Roger Dickinson
- Democratic
Author
Existing law provides for the restructuring of the trial court system, including the abolition of municipal courts, the unification of those courts with superior courts, and state funding of trial courts. Under existing law, a statutory reference to a judicial district that relates to a municipal court in a county in which unification has occurred generally means the county, as specified. This bill would modify provisions of law to reflect trial court restructuring. As part of these modifications, this bill would delete obsolete references to municipal courts and would specify the jurisdiction of a writ petition relating to a small claims case in the unified state court system. Further, this bill would revise various provisions to reflect the state's responsibility for trial court funding, including provisions related to jury fees in civil cases, payment of expert witnesses, interpreters, and translators in criminal actions, juvenile proceedings, and certain civil actions. This bill would also delete obsolete references to judicial districts, counties, and county entities following trial court restructuring. Additionally, this bill would prescribe the rules applying to the acceptance of money by superior courts to reflect trial court restructuring. Existing law also provides for the forfeiture of the undertaking of bail when a defendant fails to appear in court. Under existing law, a court must enter a summary judgment against the bondsman named in the bail bond within 180 days of the date of forfeiture or within 180 days of the date of mailing of the notice, regardless of the amount of the bail. This bill would provide that an appeal from an order of the superior court on a motion to vacate a bail forfeiture shall be to the court of appeal as an unlimited civil case if the amount in controversy exceeds $25,000, and to the appellate division of the superior court as a limited civil case if the amount in controversy does not exceed $25,000, except as specified.
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 470, Statutes of 2012.
Approved by the Governor.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4781.).
Ordered to special consent calendar.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 3).
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 4830.)
Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (May 8).
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended.
Read second time and amended.
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (March 20).
From printer. May be heard in committee February 23.
Read first time. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
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| AB1529 | HTML |
| 01/23/12 - Introduced | |
| 03/21/12 - Amended Assembly | |
| 05/03/12 - Amended Assembly | |
| 08/29/12 - Enrolled | |
| 09/23/12 - Chaptered |
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