---
type: "Bill"
title: "Residential hotels: locking mail receptacles."
description: "Residential hotels: locking mail receptacles."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20072008"
identifier: "AB 607"
citation: "California AB 607 (20072008)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Residential hotels: locking mail receptacles."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brownley"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2007-02-21"
last_action: "2007-10-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/97788c95-70d7-4dfd-83a6-f419ccd7f110"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB607"
source_hash: "0a2b5fb41c4030bc6c4e5c394fab38ba4ff27f162ed165a12830d8e6e41c43ba"
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 607 (20072008) — Residential hotels: locking mail receptacles.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/21/07 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB607&version=20070AB60799INT)
2. **04/17/07 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB607&version=20070AB60798AMD)
3. **10/13/07 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB607&version=20070AB60796CHP)
4. **AB607** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB607)
5. **09/05/07 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB607&version=20070AB60797ENR)

## Votes

- Assembly 3rd Reading AB607 Brownley By Ridley-Thomas — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 607 BROWNLEY Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brownley — primary (person)
- Hancock — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2007-02-21** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2007-02-22** From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
- **2007-03-01** Referred to Standing Committee on Housing and Community Development. `referral-committee`
- **2007-04-16** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 11). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2007-04-17** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage`
- **2007-04-18** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2007-05-03** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 7. Page 1289.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2007-05-03** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2007-05-09** Referred to Standing Committee on Transportation and Housing. `referral-committee`
- **2007-06-13** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 1.) . `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-06-14** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2007-08-30** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 7. Page 2171.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2007-08-30** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2007-09-06** Enrolled and to the Governor at 6 p.m.
- **2007-10-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2007-10-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 599, Statutes of 2007.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/97788c95-70d7-4dfd-83a6-f419ccd7f110`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).