republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/sb-479.md

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Bill	Termination of tenancy: no-fault just cause: natural person.	Existing law, after a tenant has continuously and lawfully occupied a residential real property for 12 months, prohibits the owner of the residential real property from terminating the tenancy without just cause and requires that just cause to be stated in the written notice to terminate tenancy. Existing law distinguishes between at-fault just cause and no-fault just cause and defines no-fault just cause to mean intent to occupy the residential real property by the owner or the owner's spouse, domestic partner, children, grandchildren, parents, or grandparents, withdrawal of the residential real property from the rental market, the owner complying with specified government orders that necessitate vacating the real property, and intent to demolish or to substantially remodel the residential real property. Existing law defines "owner" for these purposes to mean either a natural person who has at least a 25% recorded ownership interest in the property or a natural person who has any recorded ownership interest in the property if 100% of the recorded ownership is divided among owners who are related to each other as sibling, spouse, domestic partner, child, parent, grandparent, or grandchild. Existing law defines "natural person" for these purposes to include a natural person who is a settlor or beneficiary of a family trust or, if the property is owned by a limited liability company or partnership, a natural person with a 25% ownership interest in the property, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 479	California SB 479 (20232024)	bill	Termination of tenancy natural person no-fault just cause	enacted	Durazo	5	30	6	2023-02-14	2024-03-25	openstates	ocd-bill/2c46f4b0-6a4c-4612-a73f-8070d37ae219	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB479	c971b56a4a9e384d0538d91b89385243411cb22fb2dbfa6cce6c601a75ef607a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 479 (20232024) — Termination of tenancy: no-fault just cause: natural person.

Existing law, after a tenant has continuously and lawfully occupied a residential real property for 12 months, prohibits the owner of the residential real property from terminating the tenancy without just cause and requires that just cause to be stated in the written notice to terminate tenancy. Existing law distinguishes between at-fault just cause and no-fault just cause and defines no-fault just cause to mean intent to occupy the residential real property by the owner or the owner's spouse, domestic partner, children, grandchildren, parents, or grandparents, withdrawal of the residential real property from the rental market, the owner complying with specified government orders that necessitate vacating the real property, and intent to demolish or to substantially remodel the residential real property. Existing law defines "owner" for these purposes to mean either a natural person who has at least a 25% recorded ownership interest in the property or a natural person who has any recorded ownership interest in the property if 100% of the recorded ownership is divided among owners who are related to each other as sibling, spouse, domestic partner, child, parent, grandparent, or grandchild. Existing law defines "natural person" for these purposes to include a natural person who is a settlor or beneficiary of a family trust or, if the property is owned by a limited liability company or partnership, a natural person with a 25% ownership interest in the property, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/14/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 02/29/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/25/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. SB479 (committee substitute) — source
5. 03/15/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Unfinished Business SB479 Durazo Urgency Clause Concurrence — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 479 Durazo Third Reading Urgency By McKinnor — 66–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• That the Assembly amendments be concurred in — 10–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Durazo — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-14 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2023-02-15 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17.
• 2023-02-22 Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. referral-committee
• 2023-04-11 Set for hearing April 19.
• 2023-04-20 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 832.) (April 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-24 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-01 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 960.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-01 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2023-05-11 Referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2023-06-28 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 28). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-06-29 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-07-03 From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Reyes.
• 2023-07-03 Ordered to third reading.
• 2023-09-13 Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Alvarez.
• 2024-02-26 Notice of intention to remove from inactive file given by Assembly Member McKinnor.
• 2024-02-27 From inactive file.
• 2024-02-27 Ordered to third reading.
• 2024-02-29 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-02-29 Ordered to third reading.
• 2024-03-07 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 66. Noes 0. Page 4295.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-03-07 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2024-03-08 Set for hearing March 11 in JUD. pending receipt.
• 2024-03-11 Re-referred to Com. on RLS pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). referral-committee
• 2024-03-11 From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on JUD. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 3274.) Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-03-12 From committee: That the Assembly amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 3275.) committee-passage
• 2024-03-14 Urgency clause adopted.
• 2024-03-14 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 3296.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2024-03-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-03-25 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 8, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2c46f4b0-6a4c-4612-a73f-8070d37ae219. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).