---
type: "Bill"
title: "Fire hazard severity zones: disclosures."
description: "Existing law generally requires the seller of a single-family residential property to make certain disclosures of natural hazards on a specified statement to a prospective buyer, including whether the property is located in a very high fire hazard severity zone."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 1280"
citation: "California AB 1280 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Fire hazard severity zones", "disclosures"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Maienschein"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-02-16"
last_action: "2023-07-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fe41266d-edae-4de1-8060-8ff1c9bcf1c8"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1280"
source_hash: "4e1a063e90c12de93050aca7ed6921e6619e54024c4f3df6178a1fd33740c550"
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 1280 (20232024) — Fire hazard severity zones: disclosures.

Existing law generally requires the seller of a single-family residential property to make certain disclosures of natural hazards on a specified statement to a prospective buyer, including whether the property is located in a very high fire hazard severity zone.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/16/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1280&version=20230AB128099INT)
2. **03/16/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1280&version=20230AB128098AMD)
3. **03/23/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1280&version=20230AB128097AMD)
4. **07/21/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1280&version=20230AB128095CHP)
5. **AB1280** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1280)
6. **06/30/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1280&version=20230AB128096ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1280 Maienschein Consent Calendar Second Day — **65–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Maienschein — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2023-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
- **2023-03-16** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-16** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-03-20** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-23** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-03-27** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-28** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (March 28). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-29** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-04-10** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 0. Page 1079.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-04-10** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-03** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-21** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 20). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-22** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-06-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1826.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-06-29** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2023-07-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2023-07-21** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2023-07-21** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 99, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fe41266d-edae-4de1-8060-8ff1c9bcf1c8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).