---
type: "Bill"
title: "Court records: preservation guidelines."
description: "Existing law provides that court records may be preserved in any form, including electronic forms, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 1926"
citation: "California AB 1926 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Court records: preservation guidelines."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Evans"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2010-02-16"
last_action: "2010-08-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f77f3eb9-f41c-43f3-957f-491636f217eb"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1926"
source_hash: "42152ab8d00c574f1335dd8c48f79adb65604ea3376875f61df9c3126d3679e5"
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 1926 (20092010) — Court records: preservation guidelines.

Existing law provides that court records may be preserved in any form, including electronic forms, as specified.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/16/10 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1926&version=20090AB192699INT)
2. **03/18/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1926&version=20090AB192698AMD)
3. **04/06/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1926&version=20090AB192697AMD)
4. **08/23/10 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1926&version=20090AB192695CHP)
5. **AB1926** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1926)
6. **08/06/10 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1926&version=20090AB192696ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 1926 EVANS Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd AB1926 Evans — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Evans — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2010-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2010-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
- **2010-03-04** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2010-03-18** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2010-03-22** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2010-04-05** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (March 23). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2010-04-06** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-04-07** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2010-04-14** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (April 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-04-15** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-04-22** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 4819.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-04-22** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2010-05-06** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2010-06-30** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 29). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-08-02** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2010-08-03** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-08-05** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 4374.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-08-05** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2010-08-09** Enrolled and to the Governor at 4:50 p.m.
- **2010-08-23** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2010-08-23** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 167, Statutes of 2010.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f77f3eb9-f41c-43f3-957f-491636f217eb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).