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Bill	Civil actions: wrongful death.	Existing law specifies the persons who may bring a civil action for the death of a person caused by the wrongful act or neglect of another, and includes among those persons the decedent's parents if they were entitled to the decedent's property by intestate secession or if they were dependent on the decedent.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 2445	California AB 2445 (20192020)	bill	Civil actions: wrongful death.	enacted	Reyes	6	21	5	2020-02-19	2020-09-09	openstates	ocd-bill/da920d79-40e7-468f-b2c8-1aca238fc64a	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2445	2fe275c872d566a64f40a6197c258c637004748d0cea26934a218da183be8e44	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2445 (20192020) — Civil actions: wrongful death.

Existing law specifies the persons who may bring a civil action for the death of a person caused by the wrongful act or neglect of another, and includes among those persons the decedent's parents if they were entitled to the decedent's property by intestate secession or if they were dependent on the decedent.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/20 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/04/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/07/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/09/20 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB2445 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/01/20 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2445 Reyes Concurrence - Urgency Added — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2445 Reyes By Hertzberg Urgency Clause — 30–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2445 Reyes Assembly Third Reading — 77–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Reyes — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-02-19 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2020-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2020-02-27 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2020-03-17 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2020-05-04 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2020-05-05 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2020-05-07 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2020-05-27 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (May 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2020-05-28 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-06-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 4681.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-06-09 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2020-06-23 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2020-07-07 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2020-07-31 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2020-08-01 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-27 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 0. Page 4350.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-27 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2020-08-30 Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5341.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-09-08 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
• 2020-09-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2020-09-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 51, Statutes of 2020.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/da920d79-40e7-468f-b2c8-1aca238fc64a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).