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Bill	County recorder: recordation of documents.	Existing law requires the county recorder, upon payment of proper fees and taxes, to record any instrument, paper, or notice that is authorized or required to be recorded, provided that the instrument, paper, or notice meets certain standards. Existing law also requires all documents authorized by law to be recorded in the official records of a county to contain specified information.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 1974	California AB 1974 (20152016)	bill	County recorder: recordation of documents.	enacted	Gallagher	7	23	6	2016-02-16	2016-09-21	openstates	ocd-bill/420aec35-6386-4362-8902-b83422027fb1	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1974	396c32858451ddaa94588ac7b471059debe8ac0e40349deb391eb30d8b498bbe	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1974 (20152016) — County recorder: recordation of documents.

Existing law requires the county recorder, upon payment of proper fees and taxes, to record any instrument, paper, or notice that is authorized or required to be recorded, provided that the instrument, paper, or notice meets certain standards. Existing law also requires all documents authorized by law to be recorded in the official records of a county to contain specified information.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/08/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/21/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/19/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/21/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1974 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/31/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 19–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1974 GALLAGHER Consent Calendar Second Day — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1974 Gallagher By Vidak — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1974 GALLAGHER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Gallagher — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2016-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
• 2016-02-25 Referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2016-04-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-04-27 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (April 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-04-28 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-05 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 4685.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-05-05 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-05-12 Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2016-06-01 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2016-06-08 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-20 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 15). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-06-21 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-01 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2016-08-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-19 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5307.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-25 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6437.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-09-08 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2016-09-21 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-21 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 406, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/420aec35-6386-4362-8902-b83422027fb1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).