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Bill	Conservatorship.	Existing law, the Guardianship-Conservatorship Law generally establishes the standards and procedures for the appointment and termination of an appointment for a guardian or conservator of a person, an estate, or both. Existing law, the Professional Fiduciaries Act, establishes the Professional Fiduciaries Bureau within the Department of Consumer Affairs, and requires the bureau to license and regulate professional fiduciaries. The act defines a "professional fiduciary" as, among other things, a person who acts as a guardian or conservator of the person, the estate, or the person and estate, for 2 or more individuals at the same time who are not related to the professional fiduciary or to each other. Existing law requires the court to be guided by what appears to be the best interests of the proposed conservatee in selecting a conservator, and sets forth an order of preference for appointment if there are multiple persons equally qualified to be the conservator.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 1194	California AB 1194 (20212022)	bill	Conservatorship.	enacted	Low	13	39	10	2021-02-18	2021-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/a87a8929-53d8-474d-8578-4ee31e787b1e	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1194	53617510b74f5a675055c5fe32a2b19182d18aa40398e32a20b8721eda2dd9d7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1194 (20212022) — Conservatorship.

Existing law, the Guardianship-Conservatorship Law generally establishes the standards and procedures for the appointment and termination of an appointment for a guardian or conservator of a person, an estate, or both. Existing law, the Professional Fiduciaries Act, establishes the Professional Fiduciaries Bureau within the Department of Consumer Affairs, and requires the bureau to license and regulate professional fiduciaries. The act defines a "professional fiduciary" as, among other things, a person who acts as a guardian or conservator of the person, the estate, or the person and estate, for 2 or more individuals at the same time who are not related to the professional fiduciary or to each other. Existing law requires the court to be guided by what appears to be the best interests of the proposed conservatee in selecting a conservator, and sets forth an order of preference for appointment if there are multiple persons equally qualified to be the conservator.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/22/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/29/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/06/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 04/21/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 04/28/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 06/24/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 07/06/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/26/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/03/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/30/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
12. AB1194 (committee substitute) — source
13. 09/14/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1194 Low Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1194 Low et al. By Allen — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1194 Low Assembly Third Reading — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Business, Professions and Economic Development] — 11–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Low — primary (person)
• Allen — principal coauthor (person)
• Laird — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-18 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2021-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2021-03-18 Referred to Coms. on B. & P. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-03-22 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-03-23 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2021-03-29 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-03-30 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2021-04-06 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-04-07 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2021-04-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 13). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-04-21 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-1, reading-2
• 2021-04-22 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-04-27 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 27). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-04-28 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-04-29 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2021-05-10 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2021-05-19 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-05-20 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 1460.)
• 2021-05-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 20). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1683.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-05-28 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-06-09 Referred to Coms. on JUD. and B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2021-06-23 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on B., P. & E.D. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 22). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-06-24 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-07-06 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-07-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (July 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-08-16 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-08-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 26). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2021-08-26 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-03 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2507.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-08 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2021-09-09 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 3086.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2021-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 417, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a87a8929-53d8-474d-8578-4ee31e787b1e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).