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Bill	Marriage: joint petition for dissolution of marriage.	Existing law requires a proceeding for dissolution of marriage or for legal separation of the parties to be commenced by filing a petition containing specific information, including the date of marriage and the date of separation. Existing law requires a party to serve a copy of the petition with a copy of a summons upon the other party and requires the other party to respond in a specified time and manner.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 1427	California SB 1427 (20232024)	bill	Marriage joint petition for dissolution of marriage	enacted	Allen	7	24	5	2024-02-16	2024-08-19	openstates	ocd-bill/70cb7802-e08e-4b07-8a06-1d9b1ff36fb9	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1427	2e88792667d635f6ba57b13e984df9942059443c8aa96d1398463ec55c33e38a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 1427 (20232024) — Marriage: joint petition for dissolution of marriage.

Existing law requires a proceeding for dissolution of marriage or for legal separation of the parties to be commenced by filing a petition containing specific information, including the date of marriage and the date of separation. Existing law requires a party to serve a copy of the petition with a copy of a summons upon the other party and requires the other party to respond in a specified time and manner.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/20/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/04/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/23/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/19/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB1427 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/09/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Consent Calendar 2nd — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 1427 Allen Consent Calendar Second Day — 72–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Allen — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-16 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2024-02-20 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
• 2024-02-29 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2024-03-20 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
• 2024-04-03 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 3448.) (April 2). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-04 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-04-22 Set for hearing April 29.
• 2024-04-23 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-04-25 April 29 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2024-04-26 Set for hearing May 6.
• 2024-05-06 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2024-05-07 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-09 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 3874.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-05-09 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2024-05-20 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2024-06-04 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 4). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-06-26 June 26 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2024-07-02 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (July 2). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-07-03 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-08 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 6250.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-08 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2024-08-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2024-08-19 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-08-19 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 190, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/70cb7802-e08e-4b07-8a06-1d9b1ff36fb9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).