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Bill	Endowment care cemeteries: reporting.	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 specifies that the powers and duties of the bureau shall be subject to review by the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature as if the chapter is scheduled to repealed on January 1, 2025.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 3254	California AB 3254 (20232024)	bill	Endowment care cemeteries reporting	enacted	Berman	7	25	8	2024-02-16	2024-09-25	openstates	ocd-bill/9cf33596-9346-42a6-8809-dbe427b77fc7	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3254	d5fc191469f058b194f41b5b90e581778721bc5357dd995d8d13f12066578341	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 3254 (20232024) — Endowment care cemeteries: reporting.

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 specifies that the powers and duties of the bureau shall be subject to review by the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature as if the chapter is scheduled to repealed on January 1, 2025.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/16/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/24/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/15/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/25/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB3254 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/05/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 3254 Business and Professions Assembly Third Reading By BERMAN — 71–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent AB3254 Berman et al. By Ashby — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 3254 Berman Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Berman — primary (person)
• Ashby — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2024-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
• 2024-03-11 Referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2024-04-16 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
• 2024-04-17 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2024-04-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-05-08 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2024-05-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 16). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 5534.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-05-23 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2024-06-05 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E. D. referral-committee
• 2024-06-24 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
• 2024-07-01 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-08-05 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2024-08-15 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 15). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2024-08-15 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-26 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2024-08-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-30 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2024-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-09-16 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2024-09-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-25 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 589, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9cf33596-9346-42a6-8809-dbe427b77fc7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).