republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/ab-905.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Time-shares: public report: real property inspection."
description: "Existing law, the Vacation Ownership and Time-share Act of 2004, requires a developer, defined as a person who creates a time-share plan or is in the business of selling time-share interests, to prepare, for issuance by the Real Estate Commissioner, a public report that discloses certain facts concerning the developer and time-share plan and to provide a copy of the public report in writing to each purchaser of a time-share interest in a time-share plan at the time of purchase. Existing law requires a developer who offers a purchaser the opportunity to subscribe or become a member of an exchange program to provide the purchaser with specified disclosures in writing. Existing law makes a violation of the public report disclosure requirement a public offense."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 905"
citation: "California AB 905 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Time-shares: public report: real property inspection."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beth Gaines"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2015-02-26"
last_action: "2015-07-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/100efa09-e44f-45ec-baf5-005975f8743a"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB905"
source_hash: "344170fdaaa0eeefe3b681b63439e1c8787575f0c9394f681fe4e5cd6c2a8a31"
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 905 (20152016) — Time-shares: public report: real property inspection.

Existing law, the Vacation Ownership and Time-share Act of 2004, requires a developer, defined as a person who creates a time-share plan or is in the business of selling time-share interests, to prepare, for issuance by the Real Estate Commissioner, a public report that discloses certain facts concerning the developer and time-share plan and to provide a copy of the public report in writing to each purchaser of a time-share interest in a time-share plan at the time of purchase. Existing law requires a developer who offers a purchaser the opportunity to subscribe or become a member of an exchange program to provide the purchaser with specified disclosures in writing. Existing law makes a violation of the public report disclosure requirement a public offense.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/26/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB905&version=20150AB90599INT)
2. **07/14/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB905&version=20150AB90597CHP)
3. **AB905** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB905)
4. **06/29/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB905&version=20150AB90598ENR)

## Votes

- Consent Calendar 2nd AB905 Beth Gaines — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 905 GAINES Consent Calendar Second Day — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Beth Gaines — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-02-26** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2015-02-27** From printer. May be heard in committee March 29.
- **2015-03-16** Referred to Com. on B. & P. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-14** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-04-22** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 22). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-04-23** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-04-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1225.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-30** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2015-05-14** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2015-06-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-06-22** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2015-06-23** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-06-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1620.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-06-25** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2015-07-02** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1 p.m.
- **2015-07-14** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2015-07-14** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 88, Statutes of 2015.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/100efa09-e44f-45ec-baf5-005975f8743a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).