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Bill	Civil actions.	(1) Existing law permits a court, on its own motion or the motion of any party, to enter a prefiling order prohibiting a vexatious litigant from filing any new litigation in propria persona without first obtaining leave of the presiding judge of the court where the litigation is proposed to be filed. Existing law permits a presiding judge to allow a vexatious litigant's filing only under specified circumstances, and permits the presiding judge to condition the filing upon the furnishing of security. Existing law prohibits a clerk of a court from filing any litigation presented by a vexatious litigant subject to a prefiling order unless the vexatious litigant first obtains an order permitting the filing and provides a process for staying and dismissing litigation by a vexatious litigant if the clerk mistakenly accepts it.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	SB 731	California SB 731 (20112012)	bill	Civil actions.	enacted	Committee on Judiciary	5	16	4	2011-02-18	2011-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/a3d7595f-a50d-4de4-9d94-c452b97561d9	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB731	59544d661f17914342ee8fa0b3909abd63cb13f3c6de83e9843868514bf0125e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 731 (20112012) — Civil actions.

(1) Existing law permits a court, on its own motion or the motion of any party, to enter a prefiling order prohibiting a vexatious litigant from filing any new litigation in propria persona without first obtaining leave of the presiding judge of the court where the litigation is proposed to be filed. Existing law permits a presiding judge to allow a vexatious litigant's filing only under specified circumstances, and permits the presiding judge to condition the filing upon the furnishing of security. Existing law prohibits a clerk of a court from filing any litigation presented by a vexatious litigant subject to a prefiling order unless the vexatious litigant first obtains an order permitting the filing and provides a process for staying and dismissing litigation by a vexatious litigant if the clerk mistakenly accepts it.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/29/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/01/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. SB731 (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/21/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Consent Calendar 2nd SB731 Committee on Jud. — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 731 JUD. Consent Calendar Second Day — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. — 4–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Committee on Judiciary — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-18 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2011-02-19 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 21.
• 2011-03-03 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2011-03-11 Set for hearing March 22.
• 2011-03-25 From committee: Do pass as amended. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 416.) (March 22). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-03-29 Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-03-31 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 499.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-03-31 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2011-04-28 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2011-06-14 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 14). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-06-15 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-06-20 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1998.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-06-20 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2011-06-22 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2011-06-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-07-01 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 49, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a3d7595f-a50d-4de4-9d94-c452b97561d9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).