CA AB 2331
enactedCemeteries: removal of remains.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower
Description
Existing law prohibits a cemetery authority from removing or permitting the removal of any interred remains, unless a permit for the removal has been issued by the local registrar of the district in which the premises are located, and delivered to the cemetery authority. Existing law authorizes the removal of the remains of a deceased person from a plot in a cemetery with the consent of the cemetery authority and the written consent of the surviving spouse, children, parents, or brothers or sisters, in that order. Under existing law, if the required consent cannot be obtained, permission by the superior court of the county where the cemetery is situated is sufficient. This bill would require a court to grant an application for permission upon a showing of good cause.
- Introduced
- 2026-03-16
- Status date
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- Latest action
- 2026-07-13 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 74, Statutes of 2026.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
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Committees
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Action timeline
2026-02-19
Read first time. To print.
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2026-02-20
From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
2026-03-16
Referred to Com. on JUD.
referral-committee
2026-03-16
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended.
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2026-03-17
Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
referral-committee
2026-04-08
From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 7).
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2026-04-09
Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
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2026-04-16
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 0. Page 4681.)
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2026-04-16
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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2026-05-06
Referred to Com. on JUD.
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2026-06-17
From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 16).
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2026-06-18
Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
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2026-06-25
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0.).
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2026-06-25
In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.
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2026-07-02
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
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2026-07-13
Approved by the Governor.
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2026-07-13
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 74, Statutes of 2026.
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Votes
Do pass. To Consent Calendar.
2026-04-07 · pass · 12-0
Member-level votes (12)
- Macedo: yes
- Papan: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Lee: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Bryan: yes
AB 2331 Nguyen Consent Calendar Second Day
2026-04-16 · pass · 68-0
Member-level votes (80)
- Patel: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Ta: yes
- Lee: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Fong: yes
- Addis: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Haney: yes
- Wilson: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Chen: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Solache: yes
- Johnson: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Ward: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Soria: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Krell: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Davies: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Bains: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Flora: other
- Berman: other
- Hart: other
- Papan: other
- Arambula: other
- Dixon: other
- Bonta: other
- Schiavo: other
- Celeste Rodriguez: other
- Irwin: other
- Hoover: other
- Harabedian: other
Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar
2026-06-16 · pass · 11-0
Member-level votes (13)
- Wahab: yes
- Allen: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Stern: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Reyes: yes
- Niello: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Laird: yes
- Ashby: other
- Weber Pierson: other
Consent Calendar 2nd
2026-06-25 · pass · 36-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Gonzalez: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Limón: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Grove: yes
- Laird: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Niello: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Allen: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Choi: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Becker: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Stern: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Dahle: other
- Reyes: other
- Jones: other
- Alvarado-Gil: other
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