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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Happy Homestead Cemetery District: nonresident burial."
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description: "The Public Cemetery District Law specifies the procedures for the formation of public cemetery districts, procedures for the selection of the district board of trustees and officers, and the powers and duties of the board. That law limits interments in public cemetery district cemeteries to residents of the district and nonresidents who meet specified criteria. Existing law also permits interments of nonresidents in designated public cemetery districts under certain circumstances."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20152016"
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identifier: "AB 1658"
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citation: "California AB 1658 (20152016)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Happy Homestead Cemetery District: nonresident burial."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Bigelow"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 16
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vote_count: 4
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first_action: "2016-01-13"
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last_action: "2016-08-30"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/da71da2f-30f2-492f-accb-1df0d7b07982"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1658"
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source_hash: "18e4507253fe32ea16ae58daa7ddcd6f2271772369c72d6ab002b1786fca534c"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 1658 (20152016) — Happy Homestead Cemetery District: nonresident burial.
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The Public Cemetery District Law specifies the procedures for the formation of public cemetery districts, procedures for the selection of the district board of trustees and officers, and the powers and duties of the board. That law limits interments in public cemetery district cemeteries to residents of the district and nonresidents who meet specified criteria. Existing law also permits interments of nonresidents in designated public cemetery districts under certain circumstances.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **01/13/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1658&version=20150AB165899INT)
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2. **08/30/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1658&version=20150AB165897CHP)
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3. **AB1658** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1658)
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4. **08/17/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1658&version=20150AB165898ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- 3rd Reading AB1658 Bigelow By Gaines — **37–0** (pass) · upper
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- AB 1658 BIGELOW Assembly Third Reading — **78–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass. — **8–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Bigelow — primary (person)
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- Gaines — coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2016-01-13** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2016-01-14** From printer. May be heard in committee February 13.
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- **2016-02-04** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
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- **2016-05-05** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (May 4). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2016-05-09** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2016-05-12** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 4777.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2016-05-12** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2016-05-19** Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
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- **2016-06-06** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
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- **2016-06-15** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 15). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2016-06-16** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2016-08-15** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4951.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2016-08-16** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
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- **2016-08-22** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
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- **2016-08-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2016-08-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 242, Statutes of 2016.
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/da71da2f-30f2-492f-accb-1df0d7b07982`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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