Section 2029.390 is operative on January 1, 2009. The remainder of this article is operative on January 1, 2010.
§ 2029.900.Operative date
Title 4. Civil Discovery Act · Chapter 12. Discovery in Action Pending Outside California · Article 1. Interstate and International Depositions and Discovery Act · Enacted 2008 · no amendments on record · Last verified July 29, 2026
In one sentenceSection 2029.900 sets January 1, 2009 as the operative date for the Judicial Council forms provision and January 1, 2010 as the operative date for the rest of the article.
Full Text of § 2029.900
Plain-English Summary
Rolling out a new discovery framework takes some lead time, and this section staggers when different pieces of the article take effect. The provision requiring the Judicial Council to prepare application and subpoena forms becomes operative first, on January 1, 2009, giving the Judicial Council a head start before the rest of the article kicks in.
Everything else in the article becomes operative a year later, on January 1, 2010. That gap exists for a practical reason: the clerk-issuance and attorney-issuance procedures depend on having standardized forms already in place, so delaying the operative date for the substantive provisions gave the Judicial Council time to finish the forms the rest of the article assumes exist.
Frequently Asked Questions
When did the Judicial Council forms requirement become operative?
January 1, 2009.
When did the rest of the Interstate and International Depositions and Discovery Act become operative?
January 1, 2010.
Why does the forms provision have an earlier operative date than the rest of the article?
So the Judicial Council could finish the required application and subpoena forms before the subpoena-issuance procedures that depend on those forms took effect.
Amendment History
(Added by Stats.2008, c. 231 (A.B.2193), § 3, operative Jan. 1, 2010.)
Source & verification. Section text is reproduced verbatim from
the West's Annotated California Codes / Thomson Reuters. Enacted by the California Legislature.
Last verified July 29, 2026.
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