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type: "Bill"
title: "Rental property: disclosures: flood hazard areas: areas of potential flooding."
description: "Existing law requires a person who is acting as an agent for a transferor of real property that is located within either a special flood hazard or an area of potential flooding, determined as provided, or the transferor if he or she is acting without an agent, to disclose to any prospective transferee the fact that the property located in a special flood hazard or an area of potential flooding if certain criteria are met."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 646"
citation: "California AB 646 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Rental property: disclosures: flood hazard areas: areas of potential flooding."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kalra"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 28
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2017-02-14"
last_action: "2017-10-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6e696c42-02a7-4b05-9505-1ea140f44f27"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB646"
source_hash: "ec09d7d7225f7c635a882e8a1cc4169d504004469b31b572dc0ef0dac50354cb"
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 646 (20172018) — Rental property: disclosures: flood hazard areas: areas of potential flooding.
Existing law requires a person who is acting as an agent for a transferor of real property that is located within either a special flood hazard or an area of potential flooding, determined as provided, or the transferor if he or she is acting without an agent, to disclose to any prospective transferee the fact that the property located in a special flood hazard or an area of potential flooding if certain criteria are met.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/14/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB646&version=20170AB64699INT)
2. **03/23/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB646&version=20170AB64698AMD)
3. **04/25/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB646&version=20170AB64697AMD)
4. **05/31/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB646&version=20170AB64696AMD)
5. **07/03/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB646&version=20170AB64695AMD)
6. **09/01/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB646&version=20170AB64694AMD)
7. **10/05/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB646&version=20170AB64692CHP)
8. **AB646** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB646)
9. **09/13/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB646&version=20170AB64693ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass as amended — **70** (pass) · upper
- AB 646 KALRA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **760** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **70** (pass) · upper
- AB 646 KALRA Assembly Third Reading — **657** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **70** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB646 Kalra et al. By Beall — **400** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **101** (pass) · lower
- Be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **100** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Kalra — primary (person)
- Beall — coauthor (person)
- Chu — coauthor (person)
- Low — coauthor (person)
- Wieckowski — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-02-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2017-02-15** From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
- **2017-03-23** Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-23** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-03-27** Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-25** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-04-26** Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-27** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. `referral-committee`
- **2017-05-01** From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on JUD. Re-referred. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (May 1). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-05-09** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 1.) (May 9). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-05-10** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-05-31** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1886.) `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2017-06-01** Assembly Rule 69(d) suspended. (Ayes 50. Noes 24. Page 2080.)
- **2017-06-01** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 7. Page 2081.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-06-05** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2017-06-14** Referred to Coms. on JUD. and APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2017-07-03** 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-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction`
- **2017-07-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-08-21** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2017-09-01** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (September 1). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2017-09-01** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
- **2017-09-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-09-07** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2579.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-09-07** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 9 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2017-09-11** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 3131.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2017-09-19** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2017-10-05** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-10-05** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 502, Statutes of 2017.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6e696c42-02a7-4b05-9505-1ea140f44f27`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).