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type: "Bill"
title: "Procedures for litigation."
description: "(1) Existing law governs the procedures for litigation to resolve certain disputes relating to property that is subject to an estate, conservatorship, guardianship, or trust. These procedures include, among others, a requirement to serve the petition for relief and a notice of hearing on specific persons."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 308"
citation: "California AB 308 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Procedures for litigation."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Maienschein"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-06"
last_action: "2017-06-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5b28ef6f-94b5-45bb-a47d-30f721fa868a"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB308"
source_hash: "7de76a6f8695af93c61d1680b4a883cb957c42158fc223994e1fd9f0c9884261"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---
# California AB 308 (20172018) — Procedures for litigation.
(1) Existing law governs the procedures for litigation to resolve certain disputes relating to property that is subject to an estate, conservatorship, guardianship, or trust. These procedures include, among others, a requirement to serve the petition for relief and a notice of hearing on specific persons.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/06/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB308&version=20170AB30899INT)
2. **03/09/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB308&version=20170AB30898AMD)
3. **06/28/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB308&version=20170AB30896CHP)
4. **AB308** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB308)
5. **06/13/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB308&version=20170AB30897ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **60** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar 2nd AB308 — **380** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Maienschein — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-02-06** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2017-02-07** From printer. May be heard in committee March 9.
- **2017-02-21** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-09** 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`
- **2017-03-13** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-14** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (March 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-03-15** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-03-20** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 647.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-03-20** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2017-05-10** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-06** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 6). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-06-07** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-06-12** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1487.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-06-12** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2017-06-16** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2017-06-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-06-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 32, Statutes of 2017.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5b28ef6f-94b5-45bb-a47d-30f721fa868a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).