republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/sb-233.md

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Bill	Civil actions: appearance by telephone.	Existing law authorizes a party who has provided notice to appear by telephone at specified conferences, hearings, or proceedings in civil cases. Existing law requires the Judicial Council to adopt rules effectuating those policies and provisions. Existing law also requires the Judicial Council to establish statewide, uniform fees to be paid by a party for appearing by telephone.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 233	California SB 233 (20212022)	bill	Civil actions: appearance by telephone.	enacted	Umberg	6	29	8	2021-01-19	2022-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/7d3da66b-94cf-4ea0-b96c-54917ed9e2ae	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB233	d2145846ca14379e7101d2d95695a0094e5819cf761a3a0d5c96cea3491c7114	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 233 (20212022) — Civil actions: appearance by telephone.

Existing law authorizes a party who has provided notice to appear by telephone at specified conferences, hearings, or proceedings in civil cases. Existing law requires the Judicial Council to adopt rules effectuating those policies and provisions. Existing law also requires the Judicial Council to establish statewide, uniform fees to be paid by a party for appearing by telephone.

Version chain

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

1. 01/19/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/01/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/16/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/30/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. SB233 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/01/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent SB233 — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• That the Assembly amendments be concurred in — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Consent Calendar — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 233 Umberg Senate Third Reading By Stone — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Umberg — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-19 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2021-01-20 From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 19.
• 2021-01-28 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2021-03-01 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-03-11 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-03-23 Set for hearing April 6.
• 2021-04-07 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 685.) (April 6). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-08 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-04-22 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 885.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-04-22 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2021-05-13 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-06-17 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. referral-committee
• 2022-06-16 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2022-06-16 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-06-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-08-03 August 3 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2022-08-11 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (August 11). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-18 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 5930.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-18 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2022-08-22 Re-referred to Com. on RLS pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). referral-committee
• 2022-08-22 From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on JUD. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 4917.) Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-08-24 Set for hearing August 24.
• 2022-08-24 From committee: That the Assembly amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 5107.) committee-passage
• 2022-08-30 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2022-08-30 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5345.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-09-06 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2022-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 979, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7d3da66b-94cf-4ea0-b96c-54917ed9e2ae. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).