Existing law uses the term "kindred" in various provisions of the Probate Code, including a provision that specifies that if a transferee is dead when a testamentary instrument is executed, or fails or is treated as failing to survive the transferor or until a future time required by the instrument, the issue of the deceased transferee take in the transferee's place, as specified, and defines transferee to mean a person who is kindred of the transferor or kindred of a surviving, deceased, or former spouse of the transferor.
California AB 1960 (20172018) — Estates and trusts: kindred: definition.
Existing law uses the term "kindred" in various provisions of the Probate Code, including a provision that specifies that if a transferee is dead when a testamentary instrument is executed, or fails or is treated as failing to survive the transferor or until a future time required by the instrument, the issue of the deceased transferee take in the transferee's place, as specified, and defines transferee to mean a person who is kindred of the transferor or kindred of a surviving, deceased, or former spouse of the transferor.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
Consent Calendar AB1960 — 36–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 10–0 (pass) · lower
AB 1960 OBERNOLTE Consent Calendar Second Day — 73–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
Obernolte — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2018-01-30 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2018-01-31 From printer. May be heard in committee March 2.
2018-02-08 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
2018-03-19 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
2018-04-02 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
2018-04-05 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
2018-04-09 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
2018-04-10 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 10). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2018-04-11 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
2018-04-16 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 4688.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
2018-04-17 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2018-04-25 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
2018-06-13 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 12). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2018-06-14 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
2018-06-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4878.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
2018-06-25 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
2018-06-29 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
2018-07-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2018-07-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 71, Statutes of 2018.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d780ef43-e2c8-45d1-810f-46fb28491d00. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).