republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/sb-658.md

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Bill	Jury selection.	The Trial Jury Selection and Management Act, among other things, requires a trial judge to examine the prospective jurors in civil jury trials. The act gives the counsel for each party, after this initial examination, the right to examine any of the prospective jurors, as specified, in order to enable counsel to intelligently exercise both peremptory challenges and challenges for cause. The act prohibits a court from arbitrarily or unreasonably refusing to submit a reasonable written questionnaire to the jury if requested by counsel and states that the parties should be provided reasonable time to evaluate the responses to the questionnaire, if utilized, before oral questioning commences. The act states that the trial judge should consider, among other criteria, any unique or complex elements in the case when exercising his or her discretion as to the form and subject matter of voir dire questions.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	SB 658	California SB 658 (20172018)	bill	Jury selection.	enacted	Wiener	8	26	3	2017-02-17	2017-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/ccc04795-9dda-43b6-b307-631e90aa0971	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB658	1e322ee0c596014b41693ac23289600d7376ab1c6ae1e5ec150ee54239d8f02d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 658 (20172018) — Jury selection.

The Trial Jury Selection and Management Act, among other things, requires a trial judge to examine the prospective jurors in civil jury trials. The act gives the counsel for each party, after this initial examination, the right to examine any of the prospective jurors, as specified, in order to enable counsel to intelligently exercise both peremptory challenges and challenges for cause. The act prohibits a court from arbitrarily or unreasonably refusing to submit a reasonable written questionnaire to the jury if requested by counsel and states that the parties should be provided reasonable time to evaluate the responses to the questionnaire, if utilized, before oral questioning commences. The act states that the trial judge should consider, among other criteria, any unique or complex elements in the case when exercising his or her discretion as to the form and subject matter of voir dire questions.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/17 - 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. 08/22/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/27/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB658 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/07/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended. — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent SB658 — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 658 Wiener Senate Third Reading By BAKER — 72–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Wiener — primary (person)
• Kalra — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-17 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2017-02-21 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
• 2017-03-09 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2017-03-23 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-03-29 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2017-04-13 Set for hearing April 25.
• 2017-04-17 April 25 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2017-04-18 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. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 946.) (May 2). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2017-05-09 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-05-09 Published May 9 at 9 p.m.
• 2017-05-15 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1070.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-16 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2017-06-01 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2017-06-05 June 13 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2017-08-21 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 18). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2017-08-22 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-08-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-08-31 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 2847.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-08-31 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2017-09-01 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2017-09-05 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2480.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2017-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 337, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ccc04795-9dda-43b6-b307-631e90aa0971. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).