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type: "Bill"
title: "Debtor exemptions: homestead exemption."
description: "Existing law provides that a specified portion of equity in a homestead, as defined, is exempt from execution to satisfy a judgment debt and prescribes that the amount of the homestead exemption is either $75,000, $100,000, or $175,000, depending on certain characteristics of the homestead's residents."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 1885"
citation: "California AB 1885 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Debtor exemptions: homestead exemption."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Budget"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-01-07"
last_action: "2020-09-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/55d6d203-b6ad-4c4e-aeb5-c0a71c2b6ed9"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1885"
source_hash: "5c2aef6ecd97f04ddf044cdfb04bd774de0b044aa59743cc8648264849c042ca"
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 1885 (20192020) — Debtor exemptions: homestead exemption.
Existing law provides that a specified portion of equity in a homestead, as defined, is exempt from execution to satisfy a judgment debt and prescribes that the amount of the homestead exemption is either $75,000, $100,000, or $175,000, depending on certain characteristics of the homestead's residents.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **01/07/20 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1885&version=20190AB188599INT)
2. **02/25/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1885&version=20190AB188598AMD)
3. **08/28/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1885&version=20190AB188597AMD)
4. **09/18/20 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1885&version=20190AB188595CHP)
5. **AB1885** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1885)
6. **09/04/20 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1885&version=20190AB188596ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass — **135** (pass) · upper
- AB 1885 Budget Concurrence in Senate Amendments By TING — **5910** (pass) · lower
- AB 1885 BUDGET Assembly Third Reading By TING — **6014** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1885 BUDGET (Ting) By Mitchell — **322** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Committee on Budget — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-01-07** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2020-01-08** From printer. May be heard in committee February 7.
- **2020-01-17** Referred to Com. on BUDGET. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-25** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on BUDGET. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-02-26** Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET. `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-09** Assembly Rule 96 suspended. (Ayes 57. Noes 15. Page 4273.)
- **2020-03-09** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2020-03-09** Ordered to second reading.
- **2020-03-10** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-06-15** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 60. Noes 14. Page 4873.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-06-16** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2020-07-01** Referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `referral-committee`
- **2020-08-28** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-08-29** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 5.) (August 29). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2020-08-30** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-08-31** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 2.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-08-31** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2020-08-31** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 59. Noes 10. Page 5476.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-09-15** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2020-09-18** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2020-09-18** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 94, Statutes of 2020.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/55d6d203-b6ad-4c4e-aeb5-c0a71c2b6ed9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).