republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20092010/ab-2674.md

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Bill	Family law: exemplary damages.	Existing law provides that, in addition to any other remedy authorized by law, when a spouse is convicted of attempting to murder the other spouse, as specified, the injured spouse shall be entitled to 100% of the community property interest in his or her retirement and pension benefits, and a prohibition of specified support or insurance benefits from the injured spouse to the other spouse, as specified. Existing law defines injured spouse for these purposes. Existing law also authorizes a court to award attorney's fees and costs in the form of a sanction in these cases, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 2674	California AB 2674 (20092010)	bill	Family law: exemplary damages.	enacted	Block	4	16	4	2010-02-19	2010-07-09	openstates	ocd-bill/f869e741-b3c2-4bed-9440-aaff7ecfac95	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2674	7013a89c0b5bf0341448d6abacfba69447bab78ee25c81819d9d9e00c0c42d04	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2674 (20092010) — Family law: exemplary damages.

Existing law provides that, in addition to any other remedy authorized by law, when a spouse is convicted of attempting to murder the other spouse, as specified, the injured spouse shall be entitled to 100% of the community property interest in his or her retirement and pension benefits, and a prohibition of specified support or insurance benefits from the injured spouse to the other spouse, as specified. Existing law defines injured spouse for these purposes. Existing law also authorizes a court to award attorney's fees and costs in the form of a sanction in these cases, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/10 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 07/09/10 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. AB2674 (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/25/10 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2674 BLOCK Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · upper
• Consent Calendar 2nd AB2674 Block — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Block — primary (person)
• Portantino — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2010-02-19 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2010-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
• 2010-02-22 Read first time. reading-1
• 2010-03-18 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2010-04-06 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (April 6). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2010-04-07 Read second time. To Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-04-12 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 4598.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2010-04-12 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2010-04-29 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2010-06-16 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (June 15). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2010-06-17 Read second time. To Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-06-24 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 0. Page 4056.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2010-06-24 In Assembly. To enrollment.
• 2010-06-30 Enrolled and to the Governor at 11:15 a.m.
• 2010-07-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2010-07-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 65, Statutes of 2010.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f869e741-b3c2-4bed-9440-aaff7ecfac95. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).