republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/ab-1349.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Civil actions: discovery."
description: "Existing law governs discovery in civil actions, and allows a party to obtain discovery from another party through written interrogatories and requests for admission, among others. Under existing law, each response by the responding party to these discovery requests is required to include the same number or letter, and be in the same sequence, as the corresponding discovery request, as specified, but is not required to repeat the text of the particular discovery request."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 1349"
citation: "California AB 1349 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Civil actions: discovery."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Obernolte"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-02-22"
last_action: "2019-08-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/68e10e45-fd94-47f7-954f-8f1f8236f673"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1349"
source_hash: "44b66fc30cc0b5b811af30cf52e8b59b03df041e7567d2a3d369df58138a12a8"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 1349 (20192020) — Civil actions: discovery.

Existing law governs discovery in civil actions, and allows a party to obtain discovery from another party through written interrogatories and requests for admission, among others. Under existing law, each response by the responding party to these discovery requests is required to include the same number or letter, and be in the same sequence, as the corresponding discovery request, as specified, but is not required to repeat the text of the particular discovery request.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/22/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1349&version=20190AB134999INT)
2. **04/08/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1349&version=20190AB134998AMD)
3. **06/14/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1349&version=20190AB134997AMD)
4. **08/30/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1349&version=20190AB134995CHP)
5. **AB1349** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1349)
6. **08/13/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1349&version=20190AB134996ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1349 Obernolte Consent Calendar Second Day — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1349 Obernolte Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **77–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Obernolte — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-22** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2019-02-23** From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
- **2019-02-25** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2019-03-11** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-21** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2019-04-04** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 2). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-04-08** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-04-09** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-04-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1260.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-04-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-05-01** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-10** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2019-06-14** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-06-26** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 25). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-06-27** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-07-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2052.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-07-11** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 9 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2019-08-12** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2661.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-08-23** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2019-08-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-08-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 190, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/68e10e45-fd94-47f7-954f-8f1f8236f673`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).