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type: "Bill"
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title: "Marriage: solemnization."
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description: "Existing law enumerates persons who are authorized to solemnize a marriage, including judges and retired judges. Existing law prohibits a judge, elected official, or city clerk from accepting compensation for solemnizing a marriage. Existing law makes it a misdemeanor for a judge, justice, commissioner, or assistant commissioner of a court of this state to accept money or another thing of value for performing a marriage, but excepts the acceptance of a fee to perform a marriage on Saturday, Sunday, or a legal holiday."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20172018"
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identifier: "AB 430"
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citation: "California AB 430 (20172018)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Marriage: solemnization."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Irwin"]
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version_count: 5
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action_count: 16
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vote_count: 0
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first_action: "2017-02-13"
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last_action: "2017-07-10"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6fefcfd1-68da-4311-bf6a-7d1e80917c53"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB430"
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source_hash: "7d53217947226babf4df085d27ee1a5b5b9db46e11d7969b03c62deffd28eea6"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 430 (20172018) — Marriage: solemnization.
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Existing law enumerates persons who are authorized to solemnize a marriage, including judges and retired judges. Existing law prohibits a judge, elected official, or city clerk from accepting compensation for solemnizing a marriage. Existing law makes it a misdemeanor for a judge, justice, commissioner, or assistant commissioner of a court of this state to accept money or another thing of value for performing a marriage, but excepts the acceptance of a fee to perform a marriage on Saturday, Sunday, or a legal holiday.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/13/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB430&version=20170AB43099INT)
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2. **03/28/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB430&version=20170AB43098AMD)
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3. **07/10/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB430&version=20170AB43096CHP)
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4. **AB430** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB430)
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5. **06/21/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB430&version=20170AB43097ENR)
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## Sponsors
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- Irwin — primary (person)
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- Low — author (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2017-02-13** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2017-02-14** From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
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- **2017-02-21** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
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- **2017-03-27** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (March 21). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
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- **2017-03-28** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
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- **2017-03-29** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2017-04-03** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 874.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2017-04-03** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2017-05-10** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
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- **2017-06-13** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 13). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2017-06-14** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2017-06-19** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 1612.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2017-06-20** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
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- **2017-06-26** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
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- **2017-07-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2017-07-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 42, Statutes of 2017.
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6fefcfd1-68da-4311-bf6a-7d1e80917c53`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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