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Bill	Real estate licensees.	(1) The Real Estate Law provides for the regulation and licensure of real estate brokers and real estate salespersons by the Real Estate Commissioner and makes any person who willfully violates or knowingly participates in the violation of its provisions guilty of a crime. Existing law authorizes the commissioner, upon his or her own motion, and requires the commissioner upon the verified complaint in writing of any person, to investigate the actions of a real estate licensee who has engaged in specified acts. If the commissioner finds that a licensee has committed those acts, existing law authorizes the commissioner to suspend or revoke the license of the licensee or to, instead, impose specified monetary penalties, which are required to be credited to the Recovery Account in the Real Estate Fund.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	SB 53	California SB 53 (20112012)	bill	Real estate licensees.	enacted	Calderon	11	36	8	2010-12-16	2011-10-09	openstates	ocd-bill/e84cbc90-0915-4933-a526-87b396e0bd70	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB53	27c497785aee0609589ab8d8c2080ba98e6b715d791ed61021437e3d425b4943	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 53 (20112012) — Real estate licensees.

(1) The Real Estate Law provides for the regulation and licensure of real estate brokers and real estate salespersons by the Real Estate Commissioner and makes any person who willfully violates or knowingly participates in the violation of its provisions guilty of a crime. Existing law authorizes the commissioner, upon his or her own motion, and requires the commissioner upon the verified complaint in writing of any person, to investigate the actions of a real estate licensee who has engaged in specified acts. If the commissioner finds that a licensee has committed those acts, existing law authorizes the commissioner to suspend or revoke the license of the licensee or to, instead, impose specified monetary penalties, which are required to be credited to the Recovery Account in the Real Estate Fund.

Version chain

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

1. 12/16/10 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 02/07/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/22/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/11/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 04/14/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 05/16/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 06/15/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/29/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
9. 10/09/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. SB53 (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/12/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 8–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Business, Professions and Economic Development. — 6–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Banking and Finance. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 53 Calderon Senate Third Reading By HARKEY — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB53 Calderon Concurrence — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Calderon — primary (person)
• Vargas — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2010-12-16 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2010-12-17 From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 16.
• 2011-01-03 Read first time. reading-1
• 2011-01-20 Referred to Coms. on B. & F.I. and B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2011-02-07 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.I. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-02-24 Set for hearing April 6.
• 2011-03-22 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.I. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-04-07 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on B., P. & E.D. (Ayes 6. Noes 1. Page 579.) (April 6). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-04-11 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-04-12 Set for hearing May 2.
• 2011-04-14 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-05-03 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 1. Page 847.) (May 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-06 Set for hearing May 16.
• 2011-05-10 Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2011-05-13 Set for hearing May 23.
• 2011-05-16 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-05-23 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2011-05-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-05-31 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1183.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-06-01 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2011-06-09 Referred to Coms. on B., P. & C.P. and B. & F. referral-committee
• 2011-06-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on B. & F. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on B. & F. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-06-15 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. & F. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-06-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-08-18 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 17). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-08-25 From consent calendar.
• 2011-08-25 Ordered to third reading.
• 2011-08-29 Read third time and amended. (Page 2639.) reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-08-29 Ordered to third reading.
• 2011-09-07 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2992.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-09-07 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2011-09-08 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2405.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-14 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
• 2011-10-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-10-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 717, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e84cbc90-0915-4933-a526-87b396e0bd70. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).