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Bill	Court access.	The California Constitution vests the judicial power of the state in the Supreme Court, courts of appeal, and superior courts. Existing law requires the sittings of every court to be public, except as authorized.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 716	California AB 716 (20212022)	bill	Court access.	enacted	Bennett	8	27	8	2021-02-16	2021-10-05	openstates	ocd-bill/170f92b0-ccba-43ec-bbd5-499a1efdf3d6	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB716	23a83747ca3e11b7afab6348dcbc2050b1178ce845bf3de69798b518ac526afd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 716 (20212022) — Court access.

The California Constitution vests the judicial power of the state in the Supreme Court, courts of appeal, and superior courts. Existing law requires the sittings of every court to be public, except as authorized.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/16/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/25/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/15/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/03/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/05/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB716 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/15/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 716 Bennett Assembly Third Reading — 72–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB716 Bennett By Umberg — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 716 Bennett Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bennett — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2021-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2021-02-25 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-03-16 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
• 2021-03-17 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-03-24 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (March 23). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-03-25 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-03-26 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2021-04-14 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-05-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 20). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 1639.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-05-28 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-06-09 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-07-14 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 13). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-07-15 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-08-16 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-08-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 26). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-08-26 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
• 2021-09-10 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 2603.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-10 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2021-09-10 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3151.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-22 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2021-10-05 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-10-05 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 526, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/170f92b0-ccba-43ec-bbd5-499a1efdf3d6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).