Bill Text: CA AB1908 | 2025-2026 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Settlement agreements: victims’ compensation funding.

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Engrossed) 2026-06-03 - From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. [AB1908 Detail]

Download: California-2025-AB1908-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 1908

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Introduced by Assembly Member McKinnor

February 12, 2026

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An act to amend Section 340 of the Code of Civil Procedure, relating to civil actions.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1908, as introduced, McKinnor. Civil actions: statute of limitations.

Existing law imposes various time limits for the commencement of civil actions other than for the recovery of real property, as specified. Under existing law, a civil action for relief on specified grounds, including libel and slander, must be commenced within one year.

This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to the latter provision.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 340 of the Code of Civil Procedure is amended to read:

340.

 Within one year:

(a) An action upon a statute for a penalty or forfeiture, if the action is given to an individual, or to an individual and the state, except if the statute imposing it prescribes a different limitation.

(b) An action upon a statute for a forfeiture or penalty to the people of this state.

(c) An action for libel, slander, false imprisonment, seduction of a person below the age of legal consent, or by a depositor against a bank for the payment of a forged or raised check, or a check that bears a forged or unauthorized endorsement, or against any person who boards or feeds an animal or fowl or who engages in the practice of veterinary medicine as defined in Section 4826 of the Business and Professions Code, for that person’s neglect resulting in injury or death to an animal or fowl in the course of boarding or feeding the animal or fowl or in the course of the practice of veterinary medicine on that animal or fowl.

(d) An action against an officer to recover damages for the seizure of any property for a statutory forfeiture to the state, or for the detention of, or injury to property so seized, or for damages done to any person in making that seizure.

(e) An action by a good faith improver for relief under Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 871.1) of Title 10 of Part 2. The time begins to run from the date upon which the good faith improver discovers that the good faith improver is not the owner of the land upon on which the improvements have been made.