20250SB__116097AMD INTRODUCED 2026-02-18 AMENDED_SENATE 2026-03-23 AMENDED_ASSEMBLY 2026-06-18 2025 SB AMD Introduced by Senator Durazo LEAD_AUTHOR SENATE Durazo

An act to add

Chapter 2.15 (commencing with

Section 68652) to Title of the Government Code, relating to courts. courts Judicial Council: eviction data reporting. The California Constitution establishes the Judicial Council, and requires the Judicial Council to adopt rules for court administration, practice, and procedure, and to undertake certain responsibilities with regard to court facilities. Existing law regulates the terms and conditions of residential tenancies.

Existing law, after a tenant has continuously and lawfully occupied a residential real property for months, prohibits the owner of the residential real property from terminating the tenancy without just cause and requires that just cause to be stated in the written notice to terminate tenancy. Under existing law, a tenant is guilty of unlawful detainer if the tenant continues to possess the property without permission of the landlord after the tenant defaults on rent, among other reasons.

This bill would, by July 1, 2027, require the Judicial Council to assess the timeline by which each county court system has the ability to submit specified data points regarding unlawful detainer cases to the Judicial Council utilizing the Judicial Branch Statistical Information System (JBSIS). The bill would, beginning January 1, 2028, require each county court system identified by the Judicial Council as able to report to the Judicial Council utilizing JBSIS to submit the specified data points to the Judicial Council on a quarterly basis, aggregated by ZIP Code.

The bill would require, on or before January 1, 2029, all county court systems to report the identified data points to the Judicial Council utilizing JBSIS on a quarterly basis, aggregated by ZIP Code of the premises that is the subject of the action. The bill would require, beginning January 1, 2029, and annually thereafter, the Judicial Council to format the information received pursuant to the provisions above in an electronic spreadsheet, as specified, and to publicly post the spreadsheet on its internet website.

Existing law, the Sargent Shriver Civil Counsel Act, requires legal counsel to be appointed to represent low-income parties in civil matters involving critical issues affecting basic human needs in courts selected by the Judicial Council. The act requires the Judicial Council to develop one or more programs to provide competitive grants to provide legal counsel to low-income persons who require legal services in specific types of civil matters, including, among others, housing-related matters, probate conservatorships, guardianships, and domestic violence and civil harassment restraining orders.

Existing law requires the Judicial Council to consider various factors, including, among others, the unmet need for legal services in the geographic area to be served, in selecting and renewing participating programs.

Existing law requires program applicants to, among other things, describe how the program would be administered and the means by which the program would serve the particular needs of the community, such as by providing representation to limited-English-speaking clients.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>This bill would require courts to provide the Judicial Council, every month, with information regarding unlawful detainer cases, as specified, aggregated by ZIP Code.

The bill would require the Judicial Council to format the information every months into an electronic spreadsheet and post the spreadsheet on its internet website.</xhtml:p>"?> MAJORITY NO YES NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Chapter 2.15 (commencing with

Section 68652) is added to Title of the Government Code , immediately following

Chapter 2.1 (commencing with

Section 68650) , to read: 2.15. Eviction Proceedings 68652. (

a) By July 1, 2027, the Judicial Council shall assess the timeline by which each county court system shall have the ability to submit the following data points to the Judicial Council for unlawful detainer cases utilizing the Judicial Branch Statistical Information System (JBSIS):

(1) Cases filed each month.

(2) Cases that were subject to default, stipulated, and other types of pretrial and posttrial judgments.

(3) Cases that were dismissed at the plaintiff’s request or by order of the court. (b)

(1) Beginning January 1, 2028, county court systems identified by the Judicial Council as able to report to the Judicial Council utilizing JBSIS shall submit the data points specified in subdivision (

a) on a quarterly basis, aggregated by ZIP Code of the premises that is the subject of the action.

(2) On or before January 1, 2029, all county court systems shall report the data points specified in subdivision (

a) to the Judicial Council utilizing JBSIS on a quarterly basis, aggregated by ZIP Code of the premises that is the subject of the action. (

c) Beginning January 1, 2029, and annually thereafter, the Judicial Council shall format the information received pursuant to subdivision (

b) in an electronic spreadsheet and shall publicly post the spreadsheet on its internet website. The data shall be formatted as follows:

(1) The data in the electronic spreadsheet shall be aggregated by ZIP Code.

(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), if any county had an average of or fewer unlawful detainer case filings during the previous five fiscal years, that county’s data shall only be provided in the electronic spreadsheet at the county level. <caml:Num>SECTION 1.</caml:Num><caml:ActionLine action="IS_ADDED" xlink:href="urn:caml:codes:GOV:caml#xpointer(%2Fcaml%3ALawDoc%2Fcaml%3ACode%2Fcaml%3ALawHeading%5B%40type%3D'TITLE'%20and%20caml%3ANum%3D'8.'%5D%2Fcaml%3ALawHeading%5B%40type%3D'CHAPTER'%20and%20caml%3ANum%3D'2.15.'%5D)" xlink:label="fractionType: LAW_SPREAD||commencingWith: 68652" xlink:type="locator">Chapter 2.15 (commencing with

Section 68652) is added to Title of the <caml:DocName>Government Code</caml:DocName>, <caml:Positioning>immediately following

Chapter 2.1</caml:Positioning>, to read:</caml:ActionLine><caml:Fragment><caml:LawHeading id="id_C741D493-0552-46D3-B0D4-40B2DC66D44A" type="CHAPTER"><caml:Num>2.15.</caml:Num><caml:LawHeadingVersion id="id_0F88248C-76A6-4AF6-8A23-95CB76C4F699"><caml:LawHeadingText>Eviction Proceedings</caml:LawHeadingText></caml:LawHeadingVersion><caml:LawSection id="id_4AE9E64D-82F0-4A88-A793-654F42735420"><caml:Num>68652.</caml:Num><caml:LawSectionVersion id="id_ACF734CA-1A30-4895-B681-DE6068842A56"><caml:Content><xhtml:p>(a)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>Each court shall report to the Judicial Council every month the total number of each of the following data points for unlawful detainer cases, aggregated by the ZIP Code of the premises in the lawsuit:</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(1)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>Cases filed each month.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(2)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>Cases that were subject to default, stipulated, or other types of pretrial judgments already being tracked by the Judicial Council.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(3)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>Cases that went to trial and, of those cases that went to trial, how many were a bench trial and how many were a jury trial.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(4)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>Cases that were dismissed before trial at the plaintiff’s request.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(b)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>The data points provided to the Judicial Council pursuant to subdivision (

a) shall only pertain to unlawful detainer cases filed on or after January 1, 2027.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(c)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>Every four months, the Judicial Council shall format all information received pursuant to subdivision (

a) in an electronic spreadsheet and publicly post the spreadsheet on its internet website.</xhtml:p></caml:Content></caml:LawSectionVersion></caml:LawSection></caml:LawHeading></caml:Fragment></caml:BillSection>"?>