republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/ab-1580.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Enforcement of money judgments: examination."
description: "Existing law authorizes a judgment creditor seeking to enforce a money judgment to apply to the court for an order requiring the judgment debtor to appear for an examination to furnish information to aid in enforcement of the money judgment. Existing law requires a corporation, partnership, association, trust, limited liability company, or other organization served with an order to appear for an examination to designate one or more persons who are familiar with its property and debts to appear, unless the order requires the appearance of a specified person, in which case that person shall appear."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 1580"
citation: "California AB 1580 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Enforcement of money judgments: examination."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Judiciary"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-03-08"
last_action: "2021-06-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0c6adf02-5c46-4603-8af5-b27c2e52267a"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1580"
source_hash: "37335560a14f9e8a87412cb4e219eb00d8dcefad1bb7f3c45f65689e7ed24127"
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 1580 (20212022) — Enforcement of money judgments: examination.

Existing law authorizes a judgment creditor seeking to enforce a money judgment to apply to the court for an order requiring the judgment debtor to appear for an examination to furnish information to aid in enforcement of the money judgment. Existing law requires a corporation, partnership, association, trust, limited liability company, or other organization served with an order to appear for an examination to designate one or more persons who are familiar with its property and debts to appear, unless the order requires the appearance of a specified person, in which case that person shall appear.

## Version chain

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

1. **03/08/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1580&version=20210AB158099INT)
2. **03/22/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1580&version=20210AB158098AMD)
3. **04/05/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1580&version=20210AB158097AMD)
4. **06/28/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1580&version=20210AB158095CHP)
5. **AB1580** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1580)
6. **06/18/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1580&version=20210AB158096ENR)

## Votes

- Consent Calendar AB1580 JUD. — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1580 JUD. Consent Calendar Second Day — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **11–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Committee on Judiciary — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-08** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2021-03-09** From printer. May be heard in committee April 8.
- **2021-03-11** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-22** 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-1, reading-2`
- **2021-03-23** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-05** 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-1, reading-2`
- **2021-04-06** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-13** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 13). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-14** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-04-19** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1071.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-04-19** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2021-05-12** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-08** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 8). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-09** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-06-17** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1544.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-06-17** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2021-06-22** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:15 p.m.
- **2021-06-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 30, Statutes of 2021. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0c6adf02-5c46-4603-8af5-b27c2e52267a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).