---
type: "Bill"
title: "Real estate: licenses."
description: "Real estate: licenses."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20072008"
identifier: "AB 840"
citation: "California AB 840 (20072008)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Real estate: licenses."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Emmerson"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2007-02-22"
last_action: "2007-07-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/000f22d2-9359-47ca-bc55-8d4ebd1f1554"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB840"
source_hash: "42f65c452f5f620aed807bdc720f73f4e4615986fa163aa8e9539d7dd88ae9c0"
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 840 (20072008) — Real estate: licenses.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/22/07 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB840&version=20070AB84099INT)
2. **03/29/07 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB840&version=20070AB84098AMD)
3. **06/19/07 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB840&version=20070AB84097AMD)
4. **07/27/07 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB840&version=20070AB84095CHP)
5. **AB840** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB840)
6. **07/24/07 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB840&version=20070AB84096ENR)

## Votes

- AB 840 EMMERSON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent #12 AB840 Emmerson — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 840 EMMERSON Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Emmerson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2007-02-22** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2007-02-23** From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
- **2007-03-12** Referred to Standing Committee on Business, Professions and Consumer Protection. `referral-committee`
- **2007-03-29** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, referral-committee`
- **2007-04-09** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Business, Professions and Consumer Protection. `referral-committee`
- **2007-04-11** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (April 10). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-04-12** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2007-04-19** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 1075.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2007-04-19** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2007-05-02** Referred to Standing Committee on Business, Professions and Economic Development. `referral-committee`
- **2007-06-05** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2007-06-19** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Business, Professions and Economic Development. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-introduction, referral-committee, amendment-passage`
- **2007-06-25** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2007-07-03** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) . `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-07-05** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2007-07-09** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1727.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2007-07-09** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 11 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2007-07-20** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2577.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2007-07-24** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2:45 p.m.
- **2007-07-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2007-07-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 140, Statutes of 2007.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/000f22d2-9359-47ca-bc55-8d4ebd1f1554`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).