republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/sb-545.md

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California SB 545 (20132014) — Name change: minors.

Existing law provides that if a petition for a change of name alleges a specified reason or circumstance and the petitioner is a participant in a specified address confidentiality program, the action for a change of name is exempt from the publication requirement.

Version chain

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

1. 02/22/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/06/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 01/22/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/01/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/25/14 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB545 (committee substitute) — source
7. 06/18/14 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• SB 545 Anderson Consent Calendar Second Day — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 33–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Anderson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-22 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2013-02-24 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 26.
• 2013-02-25 Read first time. reading-1
• 2013-03-11 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2013-04-01 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-04-26 Set for hearing May 7.
• 2013-05-07 Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2013-12-19 Set for hearing January 14.
• 2014-01-06 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-01-21 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 2599.) (January 14). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-01-22 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-01-23 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 2638.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-01-23 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2014-04-24 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2014-06-10 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 10). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2014-06-11 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-06-16 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 5547.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-06-16 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2014-06-24 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
• 2014-06-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2014-06-25 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 49, Statutes of 2014.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c3dc1f06-6464-400d-adf1-adc4489d277d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).