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Bill	Trial courts: restructuring and bail forfeiture.	Existing law provides for the restructuring of the trial court system, including the abolition of municipal courts, the unification of those courts with superior courts, and state funding of trial courts. Under existing law, a statutory reference to a judicial district that relates to a municipal court in a county in which unification has occurred generally means the county, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 1529	California AB 1529 (20112012)	bill	Trial courts: restructuring and bail forfeiture.	enacted	Dickinson	6	22	6	2012-01-23	2012-09-23	openstates	ocd-bill/9fb377a0-9307-4e00-95db-7b024f212465	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1529	b3124e722c1d476e7a7a7696a3ac8a59cdbb8d1d84b159184122ec9406795887	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1529 (20112012) — Trial courts: restructuring and bail forfeiture.

Existing law provides for the restructuring of the trial court system, including the abolition of municipal courts, the unification of those courts with superior courts, and state funding of trial courts. Under existing law, a statutory reference to a judicial district that relates to a municipal court in a county in which unification has occurred generally means the county, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 01/23/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/21/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/03/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/23/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB1529 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/29/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Public Safety Recommend Consent. — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Amend, and do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Public Safety with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent #16 — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1529 DICKINSON Consent Calendar Second Day — 76–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dickinson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-01-23 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2012-01-24 From printer. May be heard in committee February 23.
• 2012-02-09 Referred to Coms. on JUD. and PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2012-03-20 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (March 20). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-03-21 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-03-22 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2012-05-03 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-05-07 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2012-05-08 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (May 8). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-09 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-14 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 4830.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-05-14 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-05-24 Referred to Coms. on JUD. and PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2012-06-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-07-05 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 3). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-07-06 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-15 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2012-08-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4781.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-24 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2012-08-31 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2012-09-23 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-23 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 470, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9fb377a0-9307-4e00-95db-7b024f212465. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).