Malcolm Maclachlan in the Daily Journal updates the status of Assembly Bill 3366, which would amend Government Code section 68115 to free California’s Chief Justice to issue — on their own, instead of at the request of individual superior courts — statewide emergency orders concerning trial court operations, such as extending various statutory deadlines.
The bill overwhelmingly passed the Assembly last month. The article reports that yesterday the bill unanimously passed the Senate’s Judiciary Committee and is now headed to the Appropriations Committee.
AB 3366 would change the law immediately as an urgency statute because of, as the bill states, the need “to address the ongoing COVID-19 public health emergency at the earliest possible time by providing the necessary authority to the Chief Justice to modify court operations on a statewide or multicounty basis.”
Related:
“Bill speeding through Legislature would give chief justice new statewide emergency powers”
“Bill aims to give chief justice more power in any multi-county emergency”
