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Bill	Courts: electronic filing and service of documents.	Existing law authorizes a trial court to adopt local rules permitting electronic filing and service of documents, subject to rules adopted by the Judicial Council and other specified conditions. Existing law also authorizes the court, in any action in which a party has agreed to accept electronic service, or in which the court has ordered electronic service, as specified, to electronically serve any document issued by the court that is not required to be personally served, in the same manner that parties electronically serve documents.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 2073	California AB 2073 (20112012)	bill	Courts: electronic filing and service of documents.	enacted	Silva	7	23	8	2012-02-23	2012-09-14	openstates	ocd-bill/2deb26be-2ba9-4c20-8246-ba46ded3a5f2	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2073	fef2edce76e6cbefa2b479975ba9cdd221a81b90b40ae01e2dc4f3e0dccff1df	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2073 (20112012) — Courts: electronic filing and service of documents.

Existing law authorizes a trial court to adopt local rules permitting electronic filing and service of documents, subject to rules adopted by the Judicial Council and other specified conditions. Existing law also authorizes the court, in any action in which a party has agreed to accept electronic service, or in which the court has ordered electronic service, as specified, to electronically serve any document issued by the court that is not required to be personally served, in the same manner that parties electronically serve documents.

Version chain

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

1. 02/23/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/30/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/26/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/21/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/14/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB2073 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/31/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2073 Silva By Harman — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2073 SILVA Consent Calendar Second Day — 70–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2073 SILVA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Silva — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-23 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2012-02-24 From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
• 2012-03-08 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2012-04-10 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2012-04-26 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 24). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-04-30 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-05-01 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2012-05-16 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 16). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-17 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 4985.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-05-25 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-06-07 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2012-06-25 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 19). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-06-26 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-08-06 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2012-08-20 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-21 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 4707.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-22 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-08-27 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6312.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-09-06 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5:45 p.m.
• 2012-09-14 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-14 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 320, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2deb26be-2ba9-4c20-8246-ba46ded3a5f2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).