---
type: "Bill"
title: "Tenancy: credit reporting: lower income households."
description: "Existing law regulates the terms and conditions of residential tenancies, and requires a landlord to provide a tenant with various notices at the time the lease is executed and throughout the tenancy."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "SB 1157"
citation: "California SB 1157 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Tenancy: credit reporting: lower income households."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bradford"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 23
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2020-02-20"
last_action: "2020-09-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/859beeb1-5236-4a3b-ba01-42510c01da09"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1157"
source_hash: "2bd2ec73034d50c35a1db995358b721a6d992cc30116e2c736f2ef1ee90af132"
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 1157 (20192020) — Tenancy: credit reporting: lower income households.

Existing law regulates the terms and conditions of residential tenancies, and requires a landlord to provide a tenant with various notices at the time the lease is executed and throughout the tenancy.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/20/20 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1157&version=20190SB115799INT)
2. **03/24/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1157&version=20190SB115798AMD)
3. **05/11/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1157&version=20190SB115797AMD)
4. **05/29/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1157&version=20190SB115796AMD)
5. **07/27/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1157&version=20190SB115795AMD)
6. **07/28/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1157&version=20190SB115794AMD)
7. **09/28/20 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1157&version=20190SB115792CHP)
8. **SB1157** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1157)
9. **09/01/20 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1157&version=20190SB115793ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading — **29–4** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **9–1** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB1157 Bradford et al. Concurrence — **30–8** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 1157 Bradford Senate Third Reading By Reyes — **57–6** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bradford — primary (person)
- Hueso — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-20** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2020-02-21** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
- **2020-03-05** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-24** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-05-11** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-05-12** Set for hearing May 22.
- **2020-05-28** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3584.) (May 22). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2020-05-29** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-06-11** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 4. Page 3675.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-06-11** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2020-06-18** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2020-07-09** July 22 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2020-07-27** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-07-27** July 30 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2020-07-28** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-08-12** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (August 12). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2020-08-13** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-08-24** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 57. Noes 6. Page 5173.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-08-24** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2020-08-28** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 30. Noes 8. Page 4396.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-09-04** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2020-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2020-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 204, Statutes of 2020.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/859beeb1-5236-4a3b-ba01-42510c01da09`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).