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CA SB 29

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Civil actions: decedent's cause of action.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

Description

Existing law provides that a cause of action that survives the death of the person entitled to commence an action or proceeding passes to the decedent's successor in interest and an action may be commenced by the decedent's personal representative or, if none, by the decedent's successor in interest. Existing law provides that the damages recoverable in that action or proceeding include the loss or damage that the decedent sustained or incurred before death, including any penalties or punitive or exemplary damages that the decedent would have been entitled to recover had the decedent lived. Existing law also permits damages for a decedent's pain, suffering, or disfigurement to be recovered in an action brought by the decedent's personal representative or successor in interest if the action or proceeding was granted a specified preference before January 1, 2022, or was filed on or after January 1, 2022, and before January 1, 2026. Existing law requires a plaintiff who recovers damages for pain, suffering, or disfigurement between specified dates to submit to the Judicial Council a copy of the judgment, consent judgment, or court-approved settlement agreement entitling the plaintiff to the damages and a cover sheet containing specified information. Existing law requires the Judicial Council to transmit to the Legislature a report detailing this information, as specified. This bill would extend the time frame for a decedent's personal representative or successor in interest to file an action to recover damages for a decedent's pain, suffering, or disfigurement to January 1, 2027. The bill would extend the requirement that a plaintiff who recovers such damages report specified information about the action to the Judicial Council to include damages recovered through July 31, 2026. The bill would authorize any party to an action to submit the required information to the Judicial Council. The bill would extend to January 1, 2027, the deadline for the Judicial Council to submit a report to the Legislature and would change the period covered by the report to January 1, 2025, through July 31, 2026.

Introduced
2024-12-02
Status date
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Latest action
2025-09-13 — Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Aguiar-Curry.
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Lairdauthor
  • Kalracoauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2024-12-02

    Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

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  2. 2024-12-03

    From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 2.

  3. 2025-01-29

    Referred to Coms. on JUD. and APPR.

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  4. 2025-03-13

    Set for hearing April 1.

  5. 2025-04-02

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 2. Page 609.) (April 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  6. 2025-04-04

    Set for hearing April 21.

  7. 2025-04-21

    April 21 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

  8. 2025-05-16

    Set for hearing May 23.

  9. 2025-05-23

    From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 1188.) (May 23).

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  10. 2025-05-23

    Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

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  11. 2025-05-27

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  12. 2025-06-04

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 21. Noes 10. Page 1516.) Ordered to the Assembly.

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  13. 2025-06-05

    In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

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  14. 2025-06-16

    Referred to Com. on JUD.

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  15. 2025-07-09

    Coauthors revised.

  16. 2025-07-09

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 3.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  17. 2025-08-20

    August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.

  18. 2025-08-29

    August 29 hearing postponed by committee.

  19. 2025-09-09

    From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  20. 2025-09-10

    Assembly Rule 96 suspended. (Ayes 55. Noes 18. Page 3163.)

  21. 2025-09-10

    Withdrawn from committee.

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  22. 2025-09-10

    Ordered to third reading.

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  23. 2025-09-13

    Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Aguiar-Curry.

Versions

  • 12/02/24 - Introduced — 2024-12-02Compare
  • 05/23/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-05-23Compare
  • 09/09/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-09-09Compare
  • SB29Compare
  • (document, no version)Compare

Documents

Votes

  • Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]

    2025-04-01 · pass · 9-2

    Member-level votes (13)
    • Ashby: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Stern: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Niello: no
    • Valladares: no
    • Weber Pierson: other
    • Caballero: other

  • Placed on suspense file

    2025-04-21 · pass · 6-0

    Member-level votes (7)
    • Grayson: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Dahle: other

  • Do pass as amended

    2025-05-23 · pass · 5-1

    Member-level votes (7)
    • Caballero: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Seyarto: no
    • Dahle: other

  • 3rd Reading

    2025-06-04 · pass · 21-10

    Member-level votes (40)
    • Durazo: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Limón: yes
    • Pérez: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Cervantes: yes
    • McGuire: yes
    • Stern: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Blakespear: yes
    • McNerney: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Becker: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Jones: no
    • Valladares: no
    • Strickland: no
    • Seyarto: no
    • Alvarado-Gil: no
    • Ochoa Bogh: no
    • Choi: no
    • Dahle: no
    • Niello: no
    • Grove: no
    • Reyes: other
    • Caballero: other
    • Weber Pierson: other
    • Rubio: other
    • Grayson: other
    • Richardson: other
    • Hurtado: other
    • Archuleta: other
    • Cabaldon: other

  • Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]

    2025-07-08 · pass · 9-3

    Member-level votes (12)
    • Bryan: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Macedo: no
    • Sanchez: no
    • Dixon: no

Related bills

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Official source

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB29

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