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Bill	Civil procedure: depositions.	Existing law authorizes the use of depositions in discovery in civil actions. Any party to a civil action may take an oral deposition of any person, including other parties to the action, following service of a deposition notice notifying the deponent of the date, location, and time of the deposition, as well as any materials to be produced by the deponent.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 1875	California AB 1875 (20112012)	bill	Civil procedure: depositions.	enacted	Gatto	10	33	5	2012-02-22	2012-09-17	openstates	ocd-bill/ca4ec1f3-452a-4c39-a5e4-8c6574f66e79	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1875	49bd2ef99fb14366d06c16f6c06e5efc05dafab88218689267f0e6020b21d674	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1875 (20112012) — Civil procedure: depositions.

Existing law authorizes the use of depositions in discovery in civil actions. Any party to a civil action may take an oral deposition of any person, including other parties to the action, following service of a deposition notice notifying the deponent of the date, location, and time of the deposition, as well as any materials to be produced by the deponent.

Version chain

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

1. 02/22/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/24/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/07/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/30/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/25/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/14/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/22/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/17/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB1875 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/11/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 3–1 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1875 Gatto By Lieu — 24–14 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 7–3 (pass) · lower
• AB 1875 GATTO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 52–27 (pass) · lower
• AB 1875 GATTO Assembly Third Reading — 50–24 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Gatto — primary (person)
• Ammiano — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-22 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2012-02-23 From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
• 2012-03-05 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2012-04-10 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2012-04-17 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2012-04-24 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-04-25 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2012-05-03 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 3.) (May 1). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-07 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-05-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-14 Ordered to inactive file at the request of Assembly Member Gatto.
• 2012-05-25 Notice of intention to remove from inactive file given by Assembly Member Gatto.
• 2012-05-29 From inactive file.
• 2012-05-29 Ordered to third reading.
• 2012-05-30 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 5138.) reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-05-31 Assembly Rule 69(d) suspended. (Page 5176.)
• 2012-05-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 50. Noes 24. Page 5194.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-06-04 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-06-14 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2012-06-25 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
• 2012-07-05 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 3. Noes 1.) (July 3). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-07-06 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-14 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-22 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 24. Noes 14. Page 4872.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-28 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-08-29 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6488.)
• 2012-08-29 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 52. Noes 27. Page 6574.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-09-12 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:40 p.m.
• 2012-09-17 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-17 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 346, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ca4ec1f3-452a-4c39-a5e4-8c6574f66e79. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).