Common interest developments: noncommercial solicitation.
Existing law, the Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act, defines and regulates common interest developments that are managed by homeowners' associations. The act requires an association to adopt rules that ensure access to the common area meeting space, if any exists, during a campaign, at no cost, to all candidates and to all members advocating a point of view. The act also requires the adoption of rules that ensure that if any candidate or member advocating a point of view is provided access to association media, newsletters, or Internet Web sites during a campaign, for purposes that are related to that election, equal access is provided to all candidates and members advocating a point of view.
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California Legislature
20172018
SB 407
California SB 407 (20172018)
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Common interest developments: noncommercial solicitation.
California SB 407 (20172018) — Common interest developments: noncommercial solicitation.
Existing law, the Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act, defines and regulates common interest developments that are managed by homeowners' associations. The act requires an association to adopt rules that ensure access to the common area meeting space, if any exists, during a campaign, at no cost, to all candidates and to all members advocating a point of view. The act also requires the adoption of rules that ensure that if any candidate or member advocating a point of view is provided access to association media, newsletters, or Internet Web sites during a campaign, for purposes that are related to that election, equal access is provided to all candidates and members advocating a point of view.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2017-02-15 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
2017-02-16 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
2017-02-23 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
2017-04-13 Set for hearing May 2.
2017-04-17 May 2 hearing postponed by committee.
2017-04-18 Set for hearing May 9.
2017-05-01 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
2017-05-16 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1021.) (May 9). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
2017-05-17 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
2017-05-17 Published May 17 at 9 p.m.
2017-05-26 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
2017-05-26 Ordered to second reading.
2017-05-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2017-05-30 Published May 26 at 9 p.m.
2017-05-31 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1344.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
2017-06-01 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2017-06-12 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
2017-06-22 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 20). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
2017-06-26 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
2017-06-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2017-07-17 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 2578.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
2017-07-18 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2017-08-22 Ordered to special consent calendar.
2017-08-24 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2232.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
2017-08-30 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
2017-09-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2017-09-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 236, Statutes of 2017.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bd4c6ac8-081b-47ce-b755-17ecd4d979cd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).