---
type: "Bill"
title: "Intestate succession: children."
description: "Existing law provides that the estate of a decedent not effectively disposed of by a will passes to the decedent's heirs as prescribed by law. Existing law prohibits, for a child born out of wedlock, a natural parent or a relative of that parent from inheriting from or through the child on the basis of the parent and child relationship unless the parent or a relative of the parent acknowledged the child and the parent or a relative of the parent contributed to the support or the care of the child."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 490"
citation: "California AB 490 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Intestate succession: children."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Skinner"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2013-02-19"
last_action: "2013-06-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a399c1cd-9992-4c94-a8c7-0d9acc7faa82"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB490"
source_hash: "f8719880dff06d4bc3adc18ace6d8452a42e387890b577463ce3c7375d4ba56d"
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 490 (20132014) — Intestate succession: children.

Existing law provides that the estate of a decedent not effectively disposed of by a will passes to the decedent's heirs as prescribed by law. Existing law prohibits, for a child born out of wedlock, a natural parent or a relative of that parent from inheriting from or through the child on the basis of the parent and child relationship unless the parent or a relative of the parent acknowledged the child and the parent or a relative of the parent contributed to the support or the care of the child.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/19/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB490&version=20130AB49099INT)
2. **04/08/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB490&version=20130AB49098AMD)
3. **05/23/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB490&version=20130AB49097AMD)
4. **06/28/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB490&version=20130AB49095CHP)
5. **AB490** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB490)
6. **06/14/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB490&version=20130AB49096ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 490 SKINNER Assembly Third Reading — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 490 SKINNER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Skinner — primary (person)
- Maienschein — coauthor (person)
- Mullin — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-02-19** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2013-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
- **2013-03-14** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-04** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 2). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-04-08** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-04-09** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-04-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 881.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-04-11** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2013-04-25** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2013-05-23** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-06-04** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 4). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-06-05** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-06-10** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 0. Page 1274.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-06-10** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 12 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2013-06-14** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1997.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2013-06-20** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
- **2013-06-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2013-06-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 39, Statutes of 2013.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a399c1cd-9992-4c94-a8c7-0d9acc7faa82`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).