Bill Text: CA SB1262 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Courts: indexes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2022-06-28 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. [SB1262 Detail]

Download: California-2021-SB1262-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 1262

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Introduced by Senator Bradford

February 17, 2022

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An act to amend Section 69842 of the Government Code, relating to courts.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 1262, as introduced, Bradford. Courts: indexes.

Existing law requires a clerk of the superior court to keep an index of any action or proceeding filed in the court. Existing law requires a separate index for plaintiffs and defendants in civil actions and for defendants in criminal actions.

This bill would require publicly accessible electronic indexes of defendants in criminal cases to permit searches and filtering of results based on a defendant’s driver’s license number or date of birth, or both.

Digest Key

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

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Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 Section 69842 of the Government Code is amended to read:

69842.

 The clerk of the superior court shall keep such indexes as will insure indexes to ensure ready reference to any action or proceeding filed in the court. There shall be separate indexes of plaintiffs and defendants in civil actions and of defendants in criminal actions. The name of each plaintiff and defendant shall be indexed and there shall appear opposite each name indexed the number of the action or proceeding and the name or names of the adverse litigant or litigants. Publicly accessible electronic indexes of defendants in criminal cases shall permit searches and filtering of results based on a defendant’s driver’s license number or date of birth, or both.