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Bill	Unclaimed property.	Existing law, the Unclaimed Property Law, authorizes the Controller to administer property that has escheated to the state and sets forth procedures whereby a person may file a claim to the property or to the net proceeds from its sale. Existing law specifies that only a person who claims to have been an owner of the property, as defined, may file a claim with the Controller. Existing law defines an "owner" as the person who had legal right to the property prior to its escheat, his or her heirs or estate representative, his or her guardian or conservator, or a public administrator, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 1712	California AB 1712 (20132014)	bill	Unclaimed property.	enacted	Gomez	6	24	8	2014-02-13	2014-09-15	openstates	ocd-bill/1bb7c7fb-281f-488c-a1bc-a61ca1efb49f	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1712	e2d0488f8a48a418d85aac20c5b2cb1e0945342af1c6e6404d418168238935c0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1712 (20132014) — Unclaimed property.

Existing law, the Unclaimed Property Law, authorizes the Controller to administer property that has escheated to the state and sets forth procedures whereby a person may file a claim to the property or to the net proceeds from its sale. Existing law specifies that only a person who claims to have been an owner of the property, as defined, may file a claim with the Controller. Existing law defines an "owner" as the person who had legal right to the property prior to its escheat, his or her heirs or estate representative, his or her guardian or conservator, or a public administrator, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/13/14 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/08/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/16/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/15/14 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB1712 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/29/14 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1712 GOMEZ Consent Calendar Second Day — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1712 Gomez By Evans — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1712 GOMEZ Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Gomez — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-02-13 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2014-02-14 From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
• 2014-02-20 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2014-03-25 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2014-04-07 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 1). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-04-08 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-04-09 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2014-04-30 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2014-05-01 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-05-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 4848.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-05-08 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2014-05-22 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2014-06-15 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 10). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-06-16 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-06-30 In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2014-08-14 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 14). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2014-08-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-08-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 4762.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-08-25 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 27 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2014-08-26 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6444.)
• 2014-08-26 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6462.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2014-09-08 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2014-09-15 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2014-09-15 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 330, Statutes of 2014.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1bb7c7fb-281f-488c-a1bc-a61ca1efb49f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).