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Bill	Civil actions: service of summons.	Existing law prescribes specified methods for the service of a summons in a civil action. Under existing law, if no provision is made in statute for the service of summons, a court may direct a summons to be served in a manner that is reasonably calculated to give actual notice to the party to be served.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	SB 85	California SB 85 (20252026)	bill	Civilactions serviceofsummons	enacted	Umberg	7	22	5	2025-01-21	2025-10-06	openstates	ocd-bill/e9798bf5-cb41-4da6-870e-b4cb6ce9a30a	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB85	912e9623c6a97f254daffd22cbd3e3a62059dc3e23fdcac03b0f77cf3917eddf	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 85 (20252026) — Civil actions: service of summons.

Existing law prescribes specified methods for the service of a summons in a civil action. Under existing law, if no provision is made in statute for the service of summons, a court may direct a summons to be served in a manner that is reasonably calculated to give actual notice to the party to be served.

Version chain

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

1. 01/21/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/25/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/08/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/25/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/06/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB85 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/27/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• SB 85 Umberg Consent Calendar Second Day — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Consent Calendar 2nd — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 12–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Umberg — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-21 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2025-01-22 From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 21.
• 2025-01-29 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2025-03-25 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
• 2025-04-02 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2025-04-08 Set for hearing May 6.
• 2025-04-08 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
• 2025-05-07 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0. Page 1026.) (May 6). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-08 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-15 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 1089.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-05-15 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2025-05-29 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2025-06-24 From committee: Do pass as amended. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 24). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-06-25 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-06-26 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-06-30 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2369.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-07-01 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2025-08-21 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2025-08-25 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2253.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-02 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
• 2025-10-06 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 403, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e9798bf5-cb41-4da6-870e-b4cb6ce9a30a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).