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Bill	Disposition of remains: authorized agent.	Existing law lists the person or persons who, in an order of succession, have the right to control, and duty of disposition of, the remains of a deceased person if other directions have not been given by the decedent. The first among the list of persons so authorized pursuant to this list is an agent under a power of attorney for health care who has the right and duty of disposition. A person upon whom the duty of interment is imposed by law who omits to perform that duty within a reasonable period of time is guilty of a misdemeanor.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 905	California AB 905 (20112012)	bill	Disposition of remains: authorized agent.	enacted	Pan	8	23	7	2011-02-17	2011-09-26	openstates	ocd-bill/f8f78bc8-cbe4-409e-b229-58697c30ae22	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB905	85be172f5e7f534e830b9a0020645df3516c5ca405dd9046602451b88c9d8f77	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 905 (20112012) — Disposition of remains: authorized agent.

Existing law lists the person or persons who, in an order of succession, have the right to control, and duty of disposition of, the remains of a deceased person if other directions have not been given by the decedent. The first among the list of persons so authorized pursuant to this list is an agent under a power of attorney for health care who has the right and duty of disposition. A person upon whom the duty of interment is imposed by law who omits to perform that duty within a reasonable period of time is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/16/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/09/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/12/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/23/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/26/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB905 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/08/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 905 PAN Consent Calendar Second Day — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 905 PAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB905 Pan By Correa — 35–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, to Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Veterans Affairs to Consent Calendar. — 10–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Pan — primary (person)
• Atkins — coauthor (person)
• Cook — coauthor (person)
• Knight — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2011-02-18 From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
• 2011-03-14 Referred to Coms. on JUD. and V.A. referral-committee
• 2011-04-05 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on V.A. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 5). Re-referred to Com. on V.A. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-04-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-12 From committee: Do pass as amended. To consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 11). 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 consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-05-19 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1454.) 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
• 2011-06-09 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
• 2011-06-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-07-11 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and be amended. committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2011-07-12 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-08-23 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-08-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-08-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 2. Page 2141.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 2 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2011-09-02 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2844.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
• 2011-09-26 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-09-26 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 321, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f8f78bc8-cbe4-409e-b229-58697c30ae22. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).