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Bill	International commercial arbitration: representation.	Existing law includes provisions that govern arbitration and conciliation proceedings for international commercial disputes. Existing law authorizes the parties in a conciliation proceeding to appear in person or be represented or assisted by any person of their choice, and provides that a person representing or assisting a party is not required to be a member of the legal profession or licensed to practice law in California.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	SB 766	California SB 766 (20172018)	bill	International commercial arbitration: representation.	enacted	Monning	7	23	5	2017-02-17	2018-07-18	openstates	ocd-bill/c861c962-95e8-4465-bfcf-f5022a967f83	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB766	a3eb42f166482c07bbb366c90532f4f5b3b052555927af8677bddc8ec9b94cbd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 766 (20172018) — International commercial arbitration: representation.

Existing law includes provisions that govern arbitration and conciliation proceedings for international commercial disputes. Existing law authorizes the parties in a conciliation proceeding to appear in person or be represented or assisted by any person of their choice, and provides that a person representing or assisting a party is not required to be a member of the legal profession or licensed to practice law in California.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/11/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/31/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/26/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/18/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB766 (committee substitute) — source
7. 07/09/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 9–0 (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
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 766 Monning Consent Calendar Second Day — 69–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar SB766 — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Monning — primary (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
• 2017-05-31 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
• 2017-06-08 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2017-06-26 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
• 2017-12-21 Set for hearing January 9.
• 2018-01-10 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 4021.) (January 9). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2018-01-11 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2018-01-13 Set for hearing January 16.
• 2018-01-16 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2018-01-17 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-01-29 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4116.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-01-30 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2018-04-19 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2018-06-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 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 6107.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-07-05 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2018-07-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2018-07-18 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-07-18 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 134, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c861c962-95e8-4465-bfcf-f5022a967f83. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).