---
type: "Bill"
title: "Wills: requirements."
description: "Wills: requirements."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20072008"
identifier: "AB 2248"
citation: "California AB 2248 (20072008)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Wills: requirements."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Spitzer"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 17
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2008-02-20"
last_action: "2008-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8fa909b9-a4ad-431f-9eb1-16f9fca5fe2a"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB2248"
source_hash: "fc39060730750ed796dd4781c2041aa44183a4e4ee812208ce72216103c592f3"
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 2248 (20072008) — Wills: requirements.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/20/08 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB2248&version=20070AB224899INT)
2. **03/24/08 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB2248&version=20070AB224898AMD)
3. **07/01/08 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB2248&version=20070AB224896CHP)
4. **AB2248** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB2248)
5. **06/19/08 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB2248&version=20070AB224897ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 2248 SPITZER Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd AB2248 Spitzer — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Spitzer — primary (person)
- Ma — author (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2008-02-20** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2008-02-21** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
- **2008-03-05** Referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2008-03-24** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Judiciary Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, referral-committee`
- **2008-03-25** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2008-04-02** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (April 1). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2008-04-03** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2008-04-14** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 4630.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2008-04-14** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2008-04-24** Referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2008-06-11** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2008-06-12** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2008-06-19** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 4299.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2008-06-19** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2008-06-20** Enrolled and to the Governor at 11:15 a.m.
- **2008-07-01** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2008-07-01** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 53, Statutes of 2008.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8fa909b9-a4ad-431f-9eb1-16f9fca5fe2a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).