---
type: "Bill"
title: "Jury service."
description: "The Trial Jury Selection and Management Act prohibits persons who have been convicted of malfeasance in office or a felony, and whose civil rights have not been restored, from being eligible and qualified to be a prospective trial juror."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "SB 310"
citation: "California SB 310 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Jury service."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Skinner"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 34
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2019-02-15"
last_action: "2019-10-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/901dfbe6-8a32-4339-83c8-c1c176753c22"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB310"
source_hash: "2046d2249b5251bd505f02b1611a029787b402d1bbac62b644d606c430b0a73c"
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 310 (20192020) — Jury service.

The Trial Jury Selection and Management Act prohibits persons who have been convicted of malfeasance in office or a felony, and whose civil rights have not been restored, from being eligible and qualified to be a prospective trial juror.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/15/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB310&version=20190SB31099INT)
2. **03/21/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB310&version=20190SB31098AMD)
3. **04/29/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB310&version=20190SB31097AMD)
4. **05/17/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB310&version=20190SB31096AMD)
5. **08/13/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB310&version=20190SB31095AMD)
6. **08/26/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB310&version=20190SB31094AMD)
7. **10/08/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB310&version=20190SB31092CHP)
8. **SB310** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB310)
9. **09/13/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB310&version=20190SB31093ENR)

## Votes

- Placed on suspense file — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **10–5** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB310 Skinner Concurrence — **29–10** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **4–2** (pass) · upper
- SB 310 Skinner Senate Third Reading By Kalra — **47–26** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **5–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–2** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading — **27–10** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Skinner — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-15** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-02-19** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 21.
- **2019-02-28** Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-12** Set for hearing April 2.
- **2019-03-21** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-02** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 526.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-04** Set for hearing April 30.
- **2019-04-04** April 30 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2019-04-05** Set for hearing April 23.
- **2019-04-25** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 798.) (April 23). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2019-04-29** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-05-03** Set for hearing May 13.
- **2019-05-13** May 13 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2019-05-14** Set for hearing May 16.
- **2019-05-17** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 4. Noes 2. Page 1096.) (May 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2019-05-17** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-28** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 27. Noes 10. Page 1323.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-28** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2019-06-06** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-18** June 18 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2019-06-25** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-07-03** July 3 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2019-08-13** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-08-21** August 21 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2019-08-26** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-08-28** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 5.) (August 28). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-08-29** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-09-09** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 47. Noes 26. Page 3195.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-09** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2019-09-11** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 29. Noes 10. Page 2834.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-09-19** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2019-10-08** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-10-08** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 591, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/901dfbe6-8a32-4339-83c8-c1c176753c22`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).