Official record of conviction: admissibility of electronically digitized copy.
Existing law provides that evidence of a writing made as a record of an act, condition, or event is not made inadmissible by the hearsay rule when offered in any civil or criminal proceeding to prove the act, condition, or event if specified conditions apply. Existing law provides that an official record of conviction certified under a specified statute is admissible under this hearsay exception to prove the commission, attempted commission, or solicitation of a criminal offense, prior conviction, service of a prison term, or other act, condition, or event recorded by the record.
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20132014
SB 378
California SB 378 (20132014)
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Official record of conviction: admissibility of electronically digitized copy.
California SB 378 (20132014) — Official record of conviction: admissibility of electronically digitized copy.
Existing law provides that evidence of a writing made as a record of an act, condition, or event is not made inadmissible by the hearsay rule when offered in any civil or criminal proceeding to prove the act, condition, or event if specified conditions apply. Existing law provides that an official record of conviction certified under a specified statute is admissible under this hearsay exception to prove the commission, attempted commission, or solicitation of a criminal offense, prior conviction, service of a prison term, or other act, condition, or event recorded by the record.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
SB 378 Block Consent Calendar Second Day — 77–0 (pass) · lower
Special Consent #2 — 37–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Judiciary. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — 7–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
Block — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2013-02-20 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. reading-1, introduction
2013-02-21 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
2013-02-28 Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and JUD. referral-committee
2013-03-13 Set for hearing April 2.
2013-03-27 Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
2013-04-02 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
2013-04-03 Set for hearing April 9.
2013-04-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 468.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
2013-04-10 Withdrawn from committee.
2013-04-10 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
2013-04-11 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
2013-04-12 Set for hearing April 22.
2013-04-22 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
2013-04-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2013-04-24 Ordered to special consent calendar.
2013-04-29 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 712.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
2013-04-29 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2013-05-16 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
2013-06-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
2013-07-03 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (July 3). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2013-08-05 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
2013-08-08 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2484.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
2013-08-12 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
2013-08-15 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:45 a.m.
2013-08-26 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2013-08-26 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 150, Statutes of 2013.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/30891e18-a7ac-4316-9fcd-f4ebfcd43ce0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).