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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Evidence: judicial notice: official records of conviction."
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description: "Existing law authorizes judicial notice to be taken of certain matters, including the official acts of state and federal legislative, executive, and judicial departments and the records of any state or federal court. Existing law provides that a certified official record of conviction, or an electronically digitized copy of that record, is admissible to prove, among other things, the act, condition, or event recorded by the record. Existing law defines \"electronically digitized copy\" as a copy (1) made by scanning, photographing, or otherwise exactly reproducing a document, (2) stored or maintained in a digitized format, and (3) bearing an electronic signature or watermark unique to the entity responsible for certifying the document."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20152016"
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identifier: "AB 1867"
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citation: "California AB 1867 (20152016)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Evidence: judicial notice: official records of conviction."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Steinorth"]
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version_count: 5
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action_count: 17
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vote_count: 4
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first_action: "2016-02-10"
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last_action: "2016-08-17"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/80d49819-5eaa-422c-9e5e-96eaf9812be3"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1867"
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source_hash: "36e3a0552170699fa96318e95ecebe9ad223f7638da2ac44d28717c2c5774f55"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 1867 (20152016) — Evidence: judicial notice: official records of conviction.
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Existing law authorizes judicial notice to be taken of certain matters, including the official acts of state and federal legislative, executive, and judicial departments and the records of any state or federal court. Existing law provides that a certified official record of conviction, or an electronically digitized copy of that record, is admissible to prove, among other things, the act, condition, or event recorded by the record. Existing law defines "electronically digitized copy" as a copy (1) made by scanning, photographing, or otherwise exactly reproducing a document, (2) stored or maintained in a digitized format, and (3) bearing an electronic signature or watermark unique to the entity responsible for certifying the document.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/10/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1867&version=20150AB186799INT)
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2. **03/31/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1867&version=20150AB186798AMD)
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3. **08/17/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1867&version=20150AB186796CHP)
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4. **AB1867** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1867)
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5. **08/03/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1867&version=20150AB186797ENR)
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## Votes
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- AB 1867 STEINORTH Assembly Third Reading — **77–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass as amended. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
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- 3rd Reading AB1867 Steinorth By Moorlach — **39–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Steinorth — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2016-02-10** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2016-02-11** From printer. May be heard in committee March 12.
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- **2016-02-25** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
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- **2016-03-10** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
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- **2016-03-30** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (March 29). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
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- **2016-03-31** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2016-04-04** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2016-04-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 4260.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2016-04-11** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2016-04-28** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
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- **2016-06-15** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2016-06-16** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2016-08-01** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4728.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2016-08-02** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
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- **2016-08-05** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
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- **2016-08-17** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2016-08-17** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 126, Statutes of 2016.
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/80d49819-5eaa-422c-9e5e-96eaf9812be3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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