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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Veterans' remains."
description: "Existing law regulates the custody, control, and interment of human remains."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 1644"
citation: "California AB 1644 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Veterans' remains."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nielsen"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 27
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2010-01-12"
last_action: "2010-08-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a856b6a9-385b-4ae1-90ce-a2192f875168"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1644"
source_hash: "cd0f3d4db5dd67e502fda69b306c205ca457dc20e1168cc557dbf3d0923361ff"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---
# California AB 1644 (20092010) — Veterans' remains.
Existing law regulates the custody, control, and interment of human remains.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **01/12/10 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1644&version=20090AB164499INT)
2. **03/11/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1644&version=20090AB164498AMD)
3. **03/17/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1644&version=20090AB164497AMD)
4. **04/06/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1644&version=20090AB164496AMD)
5. **06/02/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1644&version=20090AB164495AMD)
6. **08/02/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1644&version=20090AB164494AMD)
7. **08/27/10 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1644&version=20090AB164492CHP)
8. **AB1644** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1644)
9. **08/12/10 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1644&version=20090AB164493ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 1644 NIELSEN Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Judiciary. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Amend, and do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Veterans Affairs with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 1644 NIELSEN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd AB1644 Nielsen — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Nielsen — primary (person)
- Aanestad — coauthor (person)
- Arambula — principal coauthor (person)
- Blakeslee — coauthor (person)
- Block — coauthor (person)
- Blumenfield — coauthor (person)
- Bradford — coauthor (person)
- Conway — coauthor (person)
- Cox — coauthor (person)
- DeVore — coauthor (person)
- Denham — coauthor (person)
- Fletcher — coauthor (person)
- Gilmore — coauthor (person)
- Hagman — coauthor (person)
- Harkey — coauthor (person)
- Ma — coauthor (person)
- Maldonado — coauthor (person)
- Niello — coauthor (person)
- Norby — coauthor (person)
- Runner — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2010-01-12** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2010-01-13** From printer. May be heard in committee February 12.
- **2010-01-21** Referred to Coms. on V.A. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2010-03-04** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. by unanimous consent, and then be re-referred to Com. on V.A. `referral-committee`
- **2010-03-08** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2010-03-11** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2010-03-15** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2010-03-17** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2010-03-18** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2010-04-05** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on V.A. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (March 23). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2010-04-06** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-04-07** Re-referred to Com. on V.A. `referral-committee`
- **2010-04-14** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 13). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-04-15** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-04-22** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 4792.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-04-22** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2010-05-06** Referred to Coms. on V.A. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2010-06-02** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on V.A. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2010-06-23** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Re-referred. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 22). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-07-15** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (June 29). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2010-08-02** Read second time and amended. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-08-05** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 4371.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-08-05** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 7 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2010-08-09** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6089.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2010-08-16** Enrolled and to the Governor at 4:55 p.m.
- **2010-08-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2010-08-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 189, Statutes of 2010.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a856b6a9-385b-4ae1-90ce-a2192f875168`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).