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type: "Bill"
title: "Estates and trusts: property: wrongful taking."
description: "Existing law provides that if a court finds that a person has, in bad faith, wrongfully taken, concealed, or disposed of property belonging to the estate of a decedent, conservatee, minor, or trust, the person is liable for twice the value of the property."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 354"
citation: "California AB 354 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Estates and trusts: property: wrongful taking."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Silva"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2011-02-10"
last_action: "2011-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/431d7bda-7221-423f-881c-3f0e7885e3ca"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB354"
source_hash: "4a5556845771254770729ba0290f469ef5dd2c39a71aa6b12c01f518a893d426"
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 354 (20112012) — Estates and trusts: property: wrongful taking.
Existing law provides that if a court finds that a person has, in bad faith, wrongfully taken, concealed, or disposed of property belonging to the estate of a decedent, conservatee, minor, or trust, the person is liable for twice the value of the property.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/10/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB354&version=20110AB35499INT)
2. **03/21/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB354&version=20110AB35498AMD)
3. **07/01/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB354&version=20110AB35496CHP)
4. **AB354** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB354)
5. **06/15/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB354&version=20110AB35497ENR)
## Votes
- AB 354 SILVA Consent Calendar Second Day — **710** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **390** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, to Consent Calendar. — **100** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — **50** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Silva — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2011-02-10** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2011-02-11** From printer. May be heard in committee March 13.
- **2011-02-24** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-17** From committee: Do pass as amended. To consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (March 15). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-03-21** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-03-22** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-03-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 702.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-03-25** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2011-04-07** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-07** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 7). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-06-08** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-06-10** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1377.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-06-13** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2011-06-21** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:40 a.m.
- **2011-06-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2011-07-01** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 55, Statutes of 2011.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/431d7bda-7221-423f-881c-3f0e7885e3ca`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).