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Bill	Evidence: immigration status.	Existing law provides that all relevant evidence is admissible in an action before the court, including evidence relevant to the credibility of a witness or hearsay declaring, subject to specified exceptions. Existing law also provides that, in civil actions for personal injury or wrongful death, evidence of a person's immigration status is not admissible and discovery of a person's immigration status is not permitted.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	SB 785	California SB 785 (20172018)	bill	Evidence: immigration status.	enacted	Wiener	10	30	7	2017-02-17	2018-05-17	openstates	ocd-bill/6ea16447-927a-44c7-b98e-ff91c7f457ac	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB785	3a1394d0c1e0daac0e6da7587478888bc7788bf78ce1a5092945c3df046b10d5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 785 (20172018) — Evidence: immigration status.

Existing law provides that all relevant evidence is admissible in an action before the court, including evidence relevant to the credibility of a witness or hearsay declaring, subject to specified exceptions. Existing law also provides that, in civil actions for personal injury or wrongful death, evidence of a person's immigration status is not admissible and discovery of a person's immigration status is not permitted.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/12/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/23/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/04/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/17/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. 05/23/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 07/10/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/22/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. SB785 (committee substitute) — source
10. 05/11/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• SB 785 Wiener Third Reading Urgency By GONZALEZ FLETCHER — 69–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB785 Wiener et al. Urgency Clause Concurrence — 31–6 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading SB785 Wiener et al. Urgency Clause — 32–7 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Wiener — primary (person)
• Chiu — coauthor (person)
• Gonzalez Fletcher — principal 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 Coms. on JUD. and APPR. referral-committee
• 2017-05-04 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 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2017-05-08 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2017-05-10 Re-referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2017-05-11 Set for hearing May 16.
• 2017-05-22 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1093.) (May 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2017-05-23 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2017-06-29 Set for hearing July 18.
• 2017-07-10 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
• 2017-08-21 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 2114.) (July 18). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2017-08-22 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-08-28 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 32. Noes 7. Page 2260.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-08-28 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2017-09-05 Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2018-03-06 March 6 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2018-03-12 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2018-03-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 20). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-04-02 April 3 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2018-04-19 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 17). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2018-04-23 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-04-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-04-30 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 69. Noes 1. Page 4940.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-04-30 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2018-05-10 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 31. Noes 6. Page 5006.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-05-15 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1 p.m.
• 2018-05-17 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-05-17 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 12, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6ea16447-927a-44c7-b98e-ff91c7f457ac. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).