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 07/01/25 - Enrolled
 01/09/25 - Introduced

 AB-223 Jury selection: acknowledgment and agreement.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 07/14/2025 09:00 PM

AB223:v97#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Assembly Bill

 No. 223

 CHAPTER 29

 An act to amend Section 232 of the Code of Civil Procedure, relating to juries. 

 [
 Approved by

 Governor
 July 14, 2025.

 Filed with

 Secretary of State
 July 14, 2025.
 ]

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 223, Pacheco.
 Jury selection: acknowledgment and agreement.

The Trial Jury Selection and Management Act requires all persons be selected for jury service at random and from sources inclusive of a representative cross section of the population of the area served by the court. Existing law requires a trial judge to examine the prospective jurors in jury trials. Existing law gives the counsel for each party, after this initial examination, the right to examine any of the prospective jurors, as specified, in order to enable counsel to intelligently exercise both peremptory challenges and challenges for cause. Existing law requires, prior to the examination of prospective trial jurors in the panel assigned for voir dire, a specified perjury acknowledgment and agreement to be obtained from the prospective jurors. Existing law requires, after the selection of the trial jury is completed, another specified acknowledgment and agreement to be obtained from
 the trial jurors.

This bill would revise the acknowledgment and agreements obtained from the jury panel prior to the examination of prospective trial jurors assigned for voir dire and after the completion of selection of trial jurors.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 NO 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 232 of the Code of Civil Procedure is amended to read:

232.

 (a) Prior to the examination of prospective trial jurors in the panel assigned for voir dire, the following perjury acknowledgment and agreement shall be obtained from the panel, which shall be acknowledged by the prospective jurors with the statement “I do”:

“Do you understand and agree, under penalty of perjury, that you will accurately and truthfully
 answer all questions about your qualifications and ability to serve as a juror in this case, and that failure to do so may result in criminal prosecution?”

(b) As soon as the selection of the trial jury is completed, the following acknowledgment and agreement shall be obtained from the trial jurors, which shall be acknowledged by the statement “I do”:

“Do you understand and agree that you will carefully consider the case being heard in this court, and
 that you will reach a verdict based only on the evidence presented to you and the instructions on the law given by the court?”