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Bill Estates and trusts: instrument. Existing law defines "instrument" for purposes of the Probate Code to mean a will, trust, deed, or other writing that designates a beneficiary or makes a donative transfer of property. Existing law, the Trust Law, regulates the creation, modification, and termination of trusts and the administration of trusts by trustees on behalf of beneficiaries. us/states/ca California Legislature 20192020 SB 308 California SB 308 (20192020)
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California SB 308 (20192020) — Estates and trusts: instrument.

Existing law defines "instrument" for purposes of the Probate Code to mean a will, trust, deed, or other writing that designates a beneficiary or makes a donative transfer of property. Existing law, the Trust Law, regulates the creation, modification, and termination of trusts and the administration of trusts by trustees on behalf of beneficiaries.

Version chain

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

  1. 02/15/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
  2. 03/21/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
  3. 07/01/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
  4. SB308 (committee substitute) — source
  5. 06/26/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

  • Consent Calendar SB308 — 370 (pass) · upper
  • Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 120 (pass) · lower
  • Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 80 (pass) · upper
  • SB 308 Jones Consent Calendar Second Day — 770 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Jones — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2019-02-15 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
  • 2019-02-19 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 21.
  • 2019-02-28 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
  • 2019-03-08 Set for hearing March 26.
  • 2019-03-21 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
  • 2019-03-27 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 438.) (March 26). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
  • 2019-03-28 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
  • 2019-04-04 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 563.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-3, reading-1
  • 2019-04-04 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
  • 2019-05-02 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
  • 2019-06-18 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 18). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
  • 2019-06-19 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
  • 2019-06-24 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2402.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-3, reading-1
  • 2019-06-24 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
  • 2019-06-28 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1 p.m.
  • 2019-07-01 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
  • 2019-07-01 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 56, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2166c94a-2377-4417-85a3-6f30ade03e32. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).