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Bill	Endowment care cemeteries: examination, investigation, and discipline.	Existing law, the Cemetery and Funeral Act, establishes the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau within the Department of Consumer Affairs and sets forth its powers and duties relating to the licensure and regulation of cemeteries, crematories, funeral establishments, and their personnel. Existing law authorizes a cemetery authority that maintains a cemetery to place its cemetery under endowment care and establish, maintain, and operate an endowment care fund.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 651	California AB 651 (20212022)	bill	Endowment care cemeteries: examination investigation and discipline.	enacted	Gipson	11	31	8	2021-02-12	2021-10-01	openstates	ocd-bill/ca5d695c-0f1f-49f1-ab46-ae451f543b6d	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB651	a70c5201d234dacde9ab4f6dbcdbe5ebeda8fea55ba7522b94cc77cd5f7d7231	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 651 (20212022) — Endowment care cemeteries: examination, investigation, and discipline.

Existing law, the Cemetery and Funeral Act, establishes the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau within the Department of Consumer Affairs and sets forth its powers and duties relating to the licensure and regulation of cemeteries, crematories, funeral establishments, and their personnel. Existing law authorizes a cemetery authority that maintains a cemetery to place its cemetery under endowment care and establish, maintain, and operate an endowment care fund.

Version chain

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

1. 02/12/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/13/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/21/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/24/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/28/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/30/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/26/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/03/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 10/01/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. AB651 (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/13/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB651 Gipson By Hueso — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 19–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 651 Gipson Assembly Third Reading — 78–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 651 GIPSON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 76–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Gipson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-12 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2021-02-13 From printer. May be heard in committee March 15.
• 2021-02-25 Referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2021-04-13 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
• 2021-04-14 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2021-04-20 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (April 20). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-04-21 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-04-22 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2021-05-05 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-05-20 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 20). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2021-05-24 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-06-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 1. Page 1766.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-06-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-06-09 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2021-06-28 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
• 2021-06-30 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
• 2021-07-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (July 14). 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
• 2021-09-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2579.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2021-09-09 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 3063.)
• 2021-09-09 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 3078.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2021-10-01 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-10-01 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 442, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ca5d695c-0f1f-49f1-ab46-ae451f543b6d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).