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Bill	Residential property: possession by declaration.	Existing law allows a plaintiff, upon motion, to have immediate possession of the premises of a manufactured home, mobilehome, or real property by a writ of possession issued by a court and directed to the sheriff of the county or marshal, for execution, where it appears to the satisfaction of the court, after a hearing on the motion, from the verified complaint and from any affidavits filed or oral testimony given by or on behalf of the parties, that the defendant resides out of state, has departed from the state, cannot, after due diligence, be found within the state, or has concealed himself or herself to avoid the service of summons.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 1513	California AB 1513 (20132014)	bill	Residential property: possession by declaration.	enacted	Fox	11	35	8	2014-01-15	2014-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/a4d607f4-4fea-477e-a67c-bf1e9537af3a	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1513	465062f1d4858fa459445b57e90a2479a1b124ae511095e4f9536904ac7192c0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1513 (20132014) — Residential property: possession by declaration.

Existing law allows a plaintiff, upon motion, to have immediate possession of the premises of a manufactured home, mobilehome, or real property by a writ of possession issued by a court and directed to the sheriff of the county or marshal, for execution, where it appears to the satisfaction of the court, after a hearing on the motion, from the verified complaint and from any affidavits filed or oral testimony given by or on behalf of the parties, that the defendant resides out of state, has departed from the state, cannot, after due diligence, be found within the state, or has concealed himself or herself to avoid the service of summons.

Version chain

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

1. 01/15/14 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/17/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/08/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/24/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/06/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/01/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/06/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/21/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/27/14 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. AB1513 (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/04/14 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1513 FOX Assembly Third Reading — 68–3 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1513 Fox By Correa — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 6–1 (pass) · upper
• AB 1513 FOX Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 75–1 (pass) · lower
• Be referred to Committee on Judiciary. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 9–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Fox — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-01-15 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2014-01-16 From printer. May be heard in committee February 15.
• 2014-01-23 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2014-03-11 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2014-03-17 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-03-18 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2014-03-20 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. referral-committee
• 2014-04-07 From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on JUD. Re-referred. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 7). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2014-04-08 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-04-09 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2014-04-21 Measure version as amended on April 8 corrected. amendment-passage
• 2014-04-22 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2014-04-24 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-04-28 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2014-05-05 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (April 29). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-05-06 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-05-07 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2014-05-14 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 14). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2014-05-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-05-19 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 3. Page 5008.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-05-19 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2014-05-28 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2014-06-30 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (June 24). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-07-01 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-08-05 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 4). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-06 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-21 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-08-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4902.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-08-27 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 29 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2014-08-28 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 55. Noes 24. Page 6646.)
• 2014-08-28 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 1. Page 6653.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2014-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2014-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2014-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 666, Statutes of 2014.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a4d607f4-4fea-477e-a67c-bf1e9537af3a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).