---
type: "Bill"
title: "Estates and trusts: kindred: definition."
description: "Existing law uses the term \"kindred\" in various provisions of the Probate Code, including a provision that specifies that if a transferee is dead when a testamentary instrument is executed, or fails or is treated as failing to survive the transferor or until a future time required by the instrument, the issue of the deceased transferee take in the transferee's place, as specified, and defines transferee to mean a person who is kindred of the transferor or kindred of a surviving, deceased, or former spouse of the transferor."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 1960"
citation: "California AB 1960 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Estates and trusts: kindred: definition."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Obernolte"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2018-01-30"
last_action: "2018-07-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d780ef43-e2c8-45d1-810f-46fb28491d00"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1960"
source_hash: "24934260453c8d47f98b4374019fbe0edb95063a2afe289449a7f3d423e5bd03"
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 1960 (20172018) — Estates and trusts: kindred: definition.

Existing law uses the term "kindred" in various provisions of the Probate Code, including a provision that specifies that if a transferee is dead when a testamentary instrument is executed, or fails or is treated as failing to survive the transferor or until a future time required by the instrument, the issue of the deceased transferee take in the transferee's place, as specified, and defines transferee to mean a person who is kindred of the transferor or kindred of a surviving, deceased, or former spouse of the transferor.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/30/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1960&version=20170AB196099INT)
2. **04/05/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1960&version=20170AB196098AMD)
3. **07/09/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1960&version=20170AB196096CHP)
4. **AB1960** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1960)
5. **06/27/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1960&version=20170AB196097ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar AB1960 — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1960 OBERNOLTE Consent Calendar Second Day — **73–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Obernolte — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-30** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2018-01-31** From printer. May be heard in committee March 2.
- **2018-02-08** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-19** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2018-04-02** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2018-04-05** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-04-09** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-10** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 10). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-04-11** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-04-16** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 4688.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-04-17** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2018-04-25** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-13** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 12). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-06-14** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-06-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4878.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-06-25** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2018-06-29** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2018-07-09** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2018-07-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 71, Statutes of 2018.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d780ef43-e2c8-45d1-810f-46fb28491d00`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).