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Bill	Mortgages and deeds of trust: foreclosure.	(1) Existing law requires that, upon a breach of the obligation of a mortgage or transfer of an interest in property, the mortgagee, trustee, or beneficiary record a notice of default in the office of the county recorder where the mortgaged or trust property is situated and mail the notice of default to the mortgagor or trustor. Existing law specifies other requirements and procedures for completion of a foreclosure sale, including recording a notice of sale prior to exercising a power of sale. Existing law requires, under specified circumstances, that a summary of mortgage terms be provided to the borrower in one of 5 specified languages.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 1599	California AB 1599 (20112012)	bill	Mortgages and deeds of trust: foreclosure.	enacted	Feuer	9	31	7	2012-02-06	2012-09-25	openstates	ocd-bill/b06d42c9-6119-4d21-86ce-8817da61316a	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1599	84d6149e7b290a17097544c9d4115f9b9aab2ee4d8db5a4aff16abc5b9e53182	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1599 (20112012) — Mortgages and deeds of trust: foreclosure.

(1) Existing law requires that, upon a breach of the obligation of a mortgage or transfer of an interest in property, the mortgagee, trustee, or beneficiary record a notice of default in the office of the county recorder where the mortgaged or trust property is situated and mail the notice of default to the mortgagor or trustor. Existing law specifies other requirements and procedures for completion of a foreclosure sale, including recording a notice of sale prior to exercising a power of sale. Existing law requires, under specified circumstances, that a summary of mortgage terms be provided to the borrower in one of 5 specified languages.

Version chain

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

1. 02/06/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/11/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/30/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/06/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/24/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/30/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/25/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB1599 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/11/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1599 FEUER Assembly Third Reading — 49–25 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 12–5 (pass) · lower
• AB 1599 FEUER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 58–19 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Judiciary. — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 9–1 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1599 Feuer By Vargas — 29–9 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Feuer — primary (person)
• Cedillo — coauthor (person)
• Dickinson — coauthor (person)
• Eng — principal coauthor (person)
• Fong — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-06 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2012-02-07 From printer. May be heard in committee March 8.
• 2012-03-29 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2012-04-11 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-04-12 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2012-04-26 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (April 17). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-04-30 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-05-01 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2012-05-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 16). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-17 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-21 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 49. Noes 25. Page 4922.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-05-21 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-05-31 Referred to Coms. on B. & F.I. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2012-06-13 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2012-06-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-06 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (July 3). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-06 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-08-06 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2012-08-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-24 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-30 Pursuant to Joint Rule 33.1,
• 2012-08-30 Joint Rule 61(b)(16) suspended. (Page 5015.)
• 2012-08-30 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 5038.) reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 9. Page 5083.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2012-08-31 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 6775.)
• 2012-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 58. Noes 19. Page 6780.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
• 2012-09-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-25 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 556, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b06d42c9-6119-4d21-86ce-8817da61316a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).