---
type: "Bill"
title: "Real estate: appraisal and valuation."
description: "Existing law, the Real Estate Law, provides for the licensure and regulation of real estate brokers and real estate salespersons by the Real Estate Commissioner and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law authorizes the commissioner to temporarily suspend or permanently revoke a real estate license when the licensee has been guilty of generating an inaccurate opinion of the value of residential real property in connection with a certain real estate transaction in order to, among other things, acquire a financial or business advantage that directly results from the inaccurate opinion of value."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "SB 6"
citation: "California SB 6 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Real estate: appraisal and valuation."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Calderon"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 30
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2010-12-06"
last_action: "2011-10-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/02de89a8-ee00-4d78-8d41-36aeb5defc15"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB6"
source_hash: "a65638d1ee6b6c7c9381ffcbcb4e01f3adedf8859e840fd3a22c911cca05cb70"
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 SB 6 (20112012) — Real estate: appraisal and valuation.

Existing law, the Real Estate Law, provides for the licensure and regulation of real estate brokers and real estate salespersons by the Real Estate Commissioner and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law authorizes the commissioner to temporarily suspend or permanently revoke a real estate license when the licensee has been guilty of generating an inaccurate opinion of the value of residential real property in connection with a certain real estate transaction in order to, among other things, acquire a financial or business advantage that directly results from the inaccurate opinion of value.

## Version chain

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

1. **12/06/10 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB6&version=20110SB699INT)
2. **02/18/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB6&version=20110SB698AMD)
3. **03/25/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB6&version=20110SB697AMD)
4. **04/11/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB6&version=20110SB696AMD)
5. **06/15/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB6&version=20110SB695AMD)
6. **07/07/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB6&version=20110SB694AMD)
7. **10/09/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB6&version=20110SB692CHP)
8. **SB6** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB6)
9. **09/08/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB6&version=20110SB693ENR)

## Votes

- Special Consent #9 — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Business, Professions and Economic Development. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Special Consent #3 — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 6 Calderon Consent Calendar Second Day — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Banking and Finance. — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **11–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Calderon — primary (person)
- Vargas — author (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2010-12-06** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2010-12-07** From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 6.
- **2011-01-20** Referred to Coms. on B. & F.I. and B., P. & E.D. `referral-committee`
- **2011-02-18** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.I. `reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-02-24** Set for hearing April 6.
- **2011-03-25** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.I. `reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-04-07** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on B., P. & E.D. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 579.) (April 6). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-04-11** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-04-12** Set for hearing May 2.
- **2011-05-03** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 847.) (May 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-06** Set for hearing May 16.
- **2011-05-17** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2011-05-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-05-18** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2011-05-23** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1064.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-05-23** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2011-06-02** Referred to Coms. on B., P. & C.P. and B. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-14** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on B. & F. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on B. & F. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-06-15** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. & F. `reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-06-28** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-07-07** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-08-18** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 17). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-08-22** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-08-25** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2595.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-08-25** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2011-08-31** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2011-09-06** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2318.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2011-09-12** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2011-10-09** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2011-10-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 716, Statutes of 2011.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/02de89a8-ee00-4d78-8d41-36aeb5defc15`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).