republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/sb-407.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Common interest developments: noncommercial solicitation."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "SB 407"
citation: "California SB 407 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Common interest developments: noncommercial solicitation."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wieckowski"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 27
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-02-15"
last_action: "2017-09-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bd4c6ac8-081b-47ce-b755-17ecd4d979cd"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB407"
source_hash: "645f2f422e7490f5c9cf9ffaf97373c1f4219d193a9ced380622cef427b18148"
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 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.

1. **02/15/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB407&version=20170SB40799INT)
2. **05/01/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB407&version=20170SB40798AMD)
3. **05/17/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB407&version=20170SB40797AMD)
4. **05/26/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB407&version=20170SB40796AMD)
5. **06/26/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB407&version=20170SB40795AMD)
6. **09/11/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB407&version=20170SB40793CHP)
7. **SB407** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB407)
8. **08/25/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB407&version=20170SB40794ENR)

## Sponsors

- Wieckowski — primary (person)

## Timeline

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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bd4c6ac8-081b-47ce-b755-17ecd4d979cd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).