Bill Text: CA SB768 | 2025-2026 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Courts: data reporting.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Failed) 2026-02-02 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB768 Detail]
Download: California-2025-SB768-Amended.html
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Amended
IN
Senate
April 10, 2025 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 768
| Introduced by Senator Durazo |
February 21, 2025 |
An act to add Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 156) to Title 1 of Part 1 of the Code of Civil Procedure, relating to evictions. Section 68652 to the Government Code, relating to courts.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 768, as amended, Durazo.
Judicial Council: eviction data. Courts: data reporting.
Existing law, the Sargent Shriver Civil Counsel Act, requires legal counsel to be appointed to represent low-income parties in civil matters involving critical issues affecting basic human needs in courts selected by the Judicial Council. The act requires the Judicial Council to develop one or more programs to provide competitive grants to provide legal counsel to low-income persons who require legal services in civil matters involving specific types of civil matters, including, among others, housing-related matters, probate conservatorships, guardianships, and domestic violence and civil harassment restraining orders. Existing law requires the Judicial Council to consider various factors, including, among others, the unmet need for legal services in the geographic area to be served, in selecting and
renewing participating programs. Existing law requires program applicants to, among other things, describe how the program would be administered and the means by which the program would serve the particular needs of the community, such as by providing representation to limited-English-speaking clients.
This bill would require courts to provide the Judicial Council each month with information regarding unlawful detainer cases, as specified, aggregated by ZIP Code. The bill would require the Judicial Council to make that information publicly available online every 4 months.
Existing law requires the Judicial Council to create rules and forms and to issue reports on certain subjects.
This bill would require the Judicial Council to collect data on evictions, as specified, make that data publicly available online, and report that data to the Legislature.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 68652 is added to the Government Code, to read:68652.
(a) Each court shall report to the Judicial Council every month the total number of each of the following data points for unlawful detainer cases, aggregated by the ZIP Code of the premises in the lawsuit:(1) Cases filed each month.
(2) Cases in which defendants were represented by counsel at case resolution, including, but not limited to, at the point of settlement or the point when a decision was made at trial.
(3) Cases in which landlords were represented by counsel at case resolution, including, but not limited to, at the point of settlement or when a decision was made at trial.
(4) Cases that were subject to default, stipulated, or other types of pretrial judgments.
(5) Cases that went to trial, and of those cases that went to trial, how many were a bench trial and how many were a jury trial.
(6) Cases that were dismissed before trial at the plaintiff’s request.
(7) Cases that resulted in a judgment for the plaintiff or for the defendant.
(b) The data points provided to the Judicial Council pursuant to subdivision (a) shall only pertain to unlawful detainer cases filed on or after January 1, 2026.
(c) Every four months, the Judicial Council shall post all information received pursuant to subdivision
(a) in a publicly available electronic spreadsheet that may be downloaded from its internet website.
The Judicial Council shall collect information from the trial courts on the number of eviction proceedings initiated, the number of tenants represented by counsel, and the number of landlords represented by counsel. The Judicial Council shall make this data publicly available online yearly, and shall ensure that it can be viewed by geographic region. The Judicial Council shall annually report this data to the Legislature commencing July 1, 2026.
