--- type: "Bill" title: "Home inspectors: roofing contractors: roof inspections." description: "Existing law regulates a person who performs certain home inspections for a fee. Existing law provides that it is an unfair business practice for a home inspector, a company that employs the inspector, or a company that is controlled by a company that also has a financial interest in a company employing a home inspector, to do various acts, including performing or offering to perform, for an additional fee, any repairs to a structure on which the inspector, or the inspector's company, has prepared a home inspection report in the past 12 months." jurisdiction: "us/states/ca" legislature: "California Legislature" session: "20172018" identifier: "AB 1357" citation: "California AB 1357 (20172018)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: ["Home inspectors: roofing contractors: roof inspections."] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Chu"] version_count: 8 action_count: 25 vote_count: 1 first_action: "2017-02-17" last_action: "2017-10-05" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e814bdc0-664e-41dc-8e01-e9cd8d97254d" source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1357" source_hash: "a6c6e5de2897a3ae49ce3ddbc2b120a5c931d61db8b6f15d490f6b1b78f820b4" 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 1357 (20172018) — Home inspectors: roofing contractors: roof inspections. Existing law regulates a person who performs certain home inspections for a fee. Existing law provides that it is an unfair business practice for a home inspector, a company that employs the inspector, or a company that is controlled by a company that also has a financial interest in a company employing a home inspector, to do various acts, including performing or offering to perform, for an additional fee, any repairs to a structure on which the inspector, or the inspector's company, has prepared a home inspection report in the past 12 months. ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **02/17/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1357&version=20170AB135799INT) 2. **05/02/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1357&version=20170AB135798AMD) 3. **05/17/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1357&version=20170AB135797AMD) 4. **06/19/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1357&version=20170AB135796AMD) 5. **07/06/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1357&version=20170AB135795AMD) 6. **10/05/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1357&version=20170AB135793CHP) 7. **AB1357** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1357) 8. **09/07/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1357&version=20170AB135794ENR) ## Votes - AB 1357 CHU Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **64–7** (pass) · lower ## Sponsors - Chu — primary (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2017-02-17** Read first time. To print. `reading-1` - **2017-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21. - **2017-03-13** Referred to Com. on B. & P. `referral-committee` - **2017-05-01** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 25). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction` - **2017-05-02** Read second time and amended. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2` - **2017-05-03** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee` - **2017-05-17** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1` - **2017-05-18** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee` - **2017-05-24** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 24). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage` - **2017-05-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1` - **2017-05-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 54. Noes 17. Page 1848.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1` - **2017-05-30** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1` - **2017-06-08** Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `referral-committee` - **2017-06-19** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction` - **2017-06-27** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee. - **2017-07-06** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction` - **2017-07-11** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (July 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee` - **2017-08-21** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2` - **2017-08-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1` - **2017-08-31** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 1. Page 2341.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1` - **2017-08-31** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 2 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. - **2017-09-05** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 64. Noes 7. Page 2937.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage` - **2017-09-12** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m. - **2017-10-05** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature` - **2017-10-05** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 508, Statutes of 2017. ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e814bdc0-664e-41dc-8e01-e9cd8d97254d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).