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Bill	Unlawful detainer: service of notice.	Existing law governs unlawful detainer proceedings to effect the removal of a tenant from the property. Existing law specifies the manner of serving notice upon a tenant under those circumstances. Existing law requires service of the notice by delivering a copy to the tenant personally. If the tenant is absent from his or her place of residence, and from his or her usual place of business, existing law provides that notice may be served by leaving a copy with some person of suitable age and discretion at either place, and sending a copy through the mail addressed to the tenant at his or her place of residence. If the residence and business cannot be ascertained, or a person of suitable age and discretion there cannot be found, existing law authorizes the notice to be served by affixing a copy in a conspicuous place on the property and delivering a copy to the person there residing, if that person can be found, and by sending a copy through the mail addressed to the tenant at the place where the property is situated.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 1263	California AB 1263 (20092010)	bill	Unlawful detainer: service of notice.	enacted	Audra Strickland	10	33	5	2009-02-27	2010-08-17	openstates	ocd-bill/30bc04a3-ebba-48dd-a88b-f70fd24cce4e	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1263	4cd1d828e2c3187222e1fcaf41f42a53c7be104a7d3ae685d1ba2d20ea411f81	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1263 (20092010) — Unlawful detainer: service of notice.

Existing law governs unlawful detainer proceedings to effect the removal of a tenant from the property. Existing law specifies the manner of serving notice upon a tenant under those circumstances. Existing law requires service of the notice by delivering a copy to the tenant personally. If the tenant is absent from his or her place of residence, and from his or her usual place of business, existing law provides that notice may be served by leaving a copy with some person of suitable age and discretion at either place, and sending a copy through the mail addressed to the tenant at his or her place of residence. If the residence and business cannot be ascertained, or a person of suitable age and discretion there cannot be found, existing law authorizes the notice to be served by affixing a copy in a conspicuous place on the property and delivering a copy to the person there residing, if that person can be found, and by sending a copy through the mail addressed to the tenant at the place where the property is situated.

Version chain

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

1. 02/27/09 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/04/10 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 01/13/10 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/16/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 04/27/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/07/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 06/24/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/17/10 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB1263 (committee substitute) — source
10. 08/04/10 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — pass (pass) · upper
• AB 1263 STRICKLAND Consent Calendar Second Day — pass (pass) · lower
• Special Consent #29 AB1263 Audra Strickland By Correa — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 1263 STRICKLAND Concurrence in Senate Amendments — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Audra Strickland — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2009-02-27 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2009-03-01 From printer. May be heard in committee March 30.
• 2009-03-02 Read first time. reading-1
• 2009-03-31 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2009-04-16 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-04-20 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2009-04-27 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-04-28 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2009-05-05 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2009-05-12 In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2010-01-04 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2010-01-04 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2010-01-12 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (January 12). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2010-01-13 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-01-14 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2010-01-19 To second reading.
• 2010-01-20 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-01-25 To Consent Calendar.
• 2010-01-27 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 0. Page 3911.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2010-01-28 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2010-02-11 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2010-06-07 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2010-06-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 15). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2010-06-17 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-06-24 Read third time, amended. To second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2010-06-28 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-06-30 Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
• 2010-07-01 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 4203.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2010-07-01 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 8 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2010-08-02 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5990.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2010-08-06 Enrolled and to the Governor at 4:15 p.m.
• 2010-08-17 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2010-08-17 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 144, Statutes of 2010.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/30bc04a3-ebba-48dd-a88b-f70fd24cce4e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).