---
type: "Bill"
title: "Disposition of estate without administration."
description: "(1) Existing law authorizes procedures to dispose of a decedent's personal and real property that is valued below specified dollar amounts without a full probate administration. Existing law also authorizes procedures for a decedent's property, including unpaid compensation, to pass to a surviving spouse, under specified conditions that include whether the property is community, quasi-community, or separate property."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 473"
citation: "California AB 473 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Disposition of estate without administration."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Maienschein"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-02-11"
last_action: "2019-07-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/76d077b9-2ab1-493c-8bb9-4bb08ec83863"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB473"
source_hash: "fe0bbf3c82e9d074998bbe3b28f5cf74c80dfd2de31b9e67c05cf9a827ed7a16"
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 473 (20192020) — Disposition of estate without administration.

(1) Existing law authorizes procedures to dispose of a decedent's personal and real property that is valued below specified dollar amounts without a full probate administration. Existing law also authorizes procedures for a decedent's property, including unpaid compensation, to pass to a surviving spouse, under specified conditions that include whether the property is community, quasi-community, or separate property.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/11/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB473&version=20190AB47399INT)
2. **05/07/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB473&version=20190AB47398AMD)
3. **07/30/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB473&version=20190AB47396CHP)
4. **AB473** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB473)
5. **07/09/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB473&version=20190AB47397ENR)

## Votes

- Consent Calendar AB473 — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 473 Maienschein Consent Calendar Second Day — **72–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 473 Maienschein Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **77–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Maienschein — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-11** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2019-02-12** From printer. May be heard in committee March 14.
- **2019-02-21** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (March 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-03** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 3). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-04** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-04-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 1190.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-04-11** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-04-24** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-07** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-06-04** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 4). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-24** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2019-06-25** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-07-01** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1877.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-07-01** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 3 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2019-07-08** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2561.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-07-19** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
- **2019-07-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-07-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 122, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/76d077b9-2ab1-493c-8bb9-4bb08ec83863`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).