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Bill	Human remains: conservator of the person or estate.	Under existing law, if a decedent has not otherwise given directions, the right to control the disposition of the remains of the deceased person, the location and conditions of interment, and arrangements for funeral goods and services vests in, and the specified corresponding duty devolves upon, certain persons in a specified order of succession. Existing law lists these persons, in order, as an agent under a power of attorney for health care who has the right and duty of disposition, the surviving spouse, other specified relatives, and, when the decedent has sufficient assets, a conservator of the person, a conservator of the estate, and the public administrator.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	SB 1284	California SB 1284 (20152016)	bill	Human remains: conservator of the person or estate.	enacted	Hernandez	5	18	4	2016-02-19	2016-06-27	openstates	ocd-bill/442d1c17-7d5f-47a9-8e77-3d22942b2930	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1284	f3b508847286deccf42f916e59bfae986ca89fd18080652f9c198e2c55606c4c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 1284 (20152016) — Human remains: conservator of the person or estate.

Under existing law, if a decedent has not otherwise given directions, the right to control the disposition of the remains of the deceased person, the location and conditions of interment, and arrangements for funeral goods and services vests in, and the specified corresponding duty devolves upon, certain persons in a specified order of succession. Existing law lists these persons, in order, as an agent under a power of attorney for health care who has the right and duty of disposition, the surviving spouse, other specified relatives, and, when the decedent has sufficient assets, a conservator of the person, a conservator of the estate, and the public administrator.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/28/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/27/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. SB1284 (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/16/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• SB 1284 Hernandez Consent Calendar Second Day — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Consent Calendar 2nd — 36–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Hernandez — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-19 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2016-02-22 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
• 2016-02-22 Read first time. reading-1
• 2016-03-03 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2016-03-24 Set for hearing April 5.
• 2016-03-28 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2016-04-05 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3394.) (April 5). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-04-06 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-04-11 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 3463.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-04-11 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2016-04-28 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2016-06-09 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 8). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-06-13 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-06-16 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 5403.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-16 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2016-06-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
• 2016-06-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-06-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 39, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/442d1c17-7d5f-47a9-8e77-3d22942b2930. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).