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Bill	Financing statements: mortgages.	Existing law, the Uniform Commercial Code-Secured Transactions (UCC) , provides that a financing statement is sufficient only if it provides, among other things, the name of the debtor and that, if the debtor is an individual to whom the Department of Motor Vehicles has issued a driver's license that has not expired or an identification card that has not expired, a financing statement sufficiently provides the name of the debtor only if it provides the name of the individual indicated on that driver's license or identification card, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 771	California AB 771 (20252026)	bill	Financingstatements mortgages	enacted	Macedo	4	15	4	2025-02-18	2025-07-14	openstates	ocd-bill/279b5eba-cfb3-4890-8acf-9ca1e3109698	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB771	4b6c133712deef65273564d9334b5c38134d205eef3e76127e4c53a32c326b45	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 771 (20252026) — Financing statements: mortgages.

Existing law, the Uniform Commercial Code-Secured Transactions (UCC) , provides that a financing statement is sufficient only if it provides, among other things, the name of the debtor and that, if the debtor is an individual to whom the Department of Motor Vehicles has issued a driver's license that has not expired or an identification card that has not expired, a financing statement sufficiently provides the name of the debtor only if it provides the name of the individual indicated on that driver's license or identification card, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 07/14/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. AB771 (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/24/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 771 Macedo Assembly Third Reading — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar 2nd — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 12–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 9–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Macedo — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-18 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2025-03-17 Referred to Com. on B.&F. referral-committee
• 2025-05-06 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (May 5). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1515.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-05-13 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-05-21 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2025-06-17 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 17). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-06-18 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-06-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1706.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-06-24 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2025-07-02 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2025-07-14 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-07-14 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 43, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/279b5eba-cfb3-4890-8acf-9ca1e3109698. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).