CA AB 1957

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Mortgages: foreclosure.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Description

Existing law provides that a trustee's sale of property under a power of sale contained in a deed of trust or mortgage on real property containing one to 4 residential units is not final until the earliest of various time periods. Existing law provides specified eligible bidders, defined to include eligible tenant buyers, prospective owner-occupants, and eligible nonprofit corporations with certain attributes, various rights in connection with those sales, and sets forth procedures for eligible bidders to submit bids after those sales. Existing law authorizes the Attorney General, a county counsel, a city attorney, or a district attorney to bring an action to enforce these provisions as specified. This bill would instead provide that a trustee's sale of eligible property, as defined, is not final until the earliest of various time periods. The bill would change the term "eligible tenant buyer" to "eligible tenant bidder," and would redefine the term "eligible bidder" to remove prospective owner-occupants and to mean an eligible tenant bidder or an eligible community bidder, as defined. The bill would add an additional attribute to the eligible nonprofit corporations portion of "eligible community bidder." The bill would apply the provisions described above only to trustee's sales of eligible property, as defined. The bill would require eligible tenant bidders who submit bids pursuant to the procedures described above to include in the bid an amount equal to 1.2% of the last and highest bid at the trustee's sale. The bill would authorize the persons described above to seek a civil penalty to enforce these provisions, as specified. The bill would make conforming changes.

Introduced: 2026-03-27
Status date: —
Latest action: 2026-07-07 — Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

Subjects

Committees

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Action timeline

2026-02-13
Read first time. To print.
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2026-02-14
From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
2026-03-02
Referred to Com. on JUD.
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2026-03-16
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
2026-03-27
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended.
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2026-04-06
Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
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2026-04-08
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2026-04-22
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
2026-05-06
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 6).
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2026-05-07
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2026-05-07
Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 4973.)
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2026-05-26
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 1.)
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2026-05-27
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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2026-06-03
Referred to Com. on JUD.
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2026-07-07
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 30).
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2026-07-07
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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Versions

02/13/26 - Introduced — 2026-02-13Compare
03/27/26 - Amended Assembly — 2026-03-27Compare
05/07/26 - Amended Assembly — 2026-05-07Compare
07/07/26 - Amended Senate — 2026-07-07Compare
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Documents

Votes

Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
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
Do pass.
2026-05-06 · pass · 14-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Solache: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Fong: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Ta: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Krell: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Arambula: other
AB 1957 Pacheco Assembly Third Reading
2026-05-26 · pass · 70-1
Member-level votes (80)
- Hadwick: yes
- Ward: yes
- Patel: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Lee: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Ta: yes
- Haney: yes
- Flora: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Chen: yes
- Papan: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Johnson: yes
- Soria: yes
- Solache: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Krell: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Berman: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Davies: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Bains: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Fong: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Schiavo: no
- Hart: other
- Bauer-Kahan: other
- Castillo: other
- Zbur: other
- Addis: other
- Celeste Rodriguez: other
- Jackson: other
- Muratsuchi: other
- Garcia: other
Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2026-06-30 · pass · 13-0
Member-level votes (13)
- Wahab: yes
- Niello: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Laird: yes
- Stern: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Allen: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Reyes: yes
- Durazo: yes

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