republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/sb-836.md

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Bill	Evidence: immigration status.	Existing law provides that all relevant evidence is admissible in an action before the court, including evidence relevant to the credibility of a witness or hearsay declaring, subject to specified exceptions. Existing law also provides that, in civil actions for personal injury or wrongful death, evidence of a person's immigration status is not admissible and discovery of a person's immigration status is not permitted.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 836	California SB 836 (20212022)	bill	Evidence: immigration status.	enacted	Wiener	5	22	6	2022-01-06	2022-08-22	openstates	ocd-bill/6d794454-5e59-4ad0-b3b6-44c07e5a8c8c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB836	13a661261eafd564483fc01def71b78903e0c2ef5b349334a481656fd4bc98f8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 836 (20212022) — Evidence: immigration status.

Existing law provides that all relevant evidence is admissible in an action before the court, including evidence relevant to the credibility of a witness or hearsay declaring, subject to specified exceptions. Existing law also provides that, in civil actions for personal injury or wrongful death, evidence of a person's immigration status is not admissible and discovery of a person's immigration status is not permitted.

Version chain

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

1. 01/06/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 02/18/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/22/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. SB836 (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/08/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• SB 836 Wiener Third Reading Urgency By Kalra — 71–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 5–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading (Urgency Clause) — 28–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 9–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Wiener — primary (person)
• Haney — coauthor (person)
• Kalra — coauthor (person)
• Rubio — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-06 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2022-01-07 From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 6.
• 2022-01-19 Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2022-02-18 Set for hearing March 8.
• 2022-02-18 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-03-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 3049.) (March 8). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-03-10 Set for hearing March 29.
• 2022-03-30 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 3254.) (March 29). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-31 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-02 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 28. Noes 0. Page 3579.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-02 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2022-05-05 Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2022-06-01 Coauthors revised.
• 2022-06-01 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 1). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-06-08 Coauthors revised.
• 2022-06-08 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 8). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-06-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-04 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 5750.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-04 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2022-08-12 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2022-08-22 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-08-22 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 168, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6d794454-5e59-4ad0-b3b6-44c07e5a8c8c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).