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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Marriage: putative spouses."
+description: "Existing law specifies the circumstances under which a marriage is void or voidable. Existing law requires a court, if a determination is made that a marriage is void or voidable and either party believed in good faith that the marriage was valid, to declare the party or parties to have the status of a putative spouse and to divide the quasi-marital property that would have been community property or quasi-community property if the marriage was valid as if it were community property."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20152016"
+identifier: "AB 380"
+citation: "California AB 380 (20152016)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Marriage: putative spouses."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Waldron"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2015-02-18"
+last_action: "2015-08-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/53c9dbce-b5d9-47bd-a1c7-f8dcd1d6fc9b"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB380"
+source_hash: "37bc5b7dd90d164fe3d894dc221e541f2c9894b7be22dfd58c019a81d9e9731a"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
+---
+
+# California AB 380 (20152016) — Marriage: putative spouses.
+
+Existing law specifies the circumstances under which a marriage is void or voidable. Existing law requires a court, if a determination is made that a marriage is void or voidable and either party believed in good faith that the marriage was valid, to declare the party or parties to have the status of a putative spouse and to divide the quasi-marital property that would have been community property or quasi-community property if the marriage was valid as if it were community property.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/18/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB380&version=20150AB38099INT)
+2. **05/14/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB380&version=20150AB38098AMD)
+3. **08/13/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB380&version=20150AB38096CHP)
+4. **AB380** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB380)
+5. **07/13/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB380&version=20150AB38097ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- AB 380 WALDRON Consent Calendar Second Day — **79–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
+- Special Consent #4 — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- AB 380 WALDRON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **79–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Waldron — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2015-02-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2015-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
+- **2015-03-05** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
+- **2015-04-07** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 7). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2015-04-08** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2015-04-13** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 885.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2015-04-13** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2015-05-07** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
+- **2015-05-14** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
+- **2015-06-18** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2015-06-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2015-07-01** Ordered to special consent calendar.
+- **2015-07-06** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1792.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2015-07-06** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 8 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
+- **2015-07-09** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2312.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
+- **2015-08-03** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
+- **2015-08-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2015-08-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 196, Statutes of 2015.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/53c9dbce-b5d9-47bd-a1c7-f8dcd1d6fc9b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
+