republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/sb-1087.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Evidence: production of business records."
description: "Existing law provides that when a subpoena duces tecum is served upon the custodian of records or other qualified witness of a business in a criminal action in which the business is neither a party nor the place where any cause of action is alleged to have arisen, and the subpoena requires the production of all or any part of the records of the business, it is sufficient compliance therewith if the custodian or other qualified witness, within 5 days after the receipt of the subpoena or within a time otherwise agreed upon, delivers a copy of all the records described in the subpoena to the clerk of the court, the judge, or another person, as specified. Existing law requires that the records be accompanied with an affidavit from the custodian attesting to specified information."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "SB 1087"
citation: "California SB 1087 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Evidence: production of business records."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Anderson"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2016-02-17"
last_action: "2016-07-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eb471f8a-0fc3-4dc8-a0d7-38a28abd39a2"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1087"
source_hash: "a153fe70cc0945b3cf5c3a5975ea6e943860083856ffbc99eef8297cc2f7aa79"
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 1087 (20152016) — Evidence: production of business records.

Existing law provides that when a subpoena duces tecum is served upon the custodian of records or other qualified witness of a business in a criminal action in which the business is neither a party nor the place where any cause of action is alleged to have arisen, and the subpoena requires the production of all or any part of the records of the business, it is sufficient compliance therewith if the custodian or other qualified witness, within 5 days after the receipt of the subpoena or within a time otherwise agreed upon, delivers a copy of all the records described in the subpoena to the clerk of the court, the judge, or another person, as specified. Existing law requires that the records be accompanied with an affidavit from the custodian attesting to specified information.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/17/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1087&version=20150SB108799INT)
2. **04/19/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1087&version=20150SB108798AMD)
3. **05/26/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1087&version=20150SB108797AMD)
4. **07/22/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1087&version=20150SB108795CHP)
5. **SB1087** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1087)
6. **07/05/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1087&version=20150SB108796ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended, and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Special Consent # — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 1087 Anderson Consent Calendar Second Day — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Anderson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-02-17** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2016-02-18** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
- **2016-02-25** Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-15** Set for hearing March 29.
- **2016-03-29** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3314.) (March 29). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-04-01** Set for hearing April 12.
- **2016-04-18** From committee: Do pass as amended. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 3520.) (April 12). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-04-19** Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-04-21** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 3631.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-04-21** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2016-05-05** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2016-05-26** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-06-09** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 8). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-06-13** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-06-16** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 5402.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-06-16** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2016-06-22** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2016-06-30** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4653.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2016-07-13** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2016-07-22** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-07-22** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 85, Statutes of 2016.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eb471f8a-0fc3-4dc8-a0d7-38a28abd39a2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).