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Bill	Disposition of estate without administration.	(1) Existing law authorizes procedures to dispose of a decedent's personal and real property that is valued below specified dollar amounts without a full probate administration. Existing law also authorizes procedures for a decedent's property, including unpaid compensation, to pass to a surviving spouse, under specified conditions that include whether the property is community, quasi-community, or separate property.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 473	California AB 473 (20192020)	bill	Disposition of estate without administration.	enacted	Maienschein	5	19	6	2019-02-11	2019-07-30	openstates	ocd-bill/76d077b9-2ab1-493c-8bb9-4bb08ec83863	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB473	fe0bbf3c82e9d074998bbe3b28f5cf74c80dfd2de31b9e67c05cf9a827ed7a16	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 473 (20192020) — Disposition of estate without administration.

(1) Existing law authorizes procedures to dispose of a decedent's personal and real property that is valued below specified dollar amounts without a full probate administration. Existing law also authorizes procedures for a decedent's property, including unpaid compensation, to pass to a surviving spouse, under specified conditions that include whether the property is community, quasi-community, or separate property.

Version chain

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

1. 02/11/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/07/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/30/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB473 (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/09/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Consent Calendar AB473 — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 473 Maienschein Consent Calendar Second Day — 72–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 473 Maienschein Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Maienschein — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-11 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-02-12 From printer. May be heard in committee March 14.
• 2019-02-21 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2019-03-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (March 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-03 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 3). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-04-04 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-04-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 1190.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-04-11 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-04-24 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2019-05-07 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
• 2019-06-04 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 4). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-06-24 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2019-06-25 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-07-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1877.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-07-01 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 3 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2019-07-08 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2561.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-07-19 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
• 2019-07-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-07-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 122, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/76d077b9-2ab1-493c-8bb9-4bb08ec83863. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).