The Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act.
Existing law, the Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act, generally authorizes a decedent's fiduciary to access and manage digital assets and electronic communications, as specified. The act authorizes a user, defined to mean a person who has an account with a custodian, to use an online tool to direct the custodian to disclose or not disclose the user's digital assets to a designated recipient, which is defined to mean a person chosen by a user using an online tool to administer digital assets of the user. The act specifies that, if a user has not used an online tool to give that direction, the user may give direction regarding the disclosure of digital assets in a will, trust, power of attorney, or other record to a fiduciary. The act defines "fiduciary" for purposes of the act to mean an original, additional, or successor personal representative or trustee. Under existing law, the act applies in certain situations, including when a fiduciary is acting under a will.
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California Legislature
20232024
SB 1458
California SB 1458 (20232024)
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The Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act
California SB 1458 (20232024) — The Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act.
Existing law, the Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act, generally authorizes a decedent's fiduciary to access and manage digital assets and electronic communications, as specified. The act authorizes a user, defined to mean a person who has an account with a custodian, to use an online tool to direct the custodian to disclose or not disclose the user's digital assets to a designated recipient, which is defined to mean a person chosen by a user using an online tool to administer digital assets of the user. The act specifies that, if a user has not used an online tool to give that direction, the user may give direction regarding the disclosure of digital assets in a will, trust, power of attorney, or other record to a fiduciary. The act defines "fiduciary" for purposes of the act to mean an original, additional, or successor personal representative or trustee. Under existing law, the act applies in certain situations, including when a fiduciary is acting under a will.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
SB 1458 Allen Senate Third Reading By Gabriel — 77–0 (pass) · lower
Unfinished Business SB1458 Allen Concurrence — 33–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 8–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
Allen — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2024-02-16 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
2024-02-20 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
2024-02-29 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
2024-03-18 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2024-03-19 Set for hearing April 2.
2024-03-21 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2024-04-03 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 3449.) (April 2). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2024-04-04 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
2024-04-11 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 3575.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2024-04-11 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2024-04-29 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
2024-06-04 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 4). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2024-06-05 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
2024-06-06 From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Gabriel.
2024-06-06 Ordered to third reading.
2024-08-08 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
2024-08-08 Ordered to third reading.
2024-08-19 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6370.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2024-08-20 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2024-08-22 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 5292.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2024-08-27 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
2024-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2024-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 799, Statutes of 2024. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d729d7da-536c-4cdd-b7e6-1f265e6249a6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).