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Bill	Decedents' estates: smaller estates.	Existing law establishes simplified procedures for addressing a decedent's estate valued under $100,000, including authorizing the successor of the decedent to collect property due to the decedent without letters of administration or awaiting probate of a will. Existing law excludes certain property from the determination of the value of the estate, including salary or other compensation owed to the decedent, not to exceed $5,000. Existing law permits a court, pursuant to a petition, to determine succession to property in an estate valued under $100,000, as specified. Existing law establishes an affidavit procedure by which a person may be designated as a successor to a decedent to a particular item of real property valued at no more than $20,000. Existing law establishes an affidavit procedure by which a surviving spouse may collect salary or other compensation owed the deceased spouse when the amount does not exceed $5,000, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 1305	California AB 1305 (20112012)	bill	Decedents' estates: smaller estates.	enacted	Huber	5	18	5	2011-02-18	2011-07-25	openstates	ocd-bill/062a9068-42c6-4fbc-91b5-b9cb25b74308	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1305	b51dc53deb48f6506a9da9d430450ad6e2fd54df003ce81cf05d8a0b8cecf12d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1305 (20112012) — Decedents' estates: smaller estates.

Existing law establishes simplified procedures for addressing a decedent's estate valued under $100,000, including authorizing the successor of the decedent to collect property due to the decedent without letters of administration or awaiting probate of a will. Existing law excludes certain property from the determination of the value of the estate, including salary or other compensation owed to the decedent, not to exceed $5,000. Existing law permits a court, pursuant to a petition, to determine succession to property in an estate valued under $100,000, as specified. Existing law establishes an affidavit procedure by which a person may be designated as a successor to a decedent to a particular item of real property valued at no more than $20,000. Existing law establishes an affidavit procedure by which a surviving spouse may collect salary or other compensation owed the deceased spouse when the amount does not exceed $5,000, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/31/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/25/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB1305 (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/06/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent #5 — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1305 HUBER Consent Calendar Second Day — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1305 HUBER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 62–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 5–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Huber — primary (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.
• 2011-03-21 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2011-04-05 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 5). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-04-06 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-04-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 910.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-04-11 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2011-04-25 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2011-05-31 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
• 2011-06-07 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 7). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-06-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-06-22 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2011-06-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1573.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-06-27 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 29 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2011-07-01 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 62. Noes 0. Page 2158.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-07-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12:45 p.m.
• 2011-07-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-07-25 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 117, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/062a9068-42c6-4fbc-91b5-b9cb25b74308. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).