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Bill	Courts, judicial emergencies.	Existing law authorizes a presiding judge to request the Chairperson of the Judicial Council to authorize the court to transfer cases to an adjacent county, hold sessions in other parts of the county, extend specified time periods, and declare judicial holidays, among other emergency responses, when war, insurrection, pestilence, or other public calamity, among other things, threatens the orderly operation of a superior court location or locations within a county.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	SB 1208	California SB 1208 (20172018)	bill	Courts judicial emergencies.	enacted	Committee on Judiciary	7	25	6	2018-02-15	2018-08-24	openstates	ocd-bill/d2079a2b-5c42-4c03-8029-e414bb73198e	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1208	8efe73100437cd13910aa6aff722af7137a3bd11893ebdae4594718d20da4d03	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 1208 (20172018) — Courts, judicial emergencies.

Existing law authorizes a presiding judge to request the Chairperson of the Judicial Council to authorize the court to transfer cases to an adjacent county, hold sessions in other parts of the county, extend specified time periods, and declare judicial holidays, among other emergency responses, when war, insurrection, pestilence, or other public calamity, among other things, threatens the orderly operation of a superior court location or locations within a county.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/04/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/31/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/14/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/24/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB1208 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/10/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Unfinished Business SB1208 JUD. (Jackson) Concurrence — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 1208 JUD. Consent Calendar Second Day — 69–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar SB1208 JUD. — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Public Safety] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 9–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Committee on Judiciary — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-15 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2018-02-16 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
• 2018-03-01 Referred to Coms. on JUD. and PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2018-03-21 Set for hearing April 3.
• 2018-04-03 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 4515.) (April 3). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2018-04-04 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2018-04-11 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2018-04-11 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2018-04-13 Set for hearing April 23.
• 2018-04-23 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2018-04-24 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-04-30 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4879.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-04-30 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2018-05-07 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2018-05-31 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2018-06-13 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 12). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2018-06-14 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2018-06-27 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (June 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-06-28 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-07-05 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 6109.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-07-05 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2018-08-09 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 5222.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-08-15 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2018-08-24 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-08-24 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 201, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d2079a2b-5c42-4c03-8029-e414bb73198e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).