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Bill	Civil actions: confidentiality.	Existing law requires a civil action to be prosecuted in the name of the real party in interest, except as otherwise provided by statute. Existing law permits a person who has been the victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, human trafficking, or elder or dependent adult abuse, to apply to the Secretary of State to participate in an address confidentiality program, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 800	California AB 800 (20192020)	bill	Civil actions: confidentiality.	enacted	Chu	7	23	6	2019-02-20	2019-10-02	openstates	ocd-bill/dbb62f76-ba8c-4bc4-98a1-f84b6c0910f3	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB800	77b3672e135e7d979334bf1b4f5d897c215057ed387f6d85ebd0869fdb4c87f2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 800 (20192020) — Civil actions: confidentiality.

Existing law requires a civil action to be prosecuted in the name of the real party in interest, except as otherwise provided by statute. Existing law permits a person who has been the victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, human trafficking, or elder or dependent adult abuse, to apply to the Secretary of State to participate in an address confidentiality program, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/20/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/27/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/10/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/28/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/02/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB800 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/03/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB800 Chu et al. By Jackson — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 800 Chu Assembly Third Reading — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 800 Chu Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 73–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Chu — primary (person)
• Gonzalez — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-20 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
• 2019-02-28 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2019-03-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (March 26). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-03-27 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-03-28 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2019-04-10 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-05-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (May 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1875.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-24 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-06-06 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2019-06-10 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
• 2019-06-28 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
• 2019-07-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-12 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2019-08-13 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-08-26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2268.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-08-27 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 29 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2019-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 2895.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-05 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2019-10-02 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-02 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 439, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/dbb62f76-ba8c-4bc4-98a1-f84b6c0910f3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).