republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20092010/ab-1890.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Property: lost and unclaimed."
description: "Existing law authorizes the Regents of the University of California to provide by resolution or regulation for the care, restitution, sale, or destruction of unclaimed property in the possession of the regents or of the University of California Police Department. Existing law also authorizes the Trustees of the California State University to provide by resolution or regulation for the care, restitution, sale, or destruction of unclaimed, lost, or abandoned property in the possession of any state university. Existing law requires any resolution or regulation adopted by the trustees pursuant to those provisions to include that property shall be held for a period of at least 6 months."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 1890"
citation: "California AB 1890 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Property: lost and unclaimed."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Higher Education"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2010-02-16"
last_action: "2010-08-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9524f162-746e-4413-85cd-8490bc40c5d4"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1890"
source_hash: "051d5231ea8c721d2fe0b701994c0b5de75082a5b52cc75c0cdd39ebba63ac40"
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 1890 (20092010) — Property: lost and unclaimed.

Existing law authorizes the Regents of the University of California to provide by resolution or regulation for the care, restitution, sale, or destruction of unclaimed property in the possession of the regents or of the University of California Police Department. Existing law also authorizes the Trustees of the California State University to provide by resolution or regulation for the care, restitution, sale, or destruction of unclaimed, lost, or abandoned property in the possession of any state university. Existing law requires any resolution or regulation adopted by the trustees pursuant to those provisions to include that property shall be held for a period of at least 6 months.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/16/10 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1890&version=20090AB189099INT)
2. **06/22/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1890&version=20090AB189098AMD)
3. **08/27/10 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1890&version=20090AB189096CHP)
4. **AB1890** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1890)
5. **08/12/10 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1890&version=20090AB189097ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1890 HIGHER ED. Concurrence in Senate Amendments By BLOCK — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd AB1890 Committee on HIGHER ED. (Portanti — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 1890 HIGHER ED. Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Higher Education — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2010-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2010-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
- **2010-03-04** Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. `referral-committee`
- **2010-04-07** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 6). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-04-21** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (April 21). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-04-22** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-04-29** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 4942.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-04-29** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2010-05-13** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2010-06-21** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 16). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2010-06-22** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2010-08-02** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2010-08-03** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-08-05** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 4372.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-08-05** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 7 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2010-08-09** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6099.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2010-08-16** Enrolled and to the Governor at 4:55 p.m.
- **2010-08-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2010-08-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 199, Statutes of 2010.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9524f162-746e-4413-85cd-8490bc40c5d4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).