BILL NUMBER: AB 1553	CHAPTERED  09/14/06

	CHAPTER  266
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 14, 2006
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 14, 2006
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 16, 2006
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  APRIL 11, 2005

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Evans

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2005

   An act to add Section 1281.12 to the Code of Civil Procedure,
relating to arbitration.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1553, Evans  Arbitration.
   Existing law provides that written agreements to submit
controversies to arbitration are valid and enforceable.
   This bill would provide, if an arbitration agreement requires that
arbitration of a controversy be demanded or initiated within a
period of time, the commencement of a civil action within that period
of time shall toll the applicable time limitations contained in the
arbitration agreement with respect to that controversy from the date
the civil action is commenced until 30 days after a final
determination by the court that the controversy must be arbitrated,
or 30 days after the final termination of the civil action, whichever
date occurs first.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 1281.12 is added to the Code of Civil
Procedure, immediately following Section 1281.1, to read:
   1281.12.  If an arbitration agreement requires that arbitration of
a controversy be demanded or initiated by a party to the arbitration
agreement within a period of time, the commencement of a civil
action by that party based upon that controversy, within that period
of time, shall toll the applicable time limitations contained in the
arbitration agreement with respect to that controversy, from the date
the civil action is commenced until 30 days after a final
determination by the court that the party is required to arbitrate
the controversy, or 30 days after the final termination of the civil
action that was commenced and initiated the tolling, whichever date
occurs first.