---
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).