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Bill	Civil procedure: electronic filing, trial delays, and remote depositions.	(1) Existing law authorizes a trial court to adopt local rules permitting electronic filing of documents, subject to specified conditions. Existing law authorizes a court to require electronic filing and service in civil actions, subject to rules adopted by the Judicial Council permitting mandatory electronic filing and service in specified civil actions.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	SB 1146	California SB 1146 (20192020)	bill	Civil procedure: electronic filing trial delays and remote depositions.	enacted	Umberg	10	29	5	2020-02-20	2020-09-18	openstates	ocd-bill/27771174-f504-48c0-b083-059b1f51523f	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1146	7dbb2c9ad7a2e620af586818995ad0860e05c2450b69b85e470a8b93f61765d2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 1146 (20192020) — Civil procedure: electronic filing, trial delays, and remote depositions.

(1) Existing law authorizes a trial court to adopt local rules permitting electronic filing of documents, subject to specified conditions. Existing law authorizes a court to require electronic filing and service in civil actions, subject to rules adopted by the Judicial Council permitting mandatory electronic filing and service in specified civil actions.

Version chain

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

1. 02/20/20 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/25/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/13/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/29/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/27/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/13/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/27/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/18/20 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. SB1146 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/04/20 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB1146 Umberg Urgency Clause Concurrence — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 1146 Umberg Third Reading Urgency By Reyes — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 11–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Umberg — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-02-20 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2020-02-21 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
• 2020-03-05 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2020-03-25 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-05-11 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2020-05-13 Set for hearing May 22.
• 2020-05-13 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-05-28 From committee: Do pass as amended. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 3583.) (May 22). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2020-05-29 Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-06-11 From consent calendar on motion of Senator Jackson.
• 2020-06-11 Ordered to third reading.
• 2020-06-15 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 3713.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-06-16 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2020-06-29 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2020-07-09 July 22 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2020-07-27 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-07-27 July 30 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2020-08-12 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (August 12). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2020-08-13 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-17 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-27 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-27 Ordered to third reading.
• 2020-08-31 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5412.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-31 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2020-09-01 Urgency clause adopted.
• 2020-09-01 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 35. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2020-09-18 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2020-09-18 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 112, Statutes of 2020.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/27771174-f504-48c0-b083-059b1f51523f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).