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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Civil Actions: shorthand reporters."
+description: "Existing law requires that meet and confer notices with specified information be filed in support of specified motions."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20252026"
+identifier: "AB 711"
+citation: "California AB 711 (20252026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["CivilActions", "shorthandreporters"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Chen"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2025-02-14"
+last_action: "2025-07-28"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8d81dd39-749e-4171-a7cd-2114cb7d9933"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB711"
+source_hash: "e8f2055c408727c2cff808be0d6ffaa6d88089d8429cc48f43b398a444ad872f"
+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 711 (20252026) — Civil Actions: shorthand reporters.
+
+Existing law requires that meet and confer notices with specified information be filed in support of specified motions.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/14/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB711&version=20250AB71199INT)
+2. **05/06/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB711&version=20250AB71198AMD)
+3. **07/28/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB711&version=20250AB71196CHP)
+4. **AB711** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB711)
+5. **07/08/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB711&version=20250AB71197ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Consent Calendar 2nd — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **12–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass. — **12–0** (pass) · lower
+- AB 711 Chen Assembly Third Reading — **70–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Chen — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-15** From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
+- **2025-03-03** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-26** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (March 25). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-05-06** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2025-05-15** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 1554.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2025-05-15** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2025-05-28** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-25** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 24). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-06-26** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-07-03** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 1931.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2025-07-03** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
+- **2025-07-15** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
+- **2025-07-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2025-07-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 64, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8d81dd39-749e-4171-a7cd-2114cb7d9933`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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