---
type: "Bill"
title: "Marriage: solemnization."
description: "Existing law enumerates persons who are authorized to solemnize a marriage, including judges and retired judges. Existing law prohibits a judge, elected official, or city clerk from accepting compensation for solemnizing a marriage. Existing law makes it a misdemeanor for a judge, justice, commissioner, or assistant commissioner of a court of this state to accept money or another thing of value for performing a marriage, but excepts the acceptance of a fee to perform a marriage on Saturday, Sunday, or a legal holiday."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 430"
citation: "California AB 430 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Marriage: solemnization."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Irwin"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-02-13"
last_action: "2017-07-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6fefcfd1-68da-4311-bf6a-7d1e80917c53"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB430"
source_hash: "7d53217947226babf4df085d27ee1a5b5b9db46e11d7969b03c62deffd28eea6"
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 430 (20172018) — Marriage: solemnization.

Existing law enumerates persons who are authorized to solemnize a marriage, including judges and retired judges. Existing law prohibits a judge, elected official, or city clerk from accepting compensation for solemnizing a marriage. Existing law makes it a misdemeanor for a judge, justice, commissioner, or assistant commissioner of a court of this state to accept money or another thing of value for performing a marriage, but excepts the acceptance of a fee to perform a marriage on Saturday, Sunday, or a legal holiday.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/13/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB430&version=20170AB43099INT)
2. **03/28/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB430&version=20170AB43098AMD)
3. **07/10/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB430&version=20170AB43096CHP)
4. **AB430** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB430)
5. **06/21/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB430&version=20170AB43097ENR)

## Sponsors

- Irwin — primary (person)
- Low — author (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-13** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2017-02-14** From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
- **2017-02-21** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-27** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (March 21). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2017-03-28** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
- **2017-03-29** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-04-03** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 874.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-04-03** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2017-05-10** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-13** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 13). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-06-14** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-06-19** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 1612.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-06-20** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2017-06-26** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
- **2017-07-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-07-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 42, Statutes of 2017.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6fefcfd1-68da-4311-bf6a-7d1e80917c53`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).