republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/sb-66.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Civil discovery."
description: "Existing law, the Civil Discovery Act, requires each party that has appeared in a civil action, except specified actions, to provide certain initial disclosures to the other parties to the action within 60 days of a demand by any party to the action unless modified by the stipulation of the parties. Existing law requires a party making initial disclosures of persons or records to additionally disclose persons or records that are relevant to the subject matter of the action, except as specified, and to disclose information and records regarding insurance policies or contracts that would make a person or insurance company liable to satisfy a judgment. Existing law requires initial disclosures to be verified via the written declaration of the party or the party's authorized representative, or signed by the party's counsel. Existing law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2027, and replaces them with prior law requiring initial disclosures to be made upon order of the court following the stipulation of the parties."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "SB 66"
citation: "California SB 66 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Civildiscovery"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Umberg"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-01-13"
last_action: "2025-07-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/665cb056-ffc1-4ef5-bdc7-b9fd5485f7f9"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB66"
source_hash: "872d2556207d3688c6c0cc189c90ecb540582165037bf13f59860b7d33df6cc4"
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 SB 66 (20252026) — Civil discovery.

Existing law, the Civil Discovery Act, requires each party that has appeared in a civil action, except specified actions, to provide certain initial disclosures to the other parties to the action within 60 days of a demand by any party to the action unless modified by the stipulation of the parties. Existing law requires a party making initial disclosures of persons or records to additionally disclose persons or records that are relevant to the subject matter of the action, except as specified, and to disclose information and records regarding insurance policies or contracts that would make a person or insurance company liable to satisfy a judgment. Existing law requires initial disclosures to be verified via the written declaration of the party or the party's authorized representative, or signed by the party's counsel. Existing law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2027, and replaces them with prior law requiring initial disclosures to be made upon order of the court following the stipulation of the parties.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/13/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB66&version=20250SB6699INT)
2. **07/14/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB66&version=20250SB6697CHP)
3. **SB66** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB66)
4. **06/25/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB66&version=20250SB6698ENR)

## Votes

- Consent Calendar 2nd — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **13–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 66 Umberg Consent Calendar Second Day — **71–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **11–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Umberg — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-13** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-01-14** From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 13.
- **2025-01-29** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-13** Set for hearing April 1.
- **2025-04-02** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0. Page 610.) (April 1). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-04-10** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 750.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-04-10** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-12** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-17** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 17). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-18** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-06-23** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 2247.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-06-23** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2025-07-03** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:15 a.m.
- **2025-07-14** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-07-14** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 50, 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/665cb056-ffc1-4ef5-bdc7-b9fd5485f7f9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).