Civil actions: wrongful death.

Existing law specifies the persons who may bring a civil action for the death of a person caused by the wrongful act or neglect of another, and includes among those persons the decedent's parents if they were entitled to the decedent's property by intestate secession or if they were dependent on the decedent. This bill would also authorize a decedent's legal guardians to bring a civil action if the decedent's parents were authorized to bring a civil action but they are deceased, or if the legal guardians were dependent on the decedent and the decedent's parents are deceased. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.