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Bill	Unclaimed property.	Existing law, the Unclaimed Property Law, governs the disposition of unclaimed property, including the escheat of certain property to the state. Those provisions require a person holding funds or other property escheated to the state to report to the Controller certain information regarding the property and the owner.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 1291	California AB 1291 (20092010)	bill	Unclaimed property.	enacted	Niello	9	32	8	2009-02-27	2009-10-11	openstates	ocd-bill/cbc8fa54-7481-4087-b6dd-4ef99999d8c9	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1291	5cc4e81b4c5831c995f6bade9fde2f1e66e73d6bd90a93b08ba217545a6bbff7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1291 (20092010) — Unclaimed property.

Existing law, the Unclaimed Property Law, governs the disposition of unclaimed property, including the escheat of certain property to the state. Those provisions require a person holding funds or other property escheated to the state to report to the Controller certain information regarding the property and the owner.

Version chain

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

1. 02/27/09 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/02/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/01/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/06/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/01/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/04/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/11/09 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB1291 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/21/09 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended. — pass (pass) · upper
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — pass (pass) · upper
• Special Consent #21 AB1291 Niello By Cox — pass (pass) · upper
• AB 1291 Niello Concurrence in Senate Amendments — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 1291 NIELLO Assembly Third Reading — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Niello — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2009-02-27 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2009-03-01 From printer. May be heard in committee March 30.
• 2009-03-02 Read first time. reading-1
• 2009-03-31 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2009-04-02 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-04-13 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2009-04-21 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 21). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-05-06 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2009-05-29 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 28). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-06-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-06-02 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-06-03 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2025.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-06-04 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2009-06-18 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2009-06-25 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2009-07-06 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2009-07-06 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, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2009-07-15 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 14). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-08-17 In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
• 2009-08-31 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (August 27). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-09-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-09-02 Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
• 2009-09-03 Ordered to third reading.
• 2009-09-04 Read third time, amended. To second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-09-08 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-09-09 Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
• 2009-09-10 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2390.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-09-11 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2009-09-11 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3374.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2009-09-28 Enrolled and to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2009-10-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2009-10-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 522, Statutes of 2009.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cbc8fa54-7481-4087-b6dd-4ef99999d8c9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).