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Bill	Estates: administration.	Existing law governs the administration of the estates of decedents. Under existing law, when an individual dies intestate, a court is authorized to appoint certain specified persons to act as that individual's personal representative and to administer the individual's estate. Further, existing law prescribes an order of preference for appointment among those persons.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 1670	California AB 1670 (20112012)	bill	Estates: administration.	enacted	Lara	6	19	5	2012-02-14	2012-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/2374846e-2b21-4466-99a9-f5bad7eb91b4	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1670	a9a313fad16d309b060df091d0cd834404bc95f7149f7e707f738d411e16645f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1670 (20112012) — Estates: administration.

Existing law governs the administration of the estates of decedents. Under existing law, when an individual dies intestate, a court is authorized to appoint certain specified persons to act as that individual's personal representative and to administer the individual's estate. Further, existing law prescribes an order of preference for appointment among those persons.

Version chain

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

1. 02/14/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/26/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/25/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/27/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB1670 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/31/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1670 LARA Assembly Third Reading — 52–15 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 6–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 3–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 1670 LARA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 54–20 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1670 Lara By Evans — 21–16 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Lara — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-14 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2012-02-15 From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
• 2012-02-23 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2012-03-22 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (March 20). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-03-26 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-03-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-04-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 52. Noes 15. Page 4591.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-04-30 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-05-17 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2012-06-25 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
• 2012-07-05 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 3. Noes 2.) (July 3). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-07-06 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 21. Noes 16. Page 4769.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-24 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-08-27 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6357.)
• 2012-08-27 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 54. Noes 20. Page 6383.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-09-06 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5:45 p.m.
• 2012-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 635, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2374846e-2b21-4466-99a9-f5bad7eb91b4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).