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Bill	Attorneys: arbitration of attorney's fees.	Existing law relating to arbitration of attorney's fees tolls the time for filing a civil action seeking judicial resolution of a dispute subject to arbitration from the time an arbitration is initiated in accordance with rules adopted by the board of trustees of the State Bar of California until 30 days after receipt of notice of the award of the arbitrators or receipt of notice that the arbitration is otherwise terminated, whichever comes first. Existing law prohibits commencement of arbitration if a civil action requesting the same relief would be barred by existing law governing the time of commencing civil actions. Existing law establishes an exception to that prohibition for a request for arbitration by a client pursuant to specified provisions for arbitration of attorney's fees, following the filing of a civil action by the attorney.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 692	California AB 692 (20192020)	bill	Attorneys: arbitration of attorney's fees.	enacted	Maienschein	4	15	4	2019-02-19	2019-06-26	openstates	ocd-bill/fbeb11d0-cd80-480e-8cec-5af26cb33485	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB692	8f55b930cbc2383a5ce4361c2d52dd69e8fcb640c873b1a2593a5434f2fc7005	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 692 (20192020) — Attorneys: arbitration of attorney's fees.

Existing law relating to arbitration of attorney's fees tolls the time for filing a civil action seeking judicial resolution of a dispute subject to arbitration from the time an arbitration is initiated in accordance with rules adopted by the board of trustees of the State Bar of California until 30 days after receipt of notice of the award of the arbitrators or receipt of notice that the arbitration is otherwise terminated, whichever comes first. Existing law prohibits commencement of arbitration if a civil action requesting the same relief would be barred by existing law governing the time of commencing civil actions. Existing law establishes an exception to that prohibition for a request for arbitration by a client pursuant to specified provisions for arbitration of attorney's fees, following the filing of a civil action by the attorney.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/26/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. AB692 (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/18/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Consent Calendar AB692 — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 692 Maienschein Consent Calendar Second Day — 74–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Maienschein — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-19 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2019-02-28 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2019-03-26 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (March 26). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-03-27 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-04-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 959.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-04-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-04-24 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2019-06-04 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 4). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-06-05 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-06-17 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1606.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-06-18 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2019-06-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-06-26 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-06-26 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 13, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fbeb11d0-cd80-480e-8cec-5af26cb33485. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).