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Bill	Civil actions: enforcement of judgments.	(1) Existing law specifies procedures and requirements for a levying officer to serve documents, including a writ of execution issued by a court, on a judgment debtor. If the judgment upon which the writ is issued is for personal debt, the judgment creditor must provide the levying officer with a declaration stating that they have verified the judgment debtor's address and specifying the method of verification. Existing law requires a judgment creditor to file with the court the declaration within 5 business days after delivering it to the levying officer. Existing law also requires a judgment creditor executing a levy on the earnings of an employee to serve the earnings withholding order on both the judgment debtor employee and their employer.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 774	California AB 774 (20252026)	bill	Civilactions enforcementofjudgments	enacted	Bauer-Kahan	6	22	7	2025-02-18	2025-10-13	openstates	ocd-bill/4b214afa-957b-4cbb-b219-f8298e5b21a6	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB774	bd04375e8930a76d454e90a34222134744b90caa48ae0571cc2245e37b360d86	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 774 (20252026) — Civil actions: enforcement of judgments.

(1) Existing law specifies procedures and requirements for a levying officer to serve documents, including a writ of execution issued by a court, on a judgment debtor. If the judgment upon which the writ is issued is for personal debt, the judgment creditor must provide the levying officer with a declaration stating that they have verified the judgment debtor's address and specifying the method of verification. Existing law requires a judgment creditor to file with the court the declaration within 5 business days after delivering it to the levying officer. Existing law also requires a judgment creditor executing a levy on the earnings of an employee to serve the earnings withholding order on both the judgment debtor employee and their employer.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/24/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/27/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/13/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB774 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/10/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Special Consent AB774 Bauer-Kahan — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 774 Bauer-Kahan Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 774 Bauer-Kahan Consent Calendar Second Day — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bauer-Kahan — 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.
• 2025-03-24 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2025-03-24 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-03-25 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2025-05-06 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 6). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-07 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1520.) 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 Coms. on JUD. and APPR. referral-committee
• 2025-06-27 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-07-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-08-18 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2025-08-29 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-08-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-02 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2025-09-04 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2522.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-04 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-09-08 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3031.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-15 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2025-10-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 708, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4b214afa-957b-4cbb-b219-f8298e5b21a6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).