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Bill	Powers of appointment.	Existing law provides a statutory body of law relating to powers of appointment, including the creation and exercise of, and the revocability of the creation, exercise, or release of, a power of appointment. Existing law provides that a power of appointment can be created only by a donor having the capacity to transfer the interest in property to which the power relates. Existing law for these purposes defines a person to whom a power of appointment is given or in whose favor a power of appointment is reserved as a "donee."	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 2846	California AB 2846 (20152016)	bill	Powers of appointment.	enacted	Maienschein	5	19	4	2016-02-19	2016-07-22	openstates	ocd-bill/5a3670e3-1e97-4b7a-a27d-a3ff4a2add48	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2846	7e7ec6e45ec0d497f78c4cf5ac487148fa8a9f5fb0ba07e771f90c53b22ff72d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2846 (20152016) — Powers of appointment.

Existing law provides a statutory body of law relating to powers of appointment, including the creation and exercise of, and the revocability of the creation, exercise, or release of, a power of appointment. Existing law provides that a power of appointment can be created only by a donor having the capacity to transfer the interest in property to which the power relates. Existing law for these purposes defines a person to whom a power of appointment is given or in whose favor a power of appointment is reserved as a "donee."

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/09/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/22/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB2846 (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/07/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Consent Calendar 2nd — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2846 MAIENSCHEIN Consent Calendar Second Day — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. — 10–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Maienschein — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-19 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2016-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2016-02-22 Read first time. reading-1
• 2016-03-14 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2016-03-29 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2016-04-20 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2016-05-05 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (May 3). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-05-09 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-10 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 4792.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-05-12 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-05-19 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2016-06-22 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 21). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-06-23 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-06-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4648.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-30 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2016-07-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2016-07-22 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-07-22 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 81, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5a3670e3-1e97-4b7a-a27d-a3ff4a2add48. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).