes counties to establish interagency child death teams and elder death teams to assist local agencies in identifying and reviewing suspicious deaths and facilitating communications between local organizations for the purposes of reducing the incidence of abuse and neglect.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/23/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB271&version=20230AB27199INT)
2. **02/16/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB271&version=20230AB27198AMD)
3. **06/26/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB271&version=20230AB27197AMD)
4. **09/01/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB271&version=20230AB27195CHP)
5. **AB271** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB271)
6. **08/15/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB271&version=20230AB27196ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 271 Quirk-Silva Consent Calendar Second Day — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar AB271 Quirk-Silva et al. — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Human Services] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 271 Quirk-Silva Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **77–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Quirk-Silva — primary (person)
- Newman — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-23** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2023-01-24** From printer. May be heard in committee February 23.
- **2023-02-09** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-16** 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`
- **2023-02-17** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-28** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (February 28). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-01** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-03-06** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 544.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-03-06** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-03** Referred to Coms. on PUB S. and HUMAN S. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-13** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HUMAN S. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 13). Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-26** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-07-05** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 3). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-07-06** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-07-13** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2037.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-07-13** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 11 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2023-08-14** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2674.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-08-16** Enrolled measure version corrected.
- **2023-08-22** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:45 p.m.
- **2023-09-01** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2023-09-01** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 135, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3596408a-2f31-417c-b595-51c587ee3075`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).