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| Bill | Civil actions: judgments by confession. | Existing law provides that a judgment by confession is enforceable and may be entered in any superior court without the filing of a civil action, either for money due or to become due, or to secure any person against a contingent liability on behalf of the defendant, or both. Existing law permits the judgment to be entered only if the defendant has signed and filed a written statement authorizing an entry of judgment, as further specified, and the defendant's attorney has signed and filed a certificate stating the attorney has examined the proposed judgment and advised the defendant of the defendant's waiver of rights and defenses and to utilize the judgment by confession procedure, as further specified. Existing law prescribes the procedure for entering a judgment by confession. | us/states/ca | California Legislature | 20212022 | SB 688 | California SB 688 (20212022) |
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California SB 688 (20212022) — Civil actions: judgments by confession.
Existing law provides that a judgment by confession is enforceable and may be entered in any superior court without the filing of a civil action, either for money due or to become due, or to secure any person against a contingent liability on behalf of the defendant, or both. Existing law permits the judgment to be entered only if the defendant has signed and filed a written statement authorizing an entry of judgment, as further specified, and the defendant's attorney has signed and filed a certificate stating the attorney has examined the proposed judgment and advised the defendant of the defendant's waiver of rights and defenses and to utilize the judgment by confession procedure, as further specified. Existing law prescribes the procedure for entering a judgment by confession.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- 02/19/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
- 03/25/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
- 06/21/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
- 06/30/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
- 09/29/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
- SB688 (committee substitute) — source
- 08/26/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source
Votes
- Unfinished Business SB688 Wieckowski Concurrence — 31–9 (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — 12–4 (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading — 29–7 (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–2 (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–2 (pass) · lower
- SB 688 Wieckowski Senate Third Reading By HANEY — 59–15 (pass) · lower
- Be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Wieckowski — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2021-02-19 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
introduction - 2021-02-22 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
- 2021-02-22 Read first time.
reading-1 - 2021-02-22 Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
- 2021-02-22 (Ayes 32. Noes 4.)
- 2021-02-22 Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)
- 2021-03-03 Referred to Com. on JUD.
referral-committee - 2021-03-17 Set for hearing April 6.
- 2021-03-25 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 - 2021-04-07 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 2. Page 688.) (April 6). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee - 2021-04-08 Set for hearing April 19.
- 2021-04-19 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.
committee-passage, reading-2 - 2021-04-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
reading-1, reading-2 - 2021-05-03 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 7. Page 1007.) Ordered to the Assembly.
passage, reading-1, reading-3 - 2021-05-03 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 - 2022-06-09 Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
referral-committee - 2022-06-21 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 - 2022-06-29 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 2.) (June 28).
amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable - 2022-06-30 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee - 2022-08-03 August 3 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
- 2022-08-11 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (August 11).
committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable - 2022-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
reading-1, reading-2 - 2022-08-22 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 59. Noes 15. Page 6006.) Ordered to the Senate.
passage, reading-1, reading-3 - 2022-08-22 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- 2022-08-24 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 31. Noes 9. Page 5078.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable - 2022-08-30 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- 2022-09-29 Approved by the Governor.
executive-signature - 2022-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 851, Statutes of 2022.
became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5c3e45aa-14cf-4ccd-8a20-b1b5e397576c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).