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Bill	Civil procedure: service and fees: sheriffs.	(1) In an action against a sheriff, existing law provides that any person who is a citizen of the United States over the age of 18 years is authorized to serve all process and orders in that action, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 2256	California AB 2256 (20132014)	bill	Civil procedure: service and fees: sheriffs.	enacted	Garcia	8	22	5	2014-02-21	2014-09-19	openstates	ocd-bill/110e365c-3a6c-4248-a443-c6614d15db22	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2256	7b06a25521d74f4d3cdf1847b14e415b013d81f9d3add9b37ba87c851109fa5b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2256 (20132014) — Civil procedure: service and fees: sheriffs.

(1) In an action against a sheriff, existing law provides that any person who is a citizen of the United States over the age of 18 years is authorized to serve all process and orders in that action, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/21/14 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/18/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/28/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/29/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/16/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/19/14 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2256 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/20/14 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB2256 Garcia By Lara — 30–4 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 6–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 7–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 2256 GARCIA Assembly Third Reading — 52–11 (pass) · lower
• AB 2256 GARCIA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 54–13 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Garcia — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-02-21 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2014-02-23 From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
• 2014-02-24 Read first time. reading-1
• 2014-03-06 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2014-03-18 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-03-19 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2014-03-20 Measure version as amended on March 18 corrected. amendment-passage
• 2014-03-27 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (March 25). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-03-28 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-04-01 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-04-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 52. Noes 11. Page 4331.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-04-03 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2014-04-22 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2014-05-29 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-06-15 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (June 10). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-06-16 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-14 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 4. Page 4493.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-08-14 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 16 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2014-08-18 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 54. Noes 13. Page 6113.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-28 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2014-09-19 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2014-09-19 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 470, Statutes of 2014.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/110e365c-3a6c-4248-a443-c6614d15db22. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).