republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/ab-704.md

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Bill	Escrow services: authorization to transact business.	Existing law authorizes an underwritten title company to engage in the escrow business and to act as an escrow agent if the company satisfies specified requirements, including maintenance of specified records, and the deposit of a specified sum of money with the commissioner. Existing law specifies the conditions under which the commissioner may release or return those deposits to the company.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 704	California AB 704 (20152016)	bill	Escrow services: authorization to transact business.	enacted	Cooley	7	27	9	2015-02-25	2015-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/d000a8af-485b-486f-a7bf-b9ca4f793492	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB704	8cd69a853ec0ad39388cb4a7f6416b8a332f617741c91cd36315b3ba01f8ae1c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 704 (20152016) — Escrow services: authorization to transact business.

Existing law authorizes an underwritten title company to engage in the escrow business and to act as an escrow agent if the company satisfies specified requirements, including maintenance of specified records, and the deposit of a specified sum of money with the commissioner. Existing law specifies the conditions under which the commissioner may release or return those deposits to the company.

Version chain

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

1. 02/25/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/06/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/15/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/06/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/30/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB704 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/04/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB704 Cooley By Gaines — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 704 COOLEY Assembly Third Reading — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 704 COOLEY Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Banking and Financial Institutions] — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Cooley — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-25 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2015-02-26 From printer. May be heard in committee March 28.
• 2015-03-12 Referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2015-04-06 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on INS. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-07 Re-referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2015-04-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-05-06 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 6). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-05-07 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-05-14 From Consent Calendar.
• 2015-05-14 Ordered to third reading.
• 2015-05-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1548.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-05-22 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-06-04 Referred to Coms. on INS. and B. & F.I. referral-committee
• 2015-06-15 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on B. & F.I. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.I. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-07-06 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F.I. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-07-15 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-08-17 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2015-08-27 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-08-31 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2346.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-01 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 3 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2015-09-02 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 2795.)
• 2015-09-02 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 2805.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-09-14 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2015-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 370, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d000a8af-485b-486f-a7bf-b9ca4f793492. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).