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type: "Bill"
title: "Real estate transfer fees: prohibition."
description: "Existing law allows various fees to be included in the price of a residential real estate transfer. Existing law defines a \"transfer fee\" with respect to real property as a fee payment requirement imposed in any covenant, restriction, or condition contained in any deed, contract, security instrument, or other document affecting the transfer or sale of real property that requires a fee be paid upon transfer of the real property, with specified exceptions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 3041"
citation: "California AB 3041 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Real estate transfer fees: prohibition."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cunningham"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2018-02-16"
last_action: "2018-09-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/42505e82-e2e1-4bb2-a594-8ba58d0363e3"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB3041"
source_hash: "5c104f621cd12f7bcbc4d2fa86702ac9b9e1a8d12664408d0e06f06749f1b6d5"
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 3041 (20172018) — Real estate transfer fees: prohibition.
Existing law allows various fees to be included in the price of a residential real estate transfer. Existing law defines a "transfer fee" with respect to real property as a fee payment requirement imposed in any covenant, restriction, or condition contained in any deed, contract, security instrument, or other document affecting the transfer or sale of real property that requires a fee be paid upon transfer of the real property, with specified exceptions.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/16/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB3041&version=20170AB304199INT)
2. **04/24/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB3041&version=20170AB304198AMD)
3. **09/07/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB3041&version=20170AB304196CHP)
4. **AB3041** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB3041)
5. **08/15/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB3041&version=20170AB304197ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass. — **100** (pass) · lower
- AB 3041 CUNNINGHAM Assembly Third Reading — **720** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar AB3041 — **370** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **70** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Cunningham — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2018-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
- **2018-03-15** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-24** 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`
- **2018-04-25** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2018-05-01** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (May 1). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-05-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-05-03** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 5002.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-05-03** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2018-05-17** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-11** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2018-07-03** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 3). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-07-05** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-08-13** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 5277.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-08-14** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2018-08-20** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2018-09-07** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2018-09-07** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 306, Statutes of 2018.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/42505e82-e2e1-4bb2-a594-8ba58d0363e3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).