---
type: "Bill"
title: "Civil procedure: electronic filing, trial delays, and remote depositions."
description: "(1) Existing law authorizes a trial court to adopt local rules permitting electronic filing of documents, subject to specified conditions. Existing law authorizes a court to require electronic filing and service in civil actions, subject to rules adopted by the Judicial Council permitting mandatory electronic filing and service in specified civil actions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "SB 1146"
citation: "California SB 1146 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Civil procedure: electronic filing", "trial delays", "and remote depositions."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Umberg"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 29
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2020-02-20"
last_action: "2020-09-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/27771174-f504-48c0-b083-059b1f51523f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1146"
source_hash: "7dbb2c9ad7a2e620af586818995ad0860e05c2450b69b85e470a8b93f61765d2"
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 SB 1146 (20192020) — Civil procedure: electronic filing, trial delays, and remote depositions.

(1) Existing law authorizes a trial court to adopt local rules permitting electronic filing of documents, subject to specified conditions. Existing law authorizes a court to require electronic filing and service in civil actions, subject to rules adopted by the Judicial Council permitting mandatory electronic filing and service in specified civil actions.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/20/20 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1146&version=20190SB114699INT)
2. **03/25/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1146&version=20190SB114698AMD)
3. **05/13/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1146&version=20190SB114697AMD)
4. **05/29/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1146&version=20190SB114696AMD)
5. **07/27/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1146&version=20190SB114695AMD)
6. **08/13/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1146&version=20190SB114694AMD)
7. **08/27/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1146&version=20190SB114693AMD)
8. **09/18/20 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1146&version=20190SB114691CHP)
9. **SB1146** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1146)
10. **09/04/20 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1146&version=20190SB114692ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB1146 Umberg Urgency Clause Concurrence — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 1146 Umberg Third Reading Urgency By Reyes — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **11–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Umberg — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-20** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2020-02-21** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
- **2020-03-05** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-25** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-05-11** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-13** Set for hearing May 22.
- **2020-05-13** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-05-28** From committee: Do pass as amended. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 3583.) (May 22). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2020-05-29** Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-06-11** From consent calendar on motion of Senator Jackson.
- **2020-06-11** Ordered to third reading.
- **2020-06-15** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 3713.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-06-16** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2020-06-29** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2020-07-09** July 22 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2020-07-27** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-07-27** July 30 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2020-08-12** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (August 12). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2020-08-13** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-08-17** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-08-27** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-08-27** Ordered to third reading.
- **2020-08-31** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5412.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-08-31** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2020-09-01** Urgency clause adopted.
- **2020-09-01** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 35. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-09-10** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2020-09-18** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2020-09-18** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 112, Statutes of 2020.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/27771174-f504-48c0-b083-059b1f51523f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).