republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/ab-1981.md

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Bill	Jury duty.	Existing law establishes the Trial Court Trust Fund for the purpose of funding trial court operations. For purposes of those provisions, court operations are defined to include, among other things, juror expenses such as travel reimbursement. Existing law also specifies the travel reimbursement to be paid to jurors in civil and criminal cases at $0.34 per mile for each mile traveled in attending court after the first day, in going only.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 1981	California AB 1981 (20212022)	bill	Jury duty.	enacted	Lee	6	24	7	2022-02-10	2022-09-15	openstates	ocd-bill/739e0978-d5db-4057-bde6-988f4c4b674e	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1981	e0c1c44c3dbc5f17cfa93d4b947316e9bbda498f8cdfcedee3420dc726994da2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1981 (20212022) — Jury duty.

Existing law establishes the Trial Court Trust Fund for the purpose of funding trial court operations. For purposes of those provisions, court operations are defined to include, among other things, juror expenses such as travel reimbursement. Existing law also specifies the travel reimbursement to be paid to jurors in civil and criminal cases at $0.34 per mile for each mile traveled in attending court after the first day, in going only.

Version chain

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

1. 02/10/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/16/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/19/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/15/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB1981 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/25/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1981 Lee Assembly Third Reading — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent AB1981 — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Lee — primary (person)
• Becker — coauthor (person)
• Berman — coauthor (person)
• Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
• Eduardo Garcia — coauthor (person)
• Nazarian — coauthor (person)
• Newman — coauthor (person)
• Stone — coauthor (person)
• Wiener — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-10 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2022-02-11 From printer. May be heard in committee March 13.
• 2022-02-18 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2022-03-10 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2022-03-16 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-03-17 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2022-03-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (March 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-04-27 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2022-05-19 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 19). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2022-05-19 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-27 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2022-06-08 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2022-06-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-08-02 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2022-08-11 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-22 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2022-08-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 4978.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-23 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2022-08-30 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2022-09-15 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-15 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 326, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/739e0978-d5db-4057-bde6-988f4c4b674e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).