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type: "Bill"
title: "Children's advocacy centers: recordings."
description: "Existing law authorizes a county to use a children's advocacy center to implement a coordinated multidisciplinary response, as specified, to investigate reports involving child physical or sexual abuse, exploitation, or maltreatment. Existing law requires a county that utilizes a child advocacy center for these purposes to meet specified standards, including, among other things, that the children's advocacy center must verify that interviews conducted in the course of investigations are conducted in a forensically sound manner and occur in a child-focused setting designed to provide a safe, comfortable, and dedicated place for children and families."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "SB 603"
citation: "California SB 603 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Children's advocacy centers", "recordings"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rubio"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 25
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-02-15"
last_action: "2023-10-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8346e98a-956f-4947-bca6-429a2731359b"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB603"
source_hash: "bbba4811607a7e46d03ad4e5f88c0d22e8abeff1802691dec5dc6d462e6ba798"
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 603 (20232024) — Children's advocacy centers: recordings.
Existing law authorizes a county to use a children's advocacy center to implement a coordinated multidisciplinary response, as specified, to investigate reports involving child physical or sexual abuse, exploitation, or maltreatment. Existing law requires a county that utilizes a child advocacy center for these purposes to meet specified standards, including, among other things, that the children's advocacy center must verify that interviews conducted in the course of investigations are conducted in a forensically sound manner and occur in a child-focused setting designed to provide a safe, comfortable, and dedicated place for children and families.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/15/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB603&version=20230SB60399INT)
2. **05/01/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB603&version=20230SB60398AMD)
3. **08/28/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB603&version=20230SB60397AMD)
4. **10/10/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB603&version=20230SB60395CHP)
5. **SB603** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB603)
6. **09/08/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB603&version=20230SB60396ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass. — **80** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB603 Rubio Concurrence — **390** (pass) · upper
- SB 603 Rubio Senate Third Reading By Bonta — **730** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent — **390** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **50** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Rubio — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-02-15** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-16** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
- **2023-02-22** Referred to Com. on PUB S. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-02** Set for hearing March 21.
- **2023-03-06** March 21 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2023-03-07** Set for hearing March 28.
- **2023-03-22** March 28 set for second hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2023-03-23** Set for hearing April 25.
- **2023-04-27** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 901.) (April 25). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-01** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-05-09** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2023-05-11** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1057.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-05-11** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-18** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-05** June 13 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2023-06-28** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 27). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-29** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-08-28** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-08-28** Ordered to third reading.
- **2023-09-01** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 2883.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-09-01** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2023-09-06** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2421.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-09-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2023-10-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2023-10-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 717, 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/8346e98a-956f-4947-bca6-429a2731359b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).