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Bill	Arbitration agreements.	Existing law requires a court, on petition of a party to an arbitration agreement alleging (1) the existence of a written agreement to arbitrate a controversy and (2) that a party to the agreement refuses to arbitrate the controversy, to order the petitioner and the respondent to arbitrate the controversy if the court determines that an agreement to arbitrate exists, unless the court makes other determinations.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	SB 33	California SB 33 (20172018)	bill	Arbitration agreements.	enacted	Dodd	11	30	1	2016-12-05	2017-10-04	openstates	ocd-bill/0036c6ea-f9e0-4906-a2d8-877a93addd3b	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB33	9ed57720cae73d7a365d77a45835c08320fd7b8a693558e8d0ff6034136a2ac6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 33 (20172018) — Arbitration agreements.

Existing law requires a court, on petition of a party to an arbitration agreement alleging (1) the existence of a written agreement to arbitrate a controversy and (2) that a party to the agreement refuses to arbitrate the controversy, to order the petitioner and the respondent to arbitrate the controversy if the court determines that an agreement to arbitrate exists, unless the court makes other determinations.

Version chain

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

1. 12/05/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/23/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/24/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/09/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/16/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/13/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 07/03/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/24/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
9. 10/04/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. SB33 (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/07/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Unfinished Business SB33 Dodd et al. Concurrence — 25–13 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Dodd — primary (person)
• Chiu — coauthor (person)
• Dababneh — principal coauthor (person)
• Hertzberg — coauthor (person)
• Wieckowski — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-12-05 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2016-12-06 From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 5.
• 2017-01-12 Referred to Coms. on JUD. and APPR. referral-committee
• 2017-03-23 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
• 2017-04-13 Set for hearing May 2.
• 2017-04-24 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
• 2017-05-08 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 945.) (May 2). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2017-05-09 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2017-05-10 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2017-05-10 Ordered to second reading.
• 2017-05-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-16 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2017-05-16 Ordered to second reading.
• 2017-05-17 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-17 Published May 16 at 9 p.m.
• 2017-05-30 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 26. Noes 13. Page 1254.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-31 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2017-06-08 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2017-06-13 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
• 2017-06-29 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 3.) (June 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2017-07-03 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-07-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-08-24 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2017-08-24 Ordered to third reading.
• 2017-09-05 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 46. Noes 23. Page 2955.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-05 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2017-09-06 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 25. Noes 13. Page 2524.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2017-10-04 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-10-04 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 480, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0036c6ea-f9e0-4906-a2d8-877a93addd3b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).