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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Estates and trusts: donative transfers."
+description: "Existing law creates a presumption of fraud or undue influence, under certain circumstances, for any instrument that makes a donative transfer to specified persons, including, among others, a person in a fiduciary relationship with the transferor who transcribed the instrument or caused it to be transcribed."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20172018"
+identifier: "SB 153"
+citation: "California SB 153 (20172018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Estates and trusts: donative transfers."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Anderson"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2017-01-18"
+last_action: "2017-07-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a4ac1d64-17a9-43af-9dda-7840052f9612"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB153"
+source_hash: "03505ad8aedd59f24f8cbb17a798f1ceb38d5fe3e0b32b56fd3119ab4558369d"
+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 SB 153 (20172018) — Estates and trusts: donative transfers.
+
+Existing law creates a presumption of fraud or undue influence, under certain circumstances, for any instrument that makes a donative transfer to specified persons, including, among others, a person in a fiduciary relationship with the transferor who transcribed the instrument or caused it to be transcribed.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **01/18/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB153&version=20170SB15399INT)
+2. **07/10/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB153&version=20170SB15397CHP)
+3. **SB153** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB153)
+4. **06/21/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB153&version=20170SB15398ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **11–0** (pass) · lower
+- SB 153 Anderson Consent Calendar Second Day — **74–0** (pass) · lower
+- Consent Calendar 2nd SB153 Anderson et al. — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **6–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Anderson — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-18** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2017-01-19** From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 18.
+- **2017-01-26** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-21** Set for hearing April 4.
+- **2017-04-05** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 625.) (April 4). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2017-04-06** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2017-04-20** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 768.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2017-04-20** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
+- **2017-05-18** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
+- **2017-06-13** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 13). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2017-06-14** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2017-06-19** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 2259.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2017-06-19** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
+- **2017-06-26** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
+- **2017-07-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2017-07-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 56, Statutes of 2017.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a4ac1d64-17a9-43af-9dda-7840052f9612`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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