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Bill	Courts: frivolous actions or tactics.	Existing law, until January 1, 2018, authorizes a trial court to order a party, the party's attorney, or both, to pay the reasonable expenses, including attorney's fees, incurred by another party as a result of bad-faith actions or tactics, as defined, that are frivolous or solely intended to cause unnecessary delay. Existing law requires a party filing a motion pursuant to those provisions to promptly transmit specified information to the California Research Bureau of the California State Library. Existing law requires the bureau to maintain a public record of transmitted information for at least 3 years, or until those provisions are repealed, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 984	California AB 984 (20172018)	bill	Courts: frivolous actions or tactics.	enacted	Calderon	7	28	6	2017-02-16	2017-08-07	openstates	ocd-bill/2ec34755-d092-4b20-9590-278c9cb0eb20	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB984	6bc8295eefa133b40a61fd1c3efeef137da8122b1e10f5231d5fdd190e2c2de5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 984 (20172018) — Courts: frivolous actions or tactics.

Existing law, until January 1, 2018, authorizes a trial court to order a party, the party's attorney, or both, to pay the reasonable expenses, including attorney's fees, incurred by another party as a result of bad-faith actions or tactics, as defined, that are frivolous or solely intended to cause unnecessary delay. Existing law requires a party filing a motion pursuant to those provisions to promptly transmit specified information to the California Research Bureau of the California State Library. Existing law requires the bureau to maintain a public record of transmitted information for at least 3 years, or until those provisions are repealed, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/20/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/19/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/12/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/07/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB984 (committee substitute) — source
7. 07/21/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 984 CALDERON Concurrence - Urgency Added — 70–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 984 CALDERON Assembly Third Reading — 73–1 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB984 Calderon By Hertzberg Urgency Clause — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 6–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Calderon — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2017-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2017-03-02 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2017-03-27 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2017-04-20 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
• 2017-04-24 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2017-04-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-05-10 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 10). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-05-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-15 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 1. Page 1542.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-15 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-05-24 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2017-06-19 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
• 2017-06-28 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-06-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-07-12 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2017-07-13 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-07-13 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5. referral-committee
• 2017-07-17 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2017-07-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-07-20 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2120.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-07-20 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 22 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2017-07-20 Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended.
• 2017-07-20 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 46. Noes 22. Page 2636.)
• 2017-07-20 Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 2638.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-07-31 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2017-08-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-08-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 169, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2ec34755-d092-4b20-9590-278c9cb0eb20. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).