republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/sb-843.md

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Bill	Public safety.	(1) Existing law, the Trial Jury Selection and Management Act, generally governs the selection of juries in criminal and civil cases. Under existing law, a criminal defendant is generally entitled to exercise 10 peremptory challenges during the jury selection process. When 2 or more defendants are jointly tried, existing law requires these challenges to be exercised jointly, but grants each defendant an additional 5 challenges to be exercised separately. If the offense for which a defendant is being tried is punishable by a maximum term of imprisonment of 90 days or less, existing law entitles the defendant to 6 peremptory challenges and grants each jointly tried defendant 4 additional challenges to be exercised separately.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	SB 843	California SB 843 (20152016)	bill appropriation	Public safety.	enacted	Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review	7	22	3	2016-01-07	2016-06-27	openstates	ocd-bill/8ef129e9-b22f-4d13-b602-9e8487921424	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB843	e98d249ade4a86f6ef2e870887dab1cce5aa5831e21c2e15179bebda7fa9057a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 843 (20152016) — Public safety.

(1) Existing law, the Trial Jury Selection and Management Act, generally governs the selection of juries in criminal and civil cases. Under existing law, a criminal defendant is generally entitled to exercise 10 peremptory challenges during the jury selection process. When 2 or more defendants are jointly tried, existing law requires these challenges to be exercised jointly, but grants each defendant an additional 5 challenges to be exercised separately. If the offense for which a defendant is being tried is punishable by a maximum term of imprisonment of 90 days or less, existing law entitles the defendant to 6 peremptory challenges and grants each jointly tried defendant 4 additional challenges to be exercised separately.

Version chain

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

1. 01/07/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/25/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/12/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/14/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/27/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB843 (committee substitute) — source
7. 06/17/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• SB 843 B. & F. R. Senate Third Reading By TING — 51–27 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business Sup 1 SB843 Committee On B. & F.R.(Leno) Concurrence — 26–13 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading SB843 Committee On B. & F.R. — 25–11 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-01-07 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2016-01-08 From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 7.
• 2016-01-11 Referred to Com. on B. & F.R. referral-committee
• 2016-04-11 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2016-04-11 Ordered to second reading.
• 2016-04-12 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-04-14 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 25. Noes 11. Page 3542.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-04-14 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2016-05-02 Referred to Com. on BUDGET. referral-committee
• 2016-05-25 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-12 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-14 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-15 Assembly Rule 96 suspended. (Ayes 50. Noes 25. Page 5358.)
• 2016-06-15 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2016-06-15 Ordered to third reading.
• 2016-06-15 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 50. Noes 25. Page 5358.)
• 2016-06-16 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 51. Noes 27. Page 5388.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-16 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2016-06-16 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 26. Noes 13. Page 4382.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-06-21 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2016-06-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-06-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 33, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8ef129e9-b22f-4d13-b602-9e8487921424. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).