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Bill	Mortgages and deeds of trust: foreclosure.	(1) Existing law, until January 1, 2013, requires a mortgagee, trustee, beneficiary, or authorized agent to contact the borrower prior to filing a notice of default to explore options for the borrower to avoid foreclosure, as specified. Existing law requires a notice of default or, in certain circumstances, a notice of sale, to include a declaration stating that the mortgagee, trustee, beneficiary, or authorized agent has contacted the borrower, has tried with due diligence to contact the borrower, or that no contact was required for a specified reason.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	SB 900	California SB 900 (20112012)	bill	Mortgages and deeds of trust: foreclosure.	enacted	Leno	7	43	10	2011-02-18	2012-07-11	openstates	ocd-bill/a298a544-1095-4478-9074-105e7ad1d938	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB900	1dd269f112a3828f93c3032c830753b6d75a77d53ab41be144247e1a7f3c4d96	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 900 (20112012) — Mortgages and deeds of trust: foreclosure.

(1) Existing law, until January 1, 2013, requires a mortgagee, trustee, beneficiary, or authorized agent to contact the borrower prior to filing a notice of default to explore options for the borrower to avoid foreclosure, as specified. Existing law requires a notice of default or, in certain circumstances, a notice of sale, to include a declaration stating that the mortgagee, trustee, beneficiary, or authorized agent has contacted the borrower, has tried with due diligence to contact the borrower, or that no contact was required for a specified reason.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/06/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/26/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/09/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/11/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB900 (committee substitute) — source
7. 07/03/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Conference Reports SB900 Leno Reconsider — 24–12 (pass) · upper
• Conference Reports — 24–13 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB900 Leno Concurrence — 1–26 (fail) · upper
• Conference Reports — 25–13 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 900 Leno Senate Third Reading By ENG — 47–24 (pass) · lower
• SB 900 Steinberg Senate Third Reading By ENG Amend By ENG Set #1 — 50–24 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 900 Leno Conference Report — 54–26 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Leno — primary (person)
• Calderon — principal coauthor (person)
• Carter — principal coauthor (person)
• Corbett — author (person)
• Davis — principal coauthor (person)
• DeSaulnier — author (person)
• Eng — principal coauthor (person)
• Evans — author (person)
• Feuer — principal coauthor (person)
• Hancock — principal coauthor (person)
• John A. Pérez — principal coauthor (person)
• Mitchell — principal coauthor (person)
• Pavley — author (person)
• Skinner — principal coauthor (person)
• Steinberg — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-18 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2011-02-20 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
• 2011-03-10 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2011-04-06 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-04-14 Re-referred to Com. on E.Q. referral-committee
• 2011-04-15 Set for hearing May 2.
• 2011-05-05 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 856.) (May 2). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-09 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-05-10 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2011-05-10 Ordered to second reading.
• 2011-05-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-05-19 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 1038.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-05-19 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2011-06-16 Referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. referral-committee
• 2011-06-29 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 28). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-06-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-07-01 Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Charles Calderon.
• 2012-04-19 Notice of intention to remove from inactive file given by Assembly Member Charles Calderon.
• 2012-04-23 From inactive file.
• 2012-04-23 Ordered to third reading.
• 2012-04-26 Read third time and amended. (Ayes 50. Noes 24. Page 4565.) reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-04-26 Ordered to third reading.
• 2012-04-26 Assembly Rule 69(d) suspended. (Ayes 50. Noes 24. Page 4566.)
• 2012-04-26 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 47. Noes 24. Page 4567.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-04-26 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2012-04-30 Senate refused to concur in Assembly amendments. (Ayes 1. Noes 26. Page 3331.) committee-failure, amendment-failure
• 2012-04-30 Ordered to Conference Committee. referral-committee
• 2012-04-30 Senators Vargas, Evans, and Blakeslee appointed to Conference Committee.
• 2012-04-30 Assembly Members Eng, Feuer, and Wagner appointed to Conference Committee.
• 2012-05-02 Senators Evans, Calderon, and Blakeslee appointed to Conference Committee.
• 2012-05-14 Joint Rule 29.5(a) suspended in the Assembly. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 4808.)
• 2012-05-14 Joint Rule 29.5(a) suspended in the Senate. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 3498.)
• 2012-06-27 From Conference Committee: Be adopted. (Ayes 4: Senators Evans and Calderon, Assembly Members Feuer and Eng. Noes 1: Assembly Member Wagner. Page 4161.) (June 26.)
• 2012-06-27 (Corrected June 28.)
• 2012-06-27 (Corrected June 29.)
• 2012-07-02 Assembly adopted Conference Committee report. (Ayes 54. Noes 26. Page 5550.) committee-passage
• 2012-07-02 Senate adopted Conference Committee report. (Ayes 24. Noes 13. Page 4220.) committee-passage
• 2012-07-02 Motion to reconsider made by Senator Vargas.
• 2012-07-02 Reconsideration granted. (Ayes 24. Noes 12. Page 4221.)
• 2012-07-02 Senate adopted Conference Committee report. (Ayes 25. Noes 13. Page 4221.) committee-passage
• 2012-07-05 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
• 2012-07-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-07-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 87, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a298a544-1095-4478-9074-105e7ad1d938. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).