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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Real estate transfer fees: prohibition."
+description: "Existing law allows various fees to be included in the price of a residential real estate transfer. Existing law defines a \"transfer fee\" with respect to real property as a fee payment requirement imposed in any covenant, restriction, or condition contained in any deed, contract, security instrument, or other document affecting the transfer or sale of real property that requires a fee be paid upon transfer of the real property, with specified exceptions."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20172018"
+identifier: "AB 3041"
+citation: "California AB 3041 (20172018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Real estate transfer fees: prohibition."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Cunningham"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2018-02-16"
+last_action: "2018-09-07"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/42505e82-e2e1-4bb2-a594-8ba58d0363e3"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB3041"
+source_hash: "5c104f621cd12f7bcbc4d2fa86702ac9b9e1a8d12664408d0e06f06749f1b6d5"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
+---
+
+# California AB 3041 (20172018) — Real estate transfer fees: prohibition.
+
+Existing law allows various fees to be included in the price of a residential real estate transfer. Existing law defines a "transfer fee" with respect to real property as a fee payment requirement imposed in any covenant, restriction, or condition contained in any deed, contract, security instrument, or other document affecting the transfer or sale of real property that requires a fee be paid upon transfer of the real property, with specified exceptions.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/16/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB3041&version=20170AB304199INT)
+2. **04/24/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB3041&version=20170AB304198AMD)
+3. **09/07/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB3041&version=20170AB304196CHP)
+4. **AB3041** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB3041)
+5. **08/15/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB3041&version=20170AB304197ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do pass. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
+- AB 3041 CUNNINGHAM Assembly Third Reading — **72–0** (pass) · lower
+- Consent Calendar AB3041 — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Cunningham — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2018-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
+- **2018-03-15** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-04-24** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2018-04-25** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-05-01** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (May 1). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2018-05-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2018-05-03** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 5002.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2018-05-03** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2018-05-17** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-06-11** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
+- **2018-07-03** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 3). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2018-07-05** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2018-08-13** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 5277.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2018-08-14** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
+- **2018-08-20** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
+- **2018-09-07** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2018-09-07** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 306, Statutes of 2018.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/42505e82-e2e1-4bb2-a594-8ba58d0363e3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
+