Jay Obernolte
- Republican
Author
Existing law governs discovery in civil actions, and allows a party to obtain discovery from another party through written interrogatories and requests for admission, among others. Under existing law, each response by the responding party to these discovery requests is required to include the same number or letter, and be in the same sequence, as the corresponding discovery request, as specified, but is not required to repeat the text of the particular discovery request. In order to facilitate the discovery process, this bill would, upon request in one of the aforementioned discovery methods, require a party to provide the requesting party with the document propounding or responding to the discovery request in electronic format within 3 court days of the request, except as specified. If a responding party requests and receives a discovery request in electronic format, the bill would require the responding party to include the text of the interrogatory immediately preceding any response. The bill would also provide that a party may provide the requested electronic format in any format, and may transmit the document by any method, as agreed upon by the parties, except as specified.
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 190, Statutes of 2019.
Approved by the Governor.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2661.).
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2052.).
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 9 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 25).
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD.
In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1260.)
Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 2).
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
Read first time.
From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
Introduced. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
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| AB1349 | HTML |
| 02/22/19 - Introduced | |
| 04/08/19 - Amended Assembly | |
| 06/14/19 - Amended Senate | |
| 08/13/19 - Enrolled | |
| 08/30/19 - Chaptered |
| Document | Format |
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