republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20012002/ab-1700.md

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Bill	Courts: civil actions.	Courts: civil actions.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20012002	AB 1700	California AB 1700 (20012002)	bill	Courts: civil actions.	enacted	Steinberg	9	24	10	2001-03-06	2001-10-13	openstates	ocd-bill/1c9b0c24-a372-43ab-9c77-1a004aca0864	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1700	71a7c04f594bfcb260bd0f127dce86e5ab2cda66fb86fd1c5851da3443913e97	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1700 (20012002) — Courts: civil actions.

Version chain

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

1. 03/06/01 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 07/02/01 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/31/01 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/07/01 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/13/01 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/14/01 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/13/01 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB1700 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/14/01 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — pass (pass) · upper
• W/O REF. TO FILE AB1700 Committee on Jud. (Steinberg) By Escutia — pass (pass) · upper
• AB 1700 JUD. Assembly Third Reading By Steinberg — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — pass (pass) · upper
• AB 1700 Steinberg Concurrence in Senate Amendments — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — pass (pass) · upper
• Assembly 3rd Reading AB1700 Committee on Jud. (Steinberg) By Escutia — pass (pass) · upper
• Assembly 3rd Reading AB1700 Committee on Jud. (Steinberg) Reconsider — pass (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Steinberg — primary (person)
• Frommer — author (person)
• Monteith — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2001-10-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 824, Statutes of 2001.
• 2001-10-12 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2001-10-02 Enrolled and to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2001-09-14 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 49. Noes 23. Page 4039.) committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2001-09-14 In Senate. Held at Desk. Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, passed, and to Assembly. Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 3015.) reading-1, reading-3, passage, amendment-passage
• 2001-09-14 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Ordered returned to Senate.
• 2001-09-14 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2957.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2001-09-13 Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-3
• 2001-09-07 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.). Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2001-08-31 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. reading-1, referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2001-08-21 In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
• 2001-07-16 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.). committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2001-07-02 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. reading-1, referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2001-06-12 Referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. referral-committee
• 2001-06-05 In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. reading-1
• 2001-06-04 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2056.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2001-05-31 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 21. Noes 0.) (May 31). Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, committee-passage-favorable, reading-1, committee-passage
• 2001-05-29 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice waived. (Page 1856.)
• 2001-05-02 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations suspense file. referral-committee
• 2001-04-17 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 17). committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2001-04-16 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice waived. (Page 1005.)
• 2001-03-21 Referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. referral-committee
• 2001-03-07 From printer. May be heard in committee April 6.
• 2001-03-06 Read first time. To print. reading-1

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1c9b0c24-a372-43ab-9c77-1a004aca0864. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).