republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20092010/ab-1894.md

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Bill	Judges: disqualification.	Existing law authorizes a party or attorney in an action or proceeding to move to disqualify a judge, court commissioner, or referee for prejudice against a party or attorney or the interest of a party or attorney, as specified. Prejudice may be established by an oral or written motion without notice supported by affidavit or declaration under penalty of perjury, or an oral statement under oath, that the judge, court commissioner, or referee is prejudiced against a party or attorney, or the interest of the party or attorney, so that the party or attorney cannot, or believes that he or she cannot, have a fair and impartial trial or hearing. Existing law specifies the period during which the motion is required to be made for specified trials and hearings, including, for the trial of a cause that has been assigned to a judge for all purposes, the motion shall be made to the assigned judge or to the presiding judge by a party within 10 days after notice of the all purpose assignment, or if the party has not yet appeared in the action, then within 10 days after the appearance.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 1894	California AB 1894 (20092010)	bill	Judges: disqualification.	enacted	Monning	7	20	5	2010-02-16	2010-08-13	openstates	ocd-bill/87daf8f6-b72d-4dc7-bc16-7de81e3ea004	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1894	34f9cf72ace702bc28d2dbb8eef216a13956f61ae54844d9c753b14cab018980	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1894 (20092010) — Judges: disqualification.

Existing law authorizes a party or attorney in an action or proceeding to move to disqualify a judge, court commissioner, or referee for prejudice against a party or attorney or the interest of a party or attorney, as specified. Prejudice may be established by an oral or written motion without notice supported by affidavit or declaration under penalty of perjury, or an oral statement under oath, that the judge, court commissioner, or referee is prejudiced against a party or attorney, or the interest of the party or attorney, so that the party or attorney cannot, or believes that he or she cannot, have a fair and impartial trial or hearing. Existing law specifies the period during which the motion is required to be made for specified trials and hearings, including, for the trial of a cause that has been assigned to a judge for all purposes, the motion shall be made to the assigned judge or to the presiding judge by a party within 10 days after notice of the all purpose assignment, or if the party has not yet appeared in the action, then within 10 days after the appearance.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/10 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/07/10 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/15/10 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/10/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/13/10 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1894 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/04/10 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1894 MONNING Assembly Third Reading — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, to Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 1894 MONNING Concurrence in Senate Amendments — pass (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar 2nd AB1894 Monning — pass (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Monning — 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.
• 2010-02-25 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2010-04-06 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (April 6). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2010-04-07 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-04-08 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-04-15 Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. (Page 4685.). reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2010-04-22 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 4791.) 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
• 2010-06-10 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2010-06-10 (Corrected June 14.)
• 2010-06-23 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (June 22). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2010-06-24 Read second time. To Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-07-01 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 4199.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2010-07-01 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 8 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2010-08-02 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 5992.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2010-08-06 Enrolled and to the Governor at 4:15 p.m.
• 2010-08-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2010-08-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 131, Statutes of 2010.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/87daf8f6-b72d-4dc7-bc16-7de81e3ea004. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).