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Bill	Judicial emergencies.	Existing law authorizes a presiding judge of a superior court to request that the Chairperson of the Judicial Council order the court to take certain actions when war, an act of terrorism, public unrest or calamity, epidemic, natural disaster, or other substantial risk to the health and welfare of court personnel or the public, or the danger thereof, threatens the orderly operation of the courts or makes court facilities unsafe, including, but not limited to, holding court sessions anywhere within the county, transferring civil cases to another county, or extending the time periods for bringing an action to trial, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 3366	California AB 3366 (20192020)	bill	Judicial emergencies.	enacted	Committee on Judiciary	8	27	5	2020-03-05	2020-09-11	openstates	ocd-bill/ba9410ca-8e98-4fe4-9b09-062c8a319690	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB3366	78eea112e2620c02626bc7f4ac1941ef0a3f82a7525b200d26b9a924e8cd0f61	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 3366 (20192020) — Judicial emergencies.

Existing law authorizes a presiding judge of a superior court to request that the Chairperson of the Judicial Council order the court to take certain actions when war, an act of terrorism, public unrest or calamity, epidemic, natural disaster, or other substantial risk to the health and welfare of court personnel or the public, or the danger thereof, threatens the orderly operation of the courts or makes court facilities unsafe, including, but not limited to, holding court sessions anywhere within the county, transferring civil cases to another county, or extending the time periods for bringing an action to trial, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 03/05/20 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/04/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/20/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/28/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/08/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/11/20 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB3366 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/31/20 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 3366 JUD. Third Reading Urgency By STONE — 62–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB3366 JUD. (Stone) By Jackson Urgency Clause — 30–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Committee on Judiciary — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-03-05 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2020-03-06 From printer. May be heard in committee April 5.
• 2020-04-24 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-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
• 2020-05-07 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2020-05-20 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
• 2020-05-21 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2020-05-27 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (May 27). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2020-05-28 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-06-01 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-06-01 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5. referral-committee
• 2020-06-01 Joint Rule 62(a) suspended. (Page 4624.)
• 2020-06-02 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 2). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2020-06-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-06-08 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 4693.) amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-06-15 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 62. Noes 2. Page 4853.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-06-16 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2020-07-01 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2020-07-31 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. 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 pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2020-08-14 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-28 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 2. Page 4398.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-28 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2020-09-04 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2020-09-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2020-09-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 76, Statutes of 2020.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ba9410ca-8e98-4fe4-9b09-062c8a319690. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).