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Bill	Written agreements: exclusion of evidence.	Existing law provides that the terms set forth in a writing intended by the parties as a final expression of their agreement with respect to the terms may not be contradicted by evidence of any prior agreement or of a contemporaneous oral agreement. Existing law defines the term "agreement" to include deeds and wills, as well as contracts between parties.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 824	California AB 824 (20132014)	bill	Written agreements: exclusion of evidence.	enacted	Jones	4	15	4	2013-02-21	2013-08-12	openstates	ocd-bill/6ad2564c-9d5e-4e07-894d-fe18ebabe404	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB824	7dc5c8450fd6988d4126d85fd4ed13ac0e317daa948a02fd94a4f6f134f84b62	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 824 (20132014) — Written agreements: exclusion of evidence.

Existing law provides that the terms set forth in a writing intended by the parties as a final expression of their agreement with respect to the terms may not be contradicted by evidence of any prior agreement or of a contemporaneous oral agreement. Existing law defines the term "agreement" to include deeds and wills, as well as contracts between parties.

Version chain

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

1. 02/21/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 08/12/13 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. AB824 (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/26/13 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar 2nd — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 824 JONES Consent Calendar Second Day — 75–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jones — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-21 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2013-02-22 From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
• 2013-03-04 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2013-05-07 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (May 7). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-05-08 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-05-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1409.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-05-13 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2013-05-23 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2013-06-11 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 11). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-06-12 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-06-24 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1488.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-06-24 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2013-08-01 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:45 p.m.
• 2013-08-12 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2013-08-12 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 81, Statutes of 2013.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6ad2564c-9d5e-4e07-894d-fe18ebabe404. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).