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Meeting Name: Judicial Council Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 10/24/2025 10:10 AM Minutes status: Draft  
Meeting location: Videoconference
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Meeting video: eComment: Not available  
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    CLOSED SESSION (RULE 10.6(b))—PLANNING, PERSONNEL, AND DISCUSSION PROTECTED BY THE ATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGE Not available
    OPEN SESSION (RULE 10.6(a))—MEETING AGENDA Not available
    Attendance Not available
    Council Members Not available
    Call to Order Video Video
    Public Comment Video Video
    Chief Justice’s Report Video Video
    Administrative Director’s Report Video Video
25-004  Information Only (no action required)Administrative Director’s Report Not available
    CONSENT AGENDA Video Video
    Approval of the Consent Agenda Not available
25-009  MinutesMinutes of July 18, 2025, Judicial Council Meeting Not available
25-163  Other ProposalEqual Access Fund | Distribution of Funds for CARE Act Legal Representation (Action Required) Not available
25-164  Other ProposalEqual Access Fund | Distribution of Funds for IOLTA-Formula Grants and Partnership Grants (Action Required) Not available
25-170  Other ProposalEqual Access Fund | Distribution of Funds to the California Access to Justice Commission (Action Required) Not available
25-171  Other ProposalJudicial Branch Administration | Sabbatical Request for Judge Ronald Owen Kaye (Action Required) Not available
25-128  Other ProposalJury Instructions | Criminal Jury Instructions (2025 Supplement) (Action Required) Not available
25-167  Report to LegislatureReport to the Legislature | California Community Corrections Performance Incentives Act of 2009 (Action Required) Not available
25-153  Rule/Form ProposalRules and Forms | Access and Fairness: Accommodations for Court Users to Pump or Express Breast Milk (Action Required) Not available
25-131  Rule/Form ProposalRules and Forms | Appellate Procedure: Extension of Time in Misdemeanor and Infraction Appeals (Action Required) Not available
25-132  Rule/Form ProposalRules and Forms | Appellate Procedure: Remote Appearances at Oral Argument in the Appellate Division (Action Required) Not available
25-149  Rule/Form ProposalRules and Forms | Civil Practice and Procedure: Amendment of the Collections Case Rule (Action Required) Not available
25-151  Rule/Form ProposalRules and Forms | Civil Practice and Procedure: Authorization to Appear on Behalf of a Party in Small Claims Cases (Action Required) Not available
25-150  Rule/Form ProposalRules and Forms | Civil Practice and Procedure: Confidential Information Form for Doxing Cases (Action Required) Not available
25-014  Rule/Form ProposalRules and Forms | Civil Practice and Procedure: Deadlines for Filings for Class Certification Motions (Action Required) Not available
25-147  Rule/Form ProposalRules and Forms | Civil Practice and Procedure: Implementation of Assembly Bill 2837 (Action Required) Not available
25-146  Rule/Form ProposalRules and Forms | Civil Practice and Procedure: Rules Regarding Telephonic Appearances (Action Required) Not available
25-135  Rule/Form ProposalRules and Forms | Comprehensive Adjudications of Groundwater Rights (Action Required) Not available
25-144  Rule/Form ProposalRules and Forms | Criminal Law: Findings and Orders for Pretrial Release or Detention (Action Required) Not available
25-142  Rule/Form ProposalRules and Forms | Criminal Law: Findings and Orders Regarding Prohibited Items While on Diversion (Action Required) Not available
25-143  Rule/Form ProposalRules and Forms | Criminal Law: Implementation of Recent Legislation Regarding Criminal Protective Orders (Action Required) Not available
25-141  Rule/Form ProposalRules and Forms | Criminal Law: Mental Competency Proceedings (Action Required) Not available
25-157  Rule/Form ProposalRules and Forms | Family Law and Protective Orders: Implementation of Senate Bill 599 and Assembly Bill 3072 (Action Required) Not available
25-155  Rule/Form ProposalRules and Forms | Family Law: Joint Petition for Dissolution or Legal Separation (Action Required) Not available
