Existing law provides that a judgment lien on personal property is a lien on all interests in specified personal property, including accounts receivable, chattel paper, equipment, farm products, inventory, and negotiable documents of title, that are subject to enforcement of a money judgment against the judgment debtor at the time the lien is created if a security interest in the property could be perfected by filing a financing statement at that time with the Secretary of State, as specified.
California AB 1549 (20092010) — Judgment liens: priority.
Existing law provides that a judgment lien on personal property is a lien on all interests in specified personal property, including accounts receivable, chattel paper, equipment, farm products, inventory, and negotiable documents of title, that are subject to enforcement of a money judgment against the judgment debtor at the time the lien is created if a security interest in the property could be perfected by filing a financing statement at that time with the Secretary of State, as specified.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · upper
Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Banking and Finance to Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower
AB 1549 B.& F. Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — pass (pass) · lower
Consent Calendar 2nd AB1549 Committee on B. & F. (Nava) — pass (pass) · upper
Sponsors
Committee on Banking and Finance — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2009-03-09 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2009-03-10 From printer. May be heard in committee April 9.
2009-04-02 Referred to Coms. on JUD. and B. & F. referral-committee
2009-04-13 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
2009-04-15 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
2009-04-21 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on B. & F. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 21). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2009-05-05 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 4). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2009-05-06 Read second time. To Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
2009-05-11 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1368.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
2009-05-11 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2009-05-21 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
2009-06-16 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (June 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2009-06-17 Read second time. To Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
2009-06-22 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1376.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
2009-06-22 In Assembly. To enrollment.
2009-06-25 Enrolled and to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
2009-07-01 Withdrawn from Governor.
2009-07-01 Ordered returned to enrollment.
2009-07-30 Enrolled and to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
2009-08-05 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2009-08-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 153, Statutes of 2009.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2cd805d0-336b-41ac-bc72-742da592b0e6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).