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type: "Bill"
title: "Family law: monetary awards."
description: "Existing law provides that, in addition to any other remedy authorized by law, when a spouse is convicted of attempting to murder the other spouse or of soliciting the murder of the other spouse, the injured spouse shall be entitled to 100% of the community property interest in his or her retirement and pension benefits, and a prohibition of specified support or insurance benefits from the injured spouse to the convicted spouse. Existing law defines \"injured spouse\" for these purposes. Under existing law, a family court is required to consider specified factors in ordering spousal support, including the criminal conviction of an abusive spouse."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 1522"
citation: "California AB 1522 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Family law: monetary awards."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Atkins"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 20
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2012-01-18"
last_action: "2012-09-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dbfefdc9-3ab3-41a4-8900-095963b9a8da"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1522"
source_hash: "2ef4387bdd4f38ea8539ad1258f3b5c4c7cdff7fdf9d190d99b35eb7f18f22b7"
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 1522 (20112012) — Family law: monetary awards.
Existing law provides that, in addition to any other remedy authorized by law, when a spouse is convicted of attempting to murder the other spouse or of soliciting the murder of the other spouse, the injured spouse shall be entitled to 100% of the community property interest in his or her retirement and pension benefits, and a prohibition of specified support or insurance benefits from the injured spouse to the convicted spouse. Existing law defines "injured spouse" for these purposes. Under existing law, a family court is required to consider specified factors in ordering spousal support, including the criminal conviction of an abusive spouse.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **01/18/12 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1522&version=20110AB152299INT)
2. **03/26/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1522&version=20110AB152298AMD)
3. **08/07/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1522&version=20110AB152297AMD)
4. **08/20/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1522&version=20110AB152296AMD)
5. **09/28/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1522&version=20110AB152294CHP)
6. **AB1522** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1522)
7. **08/31/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1522&version=20110AB152295ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass as amended. — **71** (pass) · lower
- AB 1522 ATKINS Assembly Third Reading — **750** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **40** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB1522 Atkins By Kehoe — **380** (pass) · upper
- AB 1522 ATKINS Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **800** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Atkins — primary (person)
- Alquist — principal coauthor (person)
- Anderson — principal coauthor (person)
- Block — coauthor (person)
- Fletcher — coauthor (person)
- Garrick — coauthor (person)
- Harkey — coauthor (person)
- Hueso — coauthor (person)
- Jeffries — principal coauthor (person)
- Jones — coauthor (person)
- Kehoe — coauthor (person)
- Liu — principal coauthor (person)
- Miller — coauthor (person)
- Mitchell — principal coauthor (person)
- Strickland — coauthor (person)
- Vargas — coauthor (person)
- Wyland — principal coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2012-01-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2012-01-19** From printer. May be heard in committee February 18.
- **2012-01-26** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2012-03-22** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (March 20). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-03-26** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-03-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-04-12** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 4334.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-04-12** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2012-04-19** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2012-08-06** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (July 3). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-08-07** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-08-20** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-08-21** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-08-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4757.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-08-24** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2012-08-27** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6357.)
- **2012-08-27** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6361.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2012-09-05** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:45 p.m.
- **2012-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2012-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 718, Statutes of 2012.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dbfefdc9-3ab3-41a4-8900-095963b9a8da`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).