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type: "Bill"
title: "Official record of conviction: admissibility of electronically digitized copy."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "SB 378"
citation: "California SB 378 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Official record of conviction: admissibility of electronically digitized copy."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Block"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 26
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2013-02-20"
last_action: "2013-08-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/30891e18-a7ac-4316-9fcd-f4ebfcd43ce0"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB378"
source_hash: "e9a3e4e8f40166b5f34d04e9ce2cff89e268a45c45a10cafd36bc696d26e40cf"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---
# 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.
1. **02/20/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB378&version=20130SB37899INT)
2. **04/02/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB378&version=20130SB37898AMD)
3. **08/26/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB378&version=20130SB37896CHP)
4. **SB378** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB378)
5. **08/13/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB378&version=20130SB37897ENR)
## Votes
- SB 378 Block Consent Calendar Second Day — **770** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent #2**370** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Judiciary. — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **70** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **170** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/30891e18-a7ac-4316-9fcd-f4ebfcd43ce0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).