25-037  Rule/Form ProposalRules and Forms | Family Law: Rules and Forms to Determine Parental Relationship Based on Gestational Carrier Agreement (Action Required) Not available
25-160  Rule/Form ProposalRules and Forms | Family Law: Standards for Computer Software Used to Assist in Determining Support (Action Required) Not available
25-134  Rule/Form ProposalRules and Forms | Judicial Branch Education: Sunset of Pandemic-Related Deadline Extensions (Action Required) Not available
25-145  Rule/Form ProposalRules and Forms | Juvenile Law: Date a Child Entered Foster Care (Action Required) Not available
25-172  Rule/Form ProposalRules and Forms | Juvenile Law: Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) Inquiry and Family Finding (Action Required) Not available
25-168  Rule/Form ProposalRules and Forms | Juvenile Law: Racial Justice Act Forms (Action Required) Not available
25-038  Rule/Form ProposalRules and Forms | Juvenile Law: Retention of Jurisdiction and Petitions Requesting Juvenile Case Files of Deceased Children (Action Required) Not available
25-129  Rule/Form ProposalRules and Forms | Juvenile Law: Sex Offender Registration (Action Required) Not available
25-156  Rule/Form ProposalRules and Forms | Miscellaneous Technical Changes (Action Required) Not available
25-159  Rule/Form ProposalRules and Forms | Miscellaneous Technical Changes to CARE Act Rule and Adoption, CARE Act, and Sheriff Service Forms (Action Required) Not available
25-133  Rule/Form ProposalRules and Forms | New Case Categories for Civil Case Cover Sheet (Action Required) Not available
25-130  Rule/Form ProposalRules and Forms | Probate Conservatorship: Acceptance of Transfers Under the California Conservatorship Jurisdiction Act (Action Required) Not available
25-154  Rule/Form ProposalRules and Forms | Probate Conservatorship: Information for Conservatees (Action Required) Not available
25-162  Rule/Form ProposalRules and Forms | Protective Orders: Changes to Domestic Violence and Juvenile Forms to Implement Assembly Bill 2759 (Action Required) Not available
25-140  Rule/Form ProposalRules and Forms | Protective Orders: Civil Harassment Forms to Implement Senate Bill 554 (Action Required) Not available
25-138  Rule/Form ProposalRules and Forms | Protective Orders: Civil Restraining Order Forms to Implement Senate Bill 899 (Action Required) Not available
25-139  Rule/Form ProposalRules and Forms | Protective Orders: Postsecondary School Violence Forms to Implement Assembly Bill 2096 (Action Required) Not available
25-148  Rule/Form ProposalRules and Forms | Unlawful Detainer: Form Revisions to Reflect Repeal of COVID-19 Legislation (Action Required) Not available
25-165  Other ProposalSargent Shriver Civil Counsel Act | Fiscal Year 2025-26 Trial Court Trust Fund Allocation Increase for Sargent Shriver Civil Counsel Program (Action Required) Not available
    DISCUSSION AGENDA Not available
25-063  Other ProposalJuvenile Law | Court Adoption and Permanency Month (Action Required) Video Video
    INFORMATION AGENDA (NO ACTION REQUIRED) Not available
25-119  Information Only (no action required)Judicial Council Update | Report on Compliance With Education Rules for Justices and Judges Not available
25-169  Judicial Council UpdateJudicial Council Update | Trial Court Facility Modifications Report for Quarter 4 and Annual Summary for Fiscal Year 2024-25 Not available
25-137  Information Only (no action required)Report to the Legislature | Annual Report on Contracts for the Trial Courts for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2025 Not available
25-152  Information Only (no action required)Trial Courts | Public Notice of Court Closures or Reduced Clerks’ Office Hours Not available
    Judicial Council Internal Committee Reports Not available
25-166  Information Only (no action required)Written Reports Not available
    Circulating Orders Not available
25-173  Circulating OrderCirculating Orders since the last business meeting. Not available
    Appointment Orders Not available
25-136  Appointment OrderAppointment Orders since the last business meeting. Not available
    Adjournment Not available
    Respectfully submitted by Administrative Director Michelle Curran, Secretary to the Judicial Council, on December 12, 2025. Not available