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type: "Bill"
title: "Civil actions: objections to pleadings."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "SB 383"
citation: "California SB 383 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Civil actions: objections to pleadings."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wieckowski"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 25
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2015-02-24"
last_action: "2015-10-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/42cdd277-2322-4d60-8a05-71ab0e526b6b"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB383"
source_hash: "e5a370005e9412599253e6739e0638240ef898532fecbf9f484150ab55747738"
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 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](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB383&version=20150SB38399INT)
2. **04/06/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB383&version=20150SB38398AMD)
3. **05/19/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB383&version=20150SB38397AMD)
4. **07/09/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB383&version=20150SB38396AMD)
5. **08/17/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB383&version=20150SB38395AMD)
6. **09/02/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB383&version=20150SB38394AMD)
7. **10/01/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB383&version=20150SB38392CHP)
8. **SB383** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB383)
9. **09/09/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB383&version=20150SB38393ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass as amended, and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **100** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **142** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **380** (pass) · upper
- SB 383 Wieckowski Senate Third Reading By BONTA — **4920** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB383 Wieckowski Concurrence — **2713** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/42cdd277-2322-4d60-8a05-71ab0e526b6b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).