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CA AB 223

enacted

Jury selection: acknowledgment and agreement.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Quick answers

Did CA AB 223 pass?

Yes. CA AB 223 has been enacted into law as of 2025-07-14. Latest recorded action (2025-07-14): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 29, Statutes of 2025.

What is CA AB 223 about?

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. This bill would revise the acknowledgment and agreements obtained from the jury panel prior to the examination of prospective trial jurors assigned for voir dire and after the completion of selection of trial jurors.

Who sponsors CA AB 223?

Pacheco is the primary sponsor of CA AB 223.

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. This bill would revise the acknowledgment and agreements obtained from the jury panel prior to the examination of prospective trial jurors assigned for voir dire and after the completion of selection of trial jurors.

Introduced
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Latest action
2025-07-14 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 29, Statutes of 2025.
Bill type
bill
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Pachecoauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-01-09

    Read first time. To print.

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  2. 2025-01-10

    From printer. May be heard in committee February 9.

  3. 2025-02-03

    Referred to Com. on JUD.

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  4. 2025-03-04

    From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (March 4).

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  5. 2025-03-05

    Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.

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  6. 2025-03-10

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 572.)

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  7. 2025-03-11

    In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

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  8. 2025-05-07

    Referred to Coms. on JUD. and PUB. S.

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  9. 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.

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  10. 2025-06-24

    From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 24).

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  11. 2025-06-25

    Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.

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  12. 2025-06-27

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1810.).

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  13. 2025-06-27

    In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.

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  14. 2025-07-03

    Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.

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  15. 2025-07-14

    Approved by the Governor.

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  16. 2025-07-14

    Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 29, Statutes of 2025.

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Versions

Documents

Votes

  • Do pass. To Consent Calendar.

    2025-03-04 · pass · 12-0

    Member-level votes (12)
    • Bryan: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Essayli: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • Chen: yes
    • Stefani: yes

  • AB 223 Pacheco Consent Calendar Second Day

    2025-03-10 · pass · 72-0

    Member-level votes (80)
    • Gipson: yes
    • Ahrens: yes
    • Castillo: yes
    • Alanis: yes
    • Lee: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Schiavo: yes
    • Chen: yes
    • Irwin: yes
    • Bonta: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Rogers: yes
    • Alvarez: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Rivas: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Ransom: yes
    • Bennett: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Petrie-Norris: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Wallis: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Blanca Rubio: yes
    • Celeste Rodriguez: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Quirk-Silva: yes
    • Carrillo: yes
    • Davies: yes
    • Tangipa: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Hadwick: yes
    • Nguyen: yes
    • Macedo: yes
    • Ortega: yes
    • Ellis: yes
    • Addis: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Schultz: yes
    • Bains: yes
    • Essayli: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Patterson: yes
    • Boerner: yes
    • Gabriel: yes
    • Michelle Rodriguez: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Lackey: yes
    • McKinnor: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • Flora: yes
    • Hoover: yes
    • DeMaio: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Jeff Gonzalez: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Berman: yes
    • Soria: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Valencia: other
    • Ward: other
    • Ramos: other
    • Bryan: other
    • Gallagher: other
    • Lowenthal: other
    • Muratsuchi: other
    • Krell: other

  • Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar

    2025-06-17 · pass · 12-0

    Member-level votes (13)
    • Caballero: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Niello: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Valladares: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Stern: yes
    • Ashby: other

  • Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar

    2025-06-24 · pass · 6-0

    Member-level votes (6)
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Pérez: yes

  • Consent Calendar 2nd

    2025-06-27 · pass · 38-0

    Member-level votes (40)
    • Ashby: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Dahle: yes
    • Alvarado-Gil: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • Grove: yes
    • Strickland: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Limón: yes
    • Choi: yes
    • McGuire: yes
    • Hurtado: yes
    • Valladares: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Pérez: yes
    • Niello: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Rubio: yes
    • Becker: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Blakespear: yes
    • Archuleta: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Stern: yes
    • McNerney: yes
    • Cervantes: yes
    • Ochoa Bogh: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Jones: other
    • Reyes: other

Related bills

No related bills recorded for this bill.

Official source

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB223

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