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Bill	Keep Californians Housed Act.	Existing law requires a tenant or subtenant in possession of a rental housing unit under a month-to-month lease at the time that property is sold in foreclosure to be provided 90 days' written notice to quit before the tenant or subtenant may be removed from the property. Existing law also provides tenants or subtenants holding possession of a rental housing unit under a fixed-term residential lease entered into before transfer of title at the foreclosure sale the right to possession until the end of the lease term, except in specified circumstances. Existing law repeals these provisions as of December 31, 2019.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	SB 18	California SB 18 (20192020)	bill	Keep Californians Housed Act.	enacted	Skinner	9	28	10	2018-12-03	2019-07-30	openstates	ocd-bill/6bf713d7-6b99-4714-b52e-48ba352beeb5	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB18	fd2530885e5c27ccb20cb070b7e8bcabb33acc10f23cf658e6f9596a66ff2af1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 18 (20192020) — Keep Californians Housed Act.

Existing law requires a tenant or subtenant in possession of a rental housing unit under a month-to-month lease at the time that property is sold in foreclosure to be provided 90 days' written notice to quit before the tenant or subtenant may be removed from the property. Existing law also provides tenants or subtenants holding possession of a rental housing unit under a fixed-term residential lease entered into before transfer of title at the foreclosure sale the right to possession until the end of the lease term, except in specified circumstances. Existing law repeals these provisions as of December 31, 2019.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. 12/03/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/04/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/25/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/11/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 04/30/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 05/21/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 07/30/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. SB18 (committee substitute) — source
9. 07/08/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• [04-24-2019] set for [First] hearing: Reconsideration of favorable vote granted — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading SB18 Skinner et al. — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 4–2 (pass) · upper
• SB 18 Skinner Consent Calendar Second Day — 70–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Skinner — primary (person)
• Beall — coauthor (person)
• Bonta — coauthor (person)
• Carrillo — coauthor (person)
• Ting — principal coauthor (person)
• Wicks — coauthor (person)
• Wiener — coauthor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2018-12-03 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2018-12-04 From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 3.
• 2019-01-24 Referred to Coms. on HOUSING and JUD. referral-committee
• 2019-03-04 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-03-15 Set for hearing April 2.
• 2019-03-25 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-03 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 551.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-04 Set for hearing April 23.
• 2019-04-11 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-23 April 23 set for first hearing. Reconsideration of favorable vote granted.
• 2019-04-29 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2. Page 797.) (April 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2019-04-30 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-05-03 Set for hearing May 13.
• 2019-05-13 May 13 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2019-05-14 Set for hearing May 16.
• 2019-05-20 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 4. Noes 2. Page 1087.) (May 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2019-05-21 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-28 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1325.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-28 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2019-06-06 Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2019-06-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-06-25 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 25). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-06-26 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-07-05 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 2548.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-07-05 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2019-07-19 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2019-07-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-07-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 134, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6bf713d7-6b99-4714-b52e-48ba352beeb5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).