BILL NUMBER: SB 1429	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Evans

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act to amend Section 1719 of the Code of Civil Procedure,
relating to judgments.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1429, as introduced, Evans. Judgments: foreign-country money
judgments.
   The Uniform Foreign-Country Money Judgments Recognition Act
provides a procedure for recognition of a foreign-country judgment
that grants or denies recovery of a sum of money and that is final,
conclusive, and enforceable under the law of the foreign country
where rendered, with specified exceptions. If a court finds that the
foreign-country judgment is entitled to recognition, then the
judgment is both conclusive between the parties and enforceable in
California, as specified.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these
provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 1719 of the Code of Civil Procedure is amended
to read:
   1719.  If the court in a proceeding under Section 1718 finds that
the foreign-country judgment is entitled to recognition under this
chapter then, to the extent that the foreign-country judgment grants
or denies recovery of a sum of money, the foreign-country judgment is
both  of the following  :
   (a) Conclusive between the parties to the same extent as the
judgment of a sister state entitled to full faith and credit in this
state would be conclusive.
   (b) Enforceable in the same manner and to the same extent as a
judgment rendered in this state.