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Bill	Remote marriage license issuance and solemnization.	Existing law requires applicants to be married to first appear together in person before the county clerk to obtain a marriage license. Existing law does not require a particular form for the ceremony to solemnize a marriage, but requires the parties to declare, in the physical presence of the person solemnizing their marriage and necessary witnesses, that they take each other as spouses. Existing law requires the person solemnizing the marriage to return an endorsed marriage license to the county recorder of the county in which the license was issued. Existing law authorizes a member of the Armed Forces of the United States who is stationed overseas and serving in a conflict or a war and is unable to appear for the licensure and solemnization of the marriage to enter into that marriage by the appearance of an attorney-in-fact. Existing law also authorizes a county clerk to issue a marriage license to the person solemnizing the marriage if either or both of the parties to be married are physically unable to appear in person before the county clerk, certain documentation requirements are met, and there is a sufficient reason for this procedure that includes proof of hospitalization, incarceration, or any other reason proved to the satisfaction of the county clerk. Existing executive orders delineate temporary procedures for obtaining a marriage license and solemnizing a marriage via videoconference, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 583	California AB 583 (20212022)	bill	Remote marriage license issuance and solemnization.	enacted	Davies	6	21	5	2021-02-11	2021-10-07	openstates	ocd-bill/60ce5e02-5bf6-4106-a73a-48da7e762278	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB583	6168c6c5167cfdf9c66d2396ab66591a0a16febecf73b66e69ac5288e97f0be5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 583 (20212022) — Remote marriage license issuance and solemnization.

Existing law requires applicants to be married to first appear together in person before the county clerk to obtain a marriage license. Existing law does not require a particular form for the ceremony to solemnize a marriage, but requires the parties to declare, in the physical presence of the person solemnizing their marriage and necessary witnesses, that they take each other as spouses. Existing law requires the person solemnizing the marriage to return an endorsed marriage license to the county recorder of the county in which the license was issued. Existing law authorizes a member of the Armed Forces of the United States who is stationed overseas and serving in a conflict or a war and is unable to appear for the licensure and solemnization of the marriage to enter into that marriage by the appearance of an attorney-in-fact. Existing law also authorizes a county clerk to issue a marriage license to the person solemnizing the marriage if either or both of the parties to be married are physically unable to appear in person before the county clerk, certain documentation requirements are met, and there is a sufficient reason for this procedure that includes proof of hospitalization, incarceration, or any other reason proved to the satisfaction of the county clerk. Existing executive orders delineate temporary procedures for obtaining a marriage license and solemnizing a marriage via videoconference, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/11/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/20/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 09/03/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/07/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB583 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/13/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 583 DAVIES Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 583 Davies Third Reading Urgency — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB583 Davies et al. By Min Urgency Clause — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 11–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Davies — primary (person)
• Chiu — author (person)
• Skinner — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-11 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2021-02-12 From printer. May be heard in committee March 14.
• 2021-02-18 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-03-23 Coauthors revised.
• 2021-03-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (March 23). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-20 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1464.) amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-05-24 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1529.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-05-25 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-06-03 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-06-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 15). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-17 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-03 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-09 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2580.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2021-09-09 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 3063.)
• 2021-09-09 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3077.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-17 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2021-10-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-10-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 620, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/60ce5e02-5bf6-4106-a73a-48da7e762278. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).