---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revocable transfer on death deeds."
description: "Existing law, until January 1, 2032, governs the execution, revocation, and effectiveness of a revocable transfer on death (TOD) deed, which is an instrument that makes a donative transfer of real property to a named beneficiary that becomes operative on the transferor's death, but remains revocable until the transferor's death. Under existing law, a separate interest in a stock cooperative is not real property that may be transferred by a revocable TOD deed."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 288"
citation: "California AB 288 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Revocable transfer on death deeds"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Maienschein"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-01-25"
last_action: "2023-07-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/55164816-8c27-48ac-83f3-aa76fbd2ade3"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB288"
source_hash: "cfc0a73a0f2bf20be517c3b109f4a9c16010c94bb94faab07407e86721b3a7b4"
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 288 (20232024) — Revocable transfer on death deeds.

Existing law, until January 1, 2032, governs the execution, revocation, and effectiveness of a revocable transfer on death (TOD) deed, which is an instrument that makes a donative transfer of real property to a named beneficiary that becomes operative on the transferor's death, but remains revocable until the transferor's death. Under existing law, a separate interest in a stock cooperative is not real property that may be transferred by a revocable TOD deed.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/25/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB288&version=20230AB28899INT)
2. **03/16/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB288&version=20230AB28898AMD)
3. **07/13/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB288&version=20230AB28896CHP)
4. **AB288** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB288)
5. **06/23/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB288&version=20230AB28897ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar AB288 Maienschein et al. — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 288 Maienschein Consent Calendar Second Day — **77–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Maienschein — primary (person)
- Pacheco — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-25** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2023-01-26** From printer. May be heard in committee February 25.
- **2023-02-02** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-16** 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-1, reading-2`
- **2023-03-20** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-21** Coauthors revised.
- **2023-03-21** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (March 21). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-22** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-03-27** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 935.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-03-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-03** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-14** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 13). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-15** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-06-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1682.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-06-22** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2023-07-03** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2023-07-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2023-07-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 62, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/55164816-8c27-48ac-83f3-aa76fbd2ade3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).