Under existing law, if a copy of a summons and complaint cannot with reasonable diligence be personally delivered to the person to be served, as specified, a summons and complaint may be served by leaving a copy with certain people at the person's dwelling house, usual place of abode, usual place of business, or usual mailing address, other than a United States Postal Service box, and mailing a copy of the summons and complaint by first-class mail to the place where a copy was left.
California AB 1093 (20172018) — Service of process.
Under existing law, if a copy of a summons and complaint cannot with reasonable diligence be personally delivered to the person to be served, as specified, a summons and complaint may be served by leaving a copy with certain people at the person's dwelling house, usual place of abode, usual place of business, or usual mailing address, other than a United States Postal Service box, and mailing a copy of the summons and complaint by first-class mail to the place where a copy was left.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 6–0 (pass) · upper
Consent Calendar 2nd — 40–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
Chen — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2017-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2017-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
2017-03-06 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
2017-04-17 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
2017-04-18 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
2017-05-01 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
2017-05-10 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 9). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
2017-05-11 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
2017-05-15 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
2017-05-18 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 1620.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
2017-05-18 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2017-06-01 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
2017-06-28 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2017-06-29 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
2017-07-10 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1932.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
2017-07-11 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
2017-07-14 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
2017-07-24 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2017-07-24 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 129, Statutes of 2017.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/eb4fb358-84c1-4622-beac-0d24314996fb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).