CA AB 15

vetoed

Budget Act of 2024.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Description

Existing law defines murder as the unlawful killing of a human being, or a fetus, with malice aforethought. Existing law also defines manslaughter as the unlawful killing of a human being without malice, and establishes 3 kinds of manslaughter: voluntary, involuntary, and vehicular. This bill would require a law enforcement agency to review the casefile regarding an open unsolved homicide upon written application by certain persons to determine if a reinvestigation would result in probative investigative leads, as specified. The bill would define a homicide to include murder and manslaughter and an open unsolved homicide as a homicide committed after January 1, 1990, but no less than 3 years prior to the date of the application for case review, that was investigated by a law enforcement agency, for which all probative investigative leads have been exhausted and for which no suspect has been identified. If the review determines that a reinvestigation would result in probative investigative leads, this bill would require a reinvestigation, as specified. The bill would allow only one reinvestigation from being undertaken at any one time with respect to the same victim. By imposing new duties on local law enforcement agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.

Introduced: 2025-02-24
Status date: —
Latest action: 2026-01-22 — Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file.
Bill type: bill,appropriation
Last updated: —

Subjects

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

2024-12-02
Read first time. To print.
reading-1
2024-12-03
From printer. May be heard in committee January 2.
2025-02-03
Died at Desk.
failure
2025-02-03
Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and JUD.
referral-committee
2025-02-04
From printer.
2025-02-24
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,committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2,referral-committee
2025-02-25
Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
referral-committee
2025-03-04
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (March 4). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2025-04-09
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
referral-committee
2025-05-23
Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 51. Noes 16. Page 1644.)
2025-05-23
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (May 23).
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2025-05-23
Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
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2025-05-27
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-06-03
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 2. Page 2026.)
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2025-06-04
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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2025-06-18
Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
referral-committee
2025-07-15
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 15).
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2025-07-16
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-08-18
In committee: Referred to suspense file.
referral-committee
2025-08-29
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 29).
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2025-08-29
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-09-08
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 0. Page 2600.).
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2025-09-08
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2025-09-09
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 3099.).
amendment-passage,committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2025-09-16
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
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2025-10-11
Vetoed by Governor.
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2025-10-11
Consideration of Governor's veto pending.
2026-01-22
Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file.
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Versions

12/02/24 - Introduced — 2024-12-02Compare
02/03/25 - Introduced — 2025-02-03Compare
02/24/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-02-24Compare
05/23/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-05-23Compare
07/16/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-07-16Compare
09/11/25 - Enrolled — 2025-09-11Compare
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Documents

Votes

Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-03-04 · pass · 9-0
Member-level votes (9)
- Lackey: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Haney: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Schultz: yes
Do pass as amended.
2025-05-23 · pass · 11-1
Member-level votes (15)
- Calderon: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Hart: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Solache: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Fong: yes
- Dixon: no
- Ta: other
- Sanchez: other
- Tangipa: other
AB 15 Gipson Assembly Third Reading
2025-06-04 · pass · 70-2
Member-level votes (79)
- Berman: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Fong: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Flora: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Haney: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Soria: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Papan: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Bains: yes
- Addis: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Ta: yes
- Solache: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Lee: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Patel: yes
- Ward: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Krell: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Davies: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Gipson: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Hart: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Irwin: no
- Dixon: no
- Tangipa: other
- Hadwick: other
- Calderon: other
- Castillo: other
- Michelle Rodriguez: other
- Chen: other
- Macedo: other
Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-07-15 · pass · 5-0
Member-level votes (6)
- Pérez: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Seyarto: other
Placed on suspense file
2025-08-18 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Richardson: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Grayson: yes
Do pass
2025-08-29 · pass · 5-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Richardson: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Dahle: other
- Seyarto: other
3rd Reading AB15 Gipson et al. By Richardson
2025-09-08 · pass · 30-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Wahab: yes
- Laird: yes
- Rubio: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Reyes: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Limón: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Allen: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Becker: yes
- Niello: other
- Jones: other
- Alvarado-Gil: other
- Choi: other
- Stern: other
- Seyarto: other
- Strickland: other
- Ochoa Bogh: other
- Grove: other
- Dahle: other
AB 15 Gipson Concurrence in Senate Amendments
2025-09-09 · pass · 72-0
Member-level votes (80)
- Ahrens: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Addis: yes
- Ward: yes
- Haney: yes
- Hart: yes
- Fong: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Bains: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Soria: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Berman: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Papan: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Lee: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Ta: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Solache: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Davies: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Krell: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Patel: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Flora: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Johnson: other
- Dixon: other
- Hadwick: other
- Irwin: other
- Tangipa: other
- Chen: other
- Castillo: other
- Macedo: other

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