---
type: "Bill"
title: "Tenancy: tenant's characteristics."
description: "Tenancy: tenant's characteristics."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20072008"
identifier: "AB 976"
citation: "California AB 976 (20072008)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Tenancy: tenant's characteristics."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles Calderon"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 22
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2007-02-22"
last_action: "2007-10-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8dcafa46-0176-4ae3-aac6-10b392032985"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB976"
source_hash: "eee5f040eac8c133e810951fed0428937ce7df6e431d5e64a25e3118cd4ef91d"
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 976 (20072008) — Tenancy: tenant's characteristics.

## 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=200720080AB976&version=20070AB97699INT)
2. **03/27/07 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB976&version=20070AB97698AMD)
3. **04/11/07 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB976&version=20070AB97697AMD)
4. **04/26/07 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB976&version=20070AB97696AMD)
5. **05/17/07 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB976&version=20070AB97695AMD)
6. **10/10/07 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB976&version=20070AB97693CHP)
7. **AB976** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB976)
8. **09/10/07 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB976&version=20070AB97694ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB976 Charles Calderon By Ducheny — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 976 CALDERON Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Charles Calderon — primary (person)
- Arambula — coauthor (person)
- Cedillo — coauthor (person)
- Coto — coauthor (person)
- De Leon — coauthor (person)
- Hernandez — coauthor (person)
- Mendoza — coauthor (person)
- Padilla — coauthor (person)
- Saldana — coauthor (person)
- Solorio — coauthor (person)
- Soto — coauthor (person)
- Torrico — coauthor (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 Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2007-03-27** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Judiciary Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, referral-committee`
- **2007-03-28** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2007-04-10** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2007-04-11** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Judiciary Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, referral-committee`
- **2007-04-12** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2007-04-25** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 3.) (April 17). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2007-04-26** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage`
- **2007-04-30** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2007-05-17** Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. (Page 1513.). `reading-1, reading-3, amendment-passage`
- **2007-05-24** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 44. Noes 25. Page 1626.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2007-05-24** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2007-06-07** Referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2007-06-19** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 3. Noes 2.) . `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-06-20** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2007-09-04** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 22. Noes 13. Page 2254.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2007-09-04** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2007-09-18** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2007-10-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2007-10-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 403, Statutes of 2007.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8dcafa46-0176-4ae3-aac6-10b392032985`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).