republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/ab-223.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Jury selection: acknowledgment and agreement."
description: "The Trial Jury Selection and Management Act requires all persons be selected for jury service at random and from sources inclusive of a representative cross section of the population of the area served by the court. Existing law requires a trial judge to examine the prospective jurors in jury trials. Existing law gives the counsel for each party, after this initial examination, the right to examine any of the prospective jurors, as specified, in order to enable counsel to intelligently exercise both peremptory challenges and challenges for cause. Existing law requires, prior to the examination of prospective trial jurors in the panel assigned for voir dire, a specified perjury acknowledgment and agreement to be obtained from the prospective jurors. Existing law requires, after the selection of the trial jury is completed, another specified acknowledgment and agreement to be obtained from the trial jurors."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "AB 223"
citation: "California AB 223 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Juryselection", "acknowledgmentandagreement"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pacheco"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-01-09"
last_action: "2025-07-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7560c600-cef7-4a83-887c-fa7756f476ce"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB223"
source_hash: "a7f53367e0c77c8e50182d9f7e5c931c004426023b204a0b4a87ed405c9d35d7"
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 223 (20252026) — Jury selection: acknowledgment and agreement.

The Trial Jury Selection and Management Act requires all persons be selected for jury service at random and from sources inclusive of a representative cross section of the population of the area served by the court. Existing law requires a trial judge to examine the prospective jurors in jury trials. Existing law gives the counsel for each party, after this initial examination, the right to examine any of the prospective jurors, as specified, in order to enable counsel to intelligently exercise both peremptory challenges and challenges for cause. Existing law requires, prior to the examination of prospective trial jurors in the panel assigned for voir dire, a specified perjury acknowledgment and agreement to be obtained from the prospective jurors. Existing law requires, after the selection of the trial jury is completed, another specified acknowledgment and agreement to be obtained from the trial jurors.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/09/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB223&version=20250AB22399INT)
2. **07/14/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB223&version=20250AB22397CHP)
3. **AB223** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB223)
4. **07/01/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB223&version=20250AB22398ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 223 Pacheco Consent Calendar Second Day — **72–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **12–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Pacheco — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-09** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2025-01-10** From printer. May be heard in committee February 9.
- **2025-02-03** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (March 4). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-05** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-03-10** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 572.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-03-11** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-07** Referred to Coms. on JUD. and PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-17** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-24** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 24). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-25** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-06-27** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1810.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-06-27** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2025-07-03** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
- **2025-07-14** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-07-14** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 29, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7560c600-cef7-4a83-887c-fa7756f476ce`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).