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Bill	Residential real estate transfers: title insurance: escrow companies.	Existing law generally regulates the transfer of real property, and imposes specified obligations on a seller of real property. Existing law authorizes a mortgagee or beneficiary under a deed of trust to sell property securing the mortgage or deed of trust at a foreclosure sale under certain circumstances. Existing federal law prohibits a seller of property that will be purchased with the assistance of a federally related mortgage loan from requiring the buyer to purchase insurance from any particular company.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 957	California AB 957 (20092010)	bill	Residential real estate transfers: title insurance: escrow companies.	enacted	Galgiani	9	27	6	2009-02-26	2009-10-11	openstates	ocd-bill/6f67c583-20c3-4f9a-84cf-949cf2827cc0	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB957	82fb0e07a81e2b7834a256ae5eb0cfd98ad8e072acc59defa28bce42e22ecae6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 957 (20092010) — Residential real estate transfers: title insurance: escrow companies.

Existing law generally regulates the transfer of real property, and imposes specified obligations on a seller of real property. Existing law authorizes a mortgagee or beneficiary under a deed of trust to sell property securing the mortgage or deed of trust at a foreclosure sale under certain circumstances. Existing federal law prohibits a seller of property that will be purchased with the assistance of a federally related mortgage loan from requiring the buyer to purchase insurance from any particular company.

Version chain

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

1. 02/26/09 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/22/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/14/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/16/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/26/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/17/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/11/09 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB957 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/09/09 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 957 GALGIANI Concurrence in Senate Amendments — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Judiciary. — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 957 GALGIANI Assembly Third Reading — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Rules. — pass (pass) · upper
• Assembly 3rd Reading AB957 Galgiani Urgency Clause — pass (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Galgiani — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2009-02-26 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2009-02-27 From printer. May be heard in committee March 29.
• 2009-03-26 Referred to Coms. on B. & F. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2009-04-21 From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 10. Noes 1.) (April 20). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-04-22 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-04-23 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2009-05-13 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (May 5). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-05-14 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-05-18 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-05-26 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1685.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-05-27 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2009-06-11 Referred to Coms. on JUD. and RLS. referral-committee
• 2009-06-16 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
• 2009-06-25 From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on RLS. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 23). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-06-26 Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-07-02 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2009-07-07 Withdrawn from committee. Ordered placed on second reading file.
• 2009-07-08 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-08-17 Read third time, amended. To second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-08-18 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-09-01 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 4. Page 2070.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-09-02 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 4 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2009-09-03 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 2970.)
• 2009-09-03 Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 74. Noes 1. Page 2986.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2009-09-11 Enrolled and to the Governor at 7 p.m.
• 2009-10-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2009-10-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 264, Statutes of 2009.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6f67c583-20c3-4f9a-84cf-949cf2827cc0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).