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Bill	Civil actions.	(1) Existing law requires a trial judge to examine prospective jurors, and, upon completion of the judge's examination, grants counsel for each party the right to examine, by oral and direct questioning, any prospective juror in order to enable counsel to intelligently exercise peremptory challenges and challenges for cause. Existing law requires the scope of examination conducted by counsel to be within the reasonable limits prescribed by the trial judge and prohibits the imposition of unreasonable or arbitrary time limits on the examination.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 1403	California AB 1403 (20112012)	bill	Civil actions.	enacted	Committee on Judiciary	8	24	6	2011-03-07	2011-10-02	openstates	ocd-bill/f8e15611-1df2-476c-91c6-868c5fbd8fc3	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1403	ebfe66366ac1c583920bac3a3568aedf4267f225a997c3d48893906402520a22	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1403 (20112012) — Civil actions.

(1) Existing law requires a trial judge to examine prospective jurors, and, upon completion of the judge's examination, grants counsel for each party the right to examine, by oral and direct questioning, any prospective juror in order to enable counsel to intelligently exercise peremptory challenges and challenges for cause. Existing law requires the scope of examination conducted by counsel to be within the reasonable limits prescribed by the trial judge and prohibits the imposition of unreasonable or arbitrary time limits on the examination.

Version chain

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

1. 03/07/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/10/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/23/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/12/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/02/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/02/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1403 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/20/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1403 JUD. Assembly Third Reading By FEUER — 73–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 1403 Judiciary Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 76–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1403 Committee on JUD. (Feuer) By Evans — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• From Committee: That the measure be returned to the Senate floor for consideration. — 4–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Committee on Judiciary — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-03-07 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2011-03-08 From printer. May be heard in committee April 7.
• 2011-03-21 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2011-05-09 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (May 3). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-10 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-05-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-05-19 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 1. Page 1466.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-05-19 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2011-06-02 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2011-06-23 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-07-11 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 5). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-07-12 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-02 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-06 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-09-06 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10. referral-committee
• 2011-09-06 From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on JUD. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2011-09-07 From committee: Return to Senate floor for consideration. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (September 7). committee-passage
• 2011-09-07 Ordered to third reading.
• 2011-09-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2389.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-09-08 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2011-09-08 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 1. Page 3141.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-22 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12:30 p.m.
• 2011-10-02 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-10-02 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 409, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f8e15611-1df2-476c-91c6-868c5fbd8fc3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).