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Bill	Solemnization of marriage: county sheriff.	Existing law authorizes specified individuals to solemnize a marriage, including, among others, an authorized person of any religious denomination, a judge or magistrate, a current Member of the Legislature or constitutional officer of this state, and a current Member of Congress of the United States who represents a district within this state, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	SB 875	California SB 875 (20152016)	bill	Solemnization of marriage: county sheriff.	enacted	Gaines	7	29	6	2016-01-14	2016-08-26	openstates	ocd-bill/a368d760-efe6-438c-97d4-6110b1b0b3d2	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB875	ec8e9efb77eed7fc500c141f2cc462e26931ebbb90474c4572e20f81020f619a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 875 (20152016) — Solemnization of marriage: county sheriff.

Existing law authorizes specified individuals to solemnize a marriage, including, among others, an authorized person of any religious denomination, a judge or magistrate, a current Member of the Legislature or constitutional officer of this state, and a current Member of Congress of the United States who represents a district within this state, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 01/14/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/08/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/01/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/01/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/26/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB875 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/12/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Consent Calendar 2nd — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent SB875 Gaines Concurrence — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 875 Gaines Consent Calendar Second Day — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 875 Gaines Senate Third Reading By GAINES — 76–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Gaines — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-01-14 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2016-01-15 From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 14.
• 2016-01-28 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2016-03-08 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
• 2016-03-16 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2016-04-21 Set for hearing May 3.
• 2016-05-04 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 3766.) (May 3). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-05 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-12 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 3849.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-05-12 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2016-05-19 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2016-06-01 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.
• 2016-06-27 Ordered to the Assembly.
• 2016-06-28 In Assembly. Held at Desk.
• 2016-06-30 Action rescinded whereby the bill was read a third time, passed, and ordered to the Senate.
• 2016-06-30 Ordered to third reading.
• 2016-08-01 Read third time and amended. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-01 Ordered to third reading.
• 2016-08-04 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5713.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-04 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2016-08-10 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2016-08-11 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4880.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-16 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
• 2016-08-26 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-08-26 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 211, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a368d760-efe6-438c-97d4-6110b1b0b3d2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).