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Bill	Civil actions: objections to pleadings.	Under existing law, a party in a civil action may object to a complaint, cross-complaint, or answer by demurrer, as specified. Existing law authorizes a party to amend a pleading once without leave of the court at any time before an answer or demurrer is filed, or after a demurrer is filed and before the trial of the issue of law thereon.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	SB 383	California SB 383 (20152016)	bill	Civil actions: objections to pleadings.	enacted	Wieckowski	9	25	6	2015-02-24	2015-10-01	openstates	ocd-bill/42cdd277-2322-4d60-8a05-71ab0e526b6b	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB383	e5a370005e9412599253e6739e0638240ef898532fecbf9f484150ab55747738	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 383 (20152016) — Civil actions: objections to pleadings.

Under existing law, a party in a civil action may object to a complaint, cross-complaint, or answer by demurrer, as specified. Existing law authorizes a party to amend a pleading once without leave of the court at any time before an answer or demurrer is filed, or after a demurrer is filed and before the trial of the issue of law thereon.

Version chain

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

1. 02/24/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/06/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/19/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/09/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/17/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/02/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/01/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. SB383 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/09/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 14–2 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar 2nd — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 383 Wieckowski Senate Third Reading By BONTA — 49–20 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB383 Wieckowski Concurrence — 27–13 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Wieckowski — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-24 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2015-02-25 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 27.
• 2015-03-05 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2015-04-06 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-09 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2015-05-01 Set for hearing May 12.
• 2015-05-18 From committee: Do pass as amended. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 983.) (May 12). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-05-19 Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-05-22 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1072.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-05-22 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2015-06-04 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2015-07-09 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
• 2015-07-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-08-17 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2015-08-17 (Corrected August 17)
• 2015-08-19 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 2.) (August 19). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-02 Read third time and amended. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-02 Ordered to third reading.
• 2015-09-04 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 49. Noes 20. Page 2923.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-04 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2015-09-08 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 27. Noes 13. Page 2565.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
• 2015-10-01 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-10-01 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 418, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/42cdd277-2322-4d60-8a05-71ab0e526b6b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).