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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Senate Bill

SB 777: Abandoned cemeteries: report.

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 777 is a senate bill introduced in the California Senate on February 21, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Abandoned cemeteries: report. Primary sponsor: Laura Richardson (D). Most recent recorded action (October 11, 2025): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 658, Statutes of 2025.

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Official summary

Legislative Counsel’s Digest (official, as of the latest version). Written by nonpartisan legislative staff; reproduced verbatim.

Existing law, the Cemetery and Funeral Act, establishes the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau within the Department of Consumer Affairs and sets forth its powers and duties relating to the licensure and regulation of cemeteries, crematories, funeral establishments, and their personnel. Existing law requires the bureau, on or before July 1, 2027, to convene a workgroup composed of representatives from the cemetery, county government, and other interested stakeholders to discuss options for ensuring continued care, maintenance, and embellishment of abandoned cemeteries, including the possibility of requiring counties to assume responsibility for abandoned cemeteries. Existing law requires the bureau to submit a report to the Legislature summarizing the workgroup’s discussions and its recommendations by January 1, 2028. Existing law repeals those provisions on January 1, 2029.

This bill would instead require the bureau to convene the workgroup on or before March 1, 2026, would revise the list of representatives required to be included in the workgroup, and would instead require the workgroup to discuss the possibility of requiring counties to assume responsibility for maintenance, irrigation, public works, and burial services for abandoned cemeteries. The bill would require the board to submit the report on June 1, 2026, and would repeal those provisions on January 1, 2027.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Laura RichardsonPrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate35

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 658, Statutes of 2025.
  2. Approved by the Governor.
  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
  4. Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 3006.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
  5. From committee: That the Assembly amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 3064.)
  6. From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on B. P. & E.D. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 2851.) Re-referred to Com. on B. P. & E.D.
  7. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d).
  8. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
  9. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3171.) Ordered to the Senate.
  10. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
  11. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 20).
  12. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96.

Sources

  1. California Legislative Information — pubinfo database export
  2. Official bill page