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Bill	Public guardians and conservators: authority: property held in trust.	Existing law authorizes a county public guardian or conservator to take temporary possession or control of real and personal property of a person in the county who requires a guardian or conservator, as specified, if the property is subject to loss, injury, waste, or misappropriation. Existing law authorizes a public guardian to issue a written certification for purposes of taking possession or control of property in this regard, which may be recorded and which is effective for 15 days after the date of issuance. Existing law requires a financial institution or other person, without inquiring into the truth of the written certification and without court order being issued, to provide the public guardian information concerning property held in the sole name of the proposed ward or conservatee and to surrender to the public guardian property of the proposed ward or conservatee that is subject to loss, injury, waste, or misappropriation. Existing law immunizes the financial institution or other person from any liability for any act or omission of the public guardian with respect to the property.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 1288	California AB 1288 (20112012)	bill	Public guardians and conservators: authority: property held in trust.	enacted	Gordon	10	27	5	2011-02-18	2011-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/034d4bf5-190d-4f80-9b51-9b1a1e1b57d2	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1288	0f090444e6ca7023256be9b9c9ed10cde64c087216f8c1716d8a85ac70c5374d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1288 (20112012) — Public guardians and conservators: authority: property held in trust.

Existing law authorizes a county public guardian or conservator to take temporary possession or control of real and personal property of a person in the county who requires a guardian or conservator, as specified, if the property is subject to loss, injury, waste, or misappropriation. Existing law authorizes a public guardian to issue a written certification for purposes of taking possession or control of property in this regard, which may be recorded and which is effective for 15 days after the date of issuance. Existing law requires a financial institution or other person, without inquiring into the truth of the written certification and without court order being issued, to provide the public guardian information concerning property held in the sole name of the proposed ward or conservatee and to surrender to the public guardian property of the proposed ward or conservatee that is subject to loss, injury, waste, or misappropriation. Existing law immunizes the financial institution or other person from any liability for any act or omission of the public guardian with respect to the property.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/25/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/04/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/16/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/20/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/01/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 07/13/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/30/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB1288 (committee substitute) — source
10. 08/29/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1288 GORDON Assembly Third Reading — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1288 GORDON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent #8 AB1288 Gordon By Corbett — 34–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Gordon — primary (person)
• Beall — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-18 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2011-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2011-03-25 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2011-03-25 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-03-29 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2011-05-04 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-05-05 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2011-05-12 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (May 10). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-16 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-05-17 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-05-19 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1447.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-05-19 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2011-06-02 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2011-06-20 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-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-06-29 Measure version as amended on June 20 corrected. amendment-passage
• 2011-06-30 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 28). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-07-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-07-06 Measure version as amended on July 1 corrected. amendment-passage
• 2011-07-13 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-07-14 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-08-17 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2011-08-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 2017.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-08-22 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2011-08-25 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2565.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-08-31 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
• 2011-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 370, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/034d4bf5-190d-4f80-9b51-9b1a1e1b57d2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).