Legal document assistants and unlawful detainer assistants.
Existing law provides for the regulation of legal document assistants and unlawful detainer assistants, and requires a legal document assistant or unlawful detainer assistant to be registered by the county clerk in the county in which the legal document assistant's or unlawful detainer assistant's principal place of business is located and where they maintain a branch office. Existing law makes the failure by a person who engages in acts of a legal document assistant or unlawful detainer assistant to comply with certain requirements for legal document assistants and unlawful detainer assistants a misdemeanor. Existing law repeals those provisions regulating legal document assistants and unlawful detainer assistants on January 1, 2024.
us/states/ca
California Legislature
20232024
AB 690
California AB 690 (20232024)
bill
Legal document assistants and unlawful detainer assistants
California AB 690 (20232024) — Legal document assistants and unlawful detainer assistants.
Existing law provides for the regulation of legal document assistants and unlawful detainer assistants, and requires a legal document assistant or unlawful detainer assistant to be registered by the county clerk in the county in which the legal document assistant's or unlawful detainer assistant's principal place of business is located and where they maintain a branch office. Existing law makes the failure by a person who engages in acts of a legal document assistant or unlawful detainer assistant to comply with certain requirements for legal document assistants and unlawful detainer assistants a misdemeanor. Existing law repeals those provisions regulating legal document assistants and unlawful detainer assistants on January 1, 2024.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
AB 690 Chen Consent Calendar Second Day — 79–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
Chen — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2023-02-13 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2023-02-14 From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
2023-02-23 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
2023-03-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (March 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2023-04-19 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2023-04-20 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
2023-04-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1364.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
2023-04-27 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2023-05-10 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
2023-06-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2023-06-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 26). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2023-06-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2023-09-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2619.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
2023-09-12 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
2023-09-19 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
2023-10-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2023-10-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 341, Statutes of 2023. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2ee5b785-777e-417a-9636-3dc44559a431. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).