republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20092010/ab-316.md

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Bill	Wrongful convictions.	Existing law requires that an action against an attorney for a wrongful act or omission, other than for actual fraud, arising in the performance of professional services must be commenced within one year after the plaintiff discovers, or should have discovered, the wrongful act or omission, or 4 years from the date of the wrongful act or omission, whichever occurs first.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 316	California AB 316 (20092010)	bill	Wrongful convictions.	enacted	Solorio	6	23	8	2009-02-18	2009-10-11	openstates	ocd-bill/75c1af29-09b8-4523-be65-175f936a3126	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB316	e39733d523f5356d56682cc342812b60e466feb29e98a7ab5aaf0583f00973ce	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 316 (20092010) — Wrongful convictions.

Existing law requires that an action against an attorney for a wrongful act or omission, other than for actual fraud, arising in the performance of professional services must be commenced within one year after the plaintiff discovers, or should have discovered, the wrongful act or omission, or 4 years from the date of the wrongful act or omission, whichever occurs first.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/09 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/16/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/28/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/11/09 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB316 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/16/09 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 316 SOLORIO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — pass (pass) · upper
• AB 316 SOLORIO Assembly Third Reading — pass (pass) · lower
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · upper
• Assembly 3rd Reading AB316 Solorio By Wright — pass (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Solorio — primary (person)
• Leno — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2009-02-18 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2009-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2009-03-04 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2009-04-01 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 31). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-04-23 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2009-05-29 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 28). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-05-29 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-06-01 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1836.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-06-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2009-06-11 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2009-06-16 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2009-06-26 From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 23). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-06-28 Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-07-13 In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
• 2009-08-31 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 5.) (August 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-08-31 (received by desk August 28, 2009 pursuant to JR61(a)(11))
• 2009-09-01 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-09-08 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 4. Page 2290.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-09-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2009-09-10 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3262.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2009-09-25 Enrolled and to the Governor at 5 p.m.
• 2009-10-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2009-10-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 432, Statutes of 2009.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/75c1af29-09b8-4523-be65-175f936a3126. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).