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Bill	Trial courts: budget process: public notice.	Existing law requires a trial court to provide written notification to the public by conspicuous posting within or about its facilities, on its public Internet Web site, and to the Judicial Council, not less than 60 days prior to closing any courtroom, or closing or reducing the hours of clerks' offices during regular business hours on any day, except as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 973	California AB 973 (20112012)	bill	Trial courts: budget process: public notice.	enacted	Campos	8	24	8	2011-02-18	2011-10-09	openstates	ocd-bill/21853088-9580-4bb6-aec0-e7ff64c95d98	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB973	0b94692493a85f54c15ade5db565e291a1aced1cf91525532590a66a6591b40d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 973 (20112012) — Trial courts: budget process: public notice.

Existing law requires a trial court to provide written notification to the public by conspicuous posting within or about its facilities, on its public Internet Web site, and to the Judicial Council, not less than 60 days prior to closing any courtroom, or closing or reducing the hours of clerks' offices during regular business hours on any day, except as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/07/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/27/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/27/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/30/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/09/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB973 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/09/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 973 CAMPOS Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 54–24 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 12–5 (pass) · lower
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 973 CAMPOS Assembly Third Reading — 51–24 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 7–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 8–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB973 Campos By Price — 32–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Campos — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-18 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2011-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2011-03-10 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2011-04-07 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
• 2011-04-11 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2011-04-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (April 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-04 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2011-05-27 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 27). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-27 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-05-31 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-06-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 51. Noes 24. Page 1748.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-06-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2011-06-08 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2011-06-23 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 21). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-06-27 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-07-11 In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2011-08-29 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (August 25). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-08-30 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-08-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 2. Page 2197.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-09-01 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 3 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2011-09-06 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 54. Noes 24. Page 2916.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-16 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
• 2011-10-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-10-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 687, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/21853088-9580-4bb6-aec0-e7ff64c95d98. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).