republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/ab-253.md

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Bill	Remote court reporting.	Existing law authorizes a superior court to appoint official court reporters and specifies the fees for court reporting services.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 253	California AB 253 (20192020)	bill	Remote court reporting.	enacted	Mark Stone	7	28	9	2019-01-23	2019-10-02	openstates	ocd-bill/3be40f76-ff7c-401e-bb0d-2e3a994eb2f3	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB253	d222f5fddd73d02453291de7be570bd1cc6cf601a409f24a38d23ea4d4174645	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 253 (20192020) — Remote court reporting.

Existing law authorizes a superior court to appoint official court reporters and specifies the fees for court reporting services.

Version chain

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

1. 01/23/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/13/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/21/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/03/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/02/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB253 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/17/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 253 Mark Stone Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 253 Mark Stone Consent Calendar Second Day — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB253 Mark Stone By Beall — 40–0 (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 [Privacy and Consumer Protection] — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Mark Stone — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-23 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-01-24 From printer. May be heard in committee February 23.
• 2019-03-07 Referred to Coms. on HIGHER ED. and P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2019-04-03 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-05-01 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-05-02 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1587.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-09 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-05-22 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2019-06-13 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2019-06-19 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2019-06-21 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
• 2019-07-03 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-12 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-08-30 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-08-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-03 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-04 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2700.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 11 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2019-09-10 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 3252.)
• 2019-09-10 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2019-09-10 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 3303.)
• 2019-09-11 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (September 11). committee-passage
• 2019-09-12 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3470.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-24 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-10-02 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-02 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 419, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3be40f76-ff7c-401e-bb0d-2e3a994eb2f3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).