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Bill	Court fees: electronic filing.	(1) Existing law establishes various fees to be paid upon the filing of documents with the court. Existing law also provides for the electronic filing and service of documents through an electronic filing service provider.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 1531	California AB 1531 (20172018)	bill	Court fees: electronic filing.	enacted	Berman	9	32	6	2017-02-17	2018-09-05	openstates	ocd-bill/e30af091-75e5-4660-ab31-48fe9d5cd2bc	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1531	53e734181bd4465456c2b718922279b2e348a1495ccc9c397959b5ad0f948036	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1531 (20172018) — Court fees: electronic filing.

(1) Existing law establishes various fees to be paid upon the filing of documents with the court. Existing law also provides for the electronic filing and service of documents through an electronic filing service provider.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/10/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/28/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/18/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/02/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/05/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/13/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. AB1531 (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/22/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1531 BERMAN Consent Calendar Second Day — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar AB1531 — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1531 BERMAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Berman — 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.
• 2017-03-27 Referred to Coms. on U. & E. and L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2017-03-28 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on U. & E. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-03-29 Re-referred to Com. on U. & E. referral-committee
• 2017-04-17 Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Page 1005.)
• 2017-04-17 (pending re-refer to Com. on L. GOV.)
• 2017-04-19 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2017-09-13 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on U. & E. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-14 Re-referred to Com. on U. & E. referral-committee
• 2017-09-15 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. referral-committee
• 2018-01-03 From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on JUD. Re-referred. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (January 3). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-01-09 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (January 9). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-01-10 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-01-11 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2018-01-18 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (January 18). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-01-22 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-01-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 3868.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-01-29 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-04-19 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2018-06-06 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2018-06-18 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-28 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 26). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-07-02 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2018-08-06 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2018-08-07 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 5280.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-14 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 16 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2018-08-20 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6350.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-08-24 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2018-09-05 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-05 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 248, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e30af091-75e5-4660-ab31-48fe9d5cd2bc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).