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 07/16/25 - Amended Senate
 05/23/25 - Amended Assembly
 02/24/25 - Amended Assembly
 12/02/24 - Introduced

 AB-15 Open unsolved homicide: review and reinvestigation.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 09/11/2025 02:00 PM

AB15:v95#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Enrolled
 September 11, 2025

 Passed
 IN 
 Senate
 September 08, 2025

 Passed
 IN 
 Assembly
 September 09, 2025

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 July 16, 2025

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 May 23, 2025

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 February 24, 2025

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 15

Introduced by Assembly Member Gipson
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Alvarez, Bonta, Connolly, Kalra, Lee, and Ortega)

December 02, 2024

An act to add Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 11483) to Title 1 of Part 4 of the Penal Code, relating to crimes.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 15, Gipson.
 Open unsolved homicide: review and reinvestigation.

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.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 YES 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 11483) is added to Title 1 of Part 4 of the Penal Code, to read:

 CHAPTER
 4. California Homicide Victims’ Families’ Rights Act 

11483.

 This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the California Homicide Victims’ Families’ Rights Act.

11484.

 As used in this chapter, the following definitions apply:

(a) “Agency” means a law enforcement entity in California.

(b) “Applicable agency” means a law enforcement agency that is investigating or has investigated the homicide of the victim.

(c) “Designated person” means an immediate family
 member, or their designated legal representative, who is a member in good standing with the State Bar of California.

(d) “Homicide” means a killing described in Section 187, 189, 191.5, 192, or 192.5.

(e) “Immediate family member” means a parent, parent-in-law, legal guardian, grandparent, grandparent-in-law,
 sibling, spouse, domestic partner, child, or stepchild of a
 homicide victim or any person who exercised in loco parentis control over a victim under 18 years of age.

(f) “Open unsolved homicide” means a homicide that meets all of the following requirements:

(1) The homicide was committed more than three years prior to the date of the application for a case review by a designated person under subdivision (c).

(2) The homicide was previously investigated by the applicable agency.

(3) All probative investigative leads have been exhausted