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Bill	Enforcement of money judgments: exemptions.	(1) Existing law authorizes a judgment creditor to levy upon the property of a judgment debtor to satisfy a judgment, and authorizes the judgment debtor to claim that certain property is exempt from the levy by following a specified procedure. Existing law authorizes a claimant to assert an exemption by filing a claim of exemption with the levying officer within 10 days after the date the notice of levy on the property claimed to be exempt is served on the judgment debtor. Existing law authorizes a judgment creditor who opposes a claim of exemption to file a notice of opposition to the claim and a notice of motion for an order determining the claim within 10 days after service of the notice of claim of exemption.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	SB 616	California SB 616 (20192020)	bill	Enforcement of money judgments: exemptions.	enacted	Wieckowski	8	29	7	2019-02-22	2019-10-07	openstates	ocd-bill/131b560f-ede5-41a2-a782-f9299d7824db	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB616	692e0e1e493e28ba344ea2d1da49bc2388854e344b8b95ea2c08298f7c5af944	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 616 (20192020) — Enforcement of money judgments: exemptions.

(1) Existing law authorizes a judgment creditor to levy upon the property of a judgment debtor to satisfy a judgment, and authorizes the judgment debtor to claim that certain property is exempt from the levy by following a specified procedure. Existing law authorizes a claimant to assert an exemption by filing a claim of exemption with the levying officer within 10 days after the date the notice of levy on the property claimed to be exempt is served on the judgment debtor. Existing law authorizes a judgment creditor who opposes a claim of exemption to file a notice of opposition to the claim and a notice of motion for an order determining the claim within 10 days after service of the notice of claim of exemption.

Version chain

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

1. 02/22/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/28/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/24/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/13/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/06/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/07/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB616 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/13/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Unfinished Business SB616 Wieckowski et al. Concurrence — 28–12 (pass) · upper
• SB 616 Wieckowski Senate Third Reading By Luz Rivas Amendment Set #1 — 53–16 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 11–5 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–3 (pass) · lower
• SB 616 Wieckowski Senate Third Reading By Luz Rivas — 48–23 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading SB616 Wieckowski et al. — 26–9 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Wieckowski — primary (person)
• Hertzberg — principal coauthor (person)
• Luz Rivas — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-22 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2019-02-25 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 27.
• 2019-02-25 Read first time. reading-1
• 2019-03-14 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2019-03-27 Set for hearing April 9.
• 2019-03-28 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
• 2019-04-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 653.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-26 Set for hearing May 6.
• 2019-05-06 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2019-05-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-24 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-24 Ordered to second reading.
• 2019-05-28 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-29 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 26. Noes 9. Page 1364.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-29 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2019-06-06 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2019-06-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 3.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-07-03 July 3 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2019-08-13 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-21 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 5.) (August 21). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-06 Read third time and amended. (Ayes 53. Noes 16. Page 3076.) amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-06 Ordered to third reading.
• 2019-09-10 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 48. Noes 23. Page 3269.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-10 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2019-09-11 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 28. Noes 12. Page 2843.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-19 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2019-10-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 552, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/131b560f-ede5-41a2-a782-f9299d7824db. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).