ACR 168 California Assembly · 2025-2026 Regular Session

Relative to the California Law Revision Commission.

Summary

Existing law requires the California Law Revision Commission to study, and limits the commission to studying, topics approved by resolution of the Legislature or by statute. This measure would grant approval to the commission to continue its study of designated topics that the Legislature previously authorized or directed the commission to study and two new topics of study, as specified. The measure would require the commission, before commencing work on any project within its authorized calendar of topics, to submit a detailed description of the scope of work to the Chairs and Vice Chairs of the Assembly Committee on Judiciary and the Senate Committee on Judiciary, and any other policy committee that has jurisdiction, as specified. If a major change to the scope of work occurs during the course of the project, the measure would require the commission to submit a description of the change.

Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Mar 2026

Committee Review

Jul 2026

Assembly Passage

May 2026

Senate Passage

Jul 2026

Signed into Law

Jul 2026

Introduced Mar 26, 2026 Signed Jul 15, 2026

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What changed between versions

03/26/26 - Introduced → 07/07/26 - Enrolled · 2 edits · Jul 7, 2026

MINOR

ACR 168 transitioned from its introduced version to its enrolled (final) version after being adopted by the Assembly on May 4, 2026 and the Senate on July 2, 2026. The substantive content of the resolution - all 16 authorized study topics for the California Law Revision Commission and the requirement to submit scope-of-work descriptions to committee chairs - remained unchanged. The changes are entirely procedural and formatting: removal of the coauthor list and line numbers, addition of adoption dates, Secretary of State attestation block, and reformatting into the enrolled resolution chapter layout.

TECHNICAL

Document reformatted from introduced bill format (with line numbers, coauthor list, and digest at top) to enrolled resolution chapter format with adoption dates, Chief Clerk and Secretary of Senate notations, and a Secretary of State attestation block.

TIMELINE

Adoption dates recorded: Assembly adopted May 4, 2026; Senate adopted July 2, 2026. A blank line was added for the date the resolution was received by the Secretary of State.

Floor votes · Senate Jul 2, 2026 · Assembly May 4, 2026

How they voted

37–0

Passed · 3 other

Total votes 40

Jul 2, 2026

D Democratic30

28 Yea 2

93% Yea

R Republican10

9 Yea 1

90% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

Full legislative history

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Committee

Amendments

Jul 2, 2026

Senate · Passed

Senate Vote: pass (37-0-3)

senate

Jul 2, 2026

Lower · Passed

In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.

lower

Jul 2, 2026

Upper · Passed

Adopted and to Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0.)

upper

Jun 29, 2026

Upper · Passed

From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar.

upper

Jun 17, 2026

Upper · Passed

From committee: Be adopted, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

upper

May 13, 2026

Committee

Referred to Com. on JUD.

upper

May 5, 2026

Committee

In Senate. To Com. on RLS.

upper

May 4, 2026

Assembly · Passed

Assembly Vote: pass (72-0-7)

assembly

May 4, 2026

Lower · Passed

Adopted and to Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 4911.)

lower

Apr 29, 2026

Lower · Passed

From committee: Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 29).

lower

Apr 15, 2026

Lower · Passed

From committee: Be adopted, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

lower

Apr 6, 2026

Committee

Referred to Com. on JUD.

lower

Mar 26, 2026

Introduced

Introduced. To print.

lower

1 primary · 69 co-sponsors