BILL ANALYSIS
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CONSENT
Bill No: SB 1371
Author: Morrow (R)
Amended: As introduced
Vote: 21
SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE : 7-0, 3/19/02
AYES: Escutia, Ackerman, Haynes, Kuehl, O'Connell, Peace,
Sher
SUBJECT : Court reporting
SOURCE : California Law Revision Commission
DIGEST : This bill consolidates two court reporting
statutes, clarifies that a transcript in longhand is to be
provided to a nonparty if he or she is entitled to receive
the transcript whether or not he or she was entitled to
attend the proceeding, and makes other technical
nonsubstantive changes to the court reporting statutes.
(NOTE: This bill is part of a package of bills sponsored
by the California Law Revision Commission to clean up the
codes after trial court unification.)
ANALYSIS : Existing law governs the use of a court
reporter in an unlimited civil case or felony case. In
these cases, a shorthand reporter must be used on order of
the court, at the request of the district attorney or the
attorney for the defendant in a felony case.
Existing law governs the use of a court reporter in a
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limited civil case or a misdemeanor or infraction case. In
these cases, a shorthand reporter must be used upon order
of the court.
This bill consolidates these two statutes, by broadening
Section 269(a) of the Code of Civil Procedure to make it
applicable to all limited and unlimited civil cases,
felony, misdemeanor and infraction cases and eliminating
Section 274c of the Code of Civil Procedure.
The bill makes other technical nonsubstantive changes.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: No
Local: No
SUPPORT : (Verified 3/20/02)
California Law Revision Commission (source)
California Court Reporters Association
ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT : According to the author's office,
the California Law Revision Commission was charged by the
Legislature to examine the statutes affected by the trial
court unification law, enacted in 1996. In its 1998
report, Trial Court Unification: Revision of Codes, 28 Cal.
L. Revision Comm'n Reports 51, 86, the Commission
recommended further study of the role of court reporters in
a county in which the courts have unified. This bill, a
result of that recommendation, consolidates duplicative
provisions relating to court reporters, reorganize others,
and delete references in the Government Code to court
reporters used in municipal courts (which have been
eliminated by trial court unification).
RJG:cm 3/20/02 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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