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type: "Bill"
title: "Service of process."
description: "Under existing law, if a copy of a summons and complaint cannot with reasonable diligence be personally delivered to the person to be served, as specified, a summons and complaint may be served by leaving a copy with certain people at the person's dwelling house, usual place of abode, usual place of business, or usual mailing address, other than a United States Postal Service box, and mailing a copy of the summons and complaint by first-class mail to the place where a copy was left."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 1093"
citation: "California AB 1093 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Service of process."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chen"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-17"
last_action: "2017-07-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eb4fb358-84c1-4622-beac-0d24314996fb"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1093"
source_hash: "a9ef1c170364aa1843f32585772e04fddeedf09032236b6350497d5d986fa7b6"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---
# California AB 1093 (20172018) — Service of process.
Under existing law, if a copy of a summons and complaint cannot with reasonable diligence be personally delivered to the person to be served, as specified, a summons and complaint may be served by leaving a copy with certain people at the person's dwelling house, usual place of abode, usual place of business, or usual mailing address, other than a United States Postal Service box, and mailing a copy of the summons and complaint by first-class mail to the place where a copy was left.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/17/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1093&version=20170AB109399INT)
2. **04/17/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1093&version=20170AB109398AMD)
3. **05/11/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1093&version=20170AB109397AMD)
4. **07/24/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1093&version=20170AB109395CHP)
5. **AB1093** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1093)
6. **07/12/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1093&version=20170AB109396ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **60** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **400** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Chen — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-02-17** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2017-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- **2017-03-06** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-17** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-04-18** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2017-05-01** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2017-05-10** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 9). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2017-05-11** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
- **2017-05-15** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-05-18** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 1620.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-05-18** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2017-06-01** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-28** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 27). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-06-29** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-07-10** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1932.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-07-11** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2017-07-14** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2017-07-24** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-07-24** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 129, Statutes of 2017.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eb4fb358-84c1-4622-beac-0d24314996fb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).