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Bill	Electronic filing and service of documents.	Existing law authorizes a trial court to adopt local rules permitting electronic filing of documents, subject to specified conditions, including the conditions that if a document that is electronically filed in a civil action requires the signature of a person, not under penalty of perjury, the document is deemed to have been signed by the person who filed the document electronically and that any payment processing fee charged by the court, an electronic filing manager, or electronic filing service provider shall not exceed the costs incurred in processing the payment.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 2165	California AB 2165 (20192020)	bill	Electronic filing and service of documents.	enacted	Robert Rivas	8	30	6	2020-02-11	2020-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/2544891d-e41f-4ae6-83b3-ac167e91538d	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2165	e339a68cbfa71a1057661817ec57a8f6c6bf7ed2753895b967f844fd6a45d8be	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2165 (20192020) — Electronic filing and service of documents.

Existing law authorizes a trial court to adopt local rules permitting electronic filing of documents, subject to specified conditions, including the conditions that if a document that is electronically filed in a civil action requires the signature of a person, not under penalty of perjury, the document is deemed to have been signed by the person who filed the document electronically and that any payment processing fee charged by the court, an electronic filing manager, or electronic filing service provider shall not exceed the costs incurred in processing the payment.

Version chain

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

1. 02/11/20 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/04/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/07/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/25/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/26/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/28/20 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2165 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/04/20 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB2165 Robert Rivas et al. By Umberg — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2165 Robert Rivas Consent Calendar Second Day — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2165 Robert Rivas Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 18–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Robert Rivas — primary (person)
• Bonta — coauthor (person)
• Eduardo Garcia — coauthor (person)
• Eggman — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-02-11 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2020-02-12 From printer. May be heard in committee March 13.
• 2020-02-20 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2020-03-12 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2020-03-17 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2020-05-04 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2020-05-05 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2020-05-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (May 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-05-13 Coauthors revised.
• 2020-06-02 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (June 2). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2020-06-03 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-06-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 4726.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-06-09 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2020-06-23 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2020-07-07 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
• 2020-07-31 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-08-13 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2020-08-14 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-17 From Consent Calendar.
• 2020-08-17 Ordered to third reading.
• 2020-08-25 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-26 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-30 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2020-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5442.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-09-15 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2020-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2020-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 215, Statutes of 2020.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2544891d-e41f-4ae6-83b3-ac167e91538d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).