republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/ab-1730.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mortgage loan modification."
description: "Existing law, applicable to residential mortgages, prohibits a person who negotiates, arranges, or otherwise offers to perform a mortgage loan modification or other form of mortgage loan forbearance for a fee or other compensation from, among other things, demanding or receiving any compensation until every service that the person contracted to perform or represented that he or she would perform is accomplished. Existing law makes a violation of these provisions by a natural person a misdemeanor punishable by a specified fine or imprisonment, or both."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 1730"
citation: "California AB 1730 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Mortgage loan modification."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wagner"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 25
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2014-02-14"
last_action: "2014-09-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/34c0c4c9-9789-4079-959c-191ebba3f136"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1730"
source_hash: "32752bc1bbfb43134f7741c76c01d5cf00e7bc2149c8e431269f58a445147633"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 1730 (20132014) — Mortgage loan modification.

Existing law, applicable to residential mortgages, prohibits a person who negotiates, arranges, or otherwise offers to perform a mortgage loan modification or other form of mortgage loan forbearance for a fee or other compensation from, among other things, demanding or receiving any compensation until every service that the person contracted to perform or represented that he or she would perform is accomplished. Existing law makes a violation of these provisions by a natural person a misdemeanor punishable by a specified fine or imprisonment, or both.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/14/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1730&version=20130AB173099INT)
2. **04/23/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1730&version=20130AB173098AMD)
3. **06/05/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1730&version=20130AB173097AMD)
4. **08/19/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1730&version=20130AB173096AMD)
5. **09/19/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1730&version=20130AB173094CHP)
6. **AB1730** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1730)
7. **08/26/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1730&version=20130AB173095ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended. — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1730 WAGNER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **6–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Public Safety Recommend Consent. — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1730 WAGNER Consent Calendar Second Day — **73–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1730 Wagner By Berryhill — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Banking and Finance. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Wagner — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-02-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2014-02-18** From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
- **2014-02-27** Referred to Coms. on JUD. and B. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2014-04-22** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on B. & F. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on B. & F. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-04-23** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & F. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-04-24** Re-referred to Com. on B. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2014-04-29** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-05-14** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-05-15** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-05-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5111.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-05-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2014-06-05** Referred to Coms. on JUD. and PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-05** 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, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-06-18** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-06-25** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-08-04** In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2014-08-18** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2014-08-19** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-08-21** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 4701.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-08-21** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 23 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2014-08-22** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6347.)
- **2014-08-22** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 6351.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2014-09-05** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2014-09-19** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-09-19** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 457, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/34c0c4c9-9789-4079-959c-191ebba3f136`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).