republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20092010-special-session-2/ab-7.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Residential mortgage loans: foreclosure."
description: "Existing law requires that, upon a breach of the obligation of a mortgage or transfer of an interest in property, the trustee, mortgagee, or beneficiary record a notice of default in the office of the county recorder where the mortgaged or trust property is situated and mail the notice of default to the mortgagor or trustor. Existing law provides that, after not less than 3 months after the filing of the notice of default, the parties described above may give notice of sale, stating the time and place of the sale, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010 Special Session 2"
identifier: "AB 7"
citation: "California AB 7 (20092010 Special Session 2)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Residential mortgage loans: foreclosure."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lieu"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2009-02-11"
last_action: "2009-02-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1a824024-9999-4e29-b5a9-f392e0fc3880"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920102AB7"
source_hash: "921dfa403b4d9dbc58e86da0580c84dc3f293c08cfe9816cd1179d13f9078679"
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 7 (20092010 Special Session 2) — Residential mortgage loans: foreclosure.

Existing law requires that, upon a breach of the obligation of a mortgage or transfer of an interest in property, the trustee, mortgagee, or beneficiary record a notice of default in the office of the county recorder where the mortgaged or trust property is situated and mail the notice of default to the mortgagor or trustor. Existing law provides that, after not less than 3 months after the filing of the notice of default, the parties described above may give notice of sale, stating the time and place of the sale, as specified.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/11/09 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920102AB7&version=20092AB799INT)
2. **02/14/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920102AB7&version=20092AB798AMD)
3. **02/20/09 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920102AB7&version=20092AB796CHP)
4. **AB7** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920102AB7)
5. **02/19/09 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920102AB7&version=20092AB797ENR)

## Votes

- W/O REF. TO FILE AB7 Lieu — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB7 LIEU Assembly Third Reading Second Extraordinary Session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Supp 1 AB7 Lieu By Corbett — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Lieu — primary (person)
- Block — coauthor (person)
- Brownley — coauthor (person)
- Carter — principal coauthor (person)
- Corbett — principal coauthor (person)
- Coto — coauthor (person)
- De Leon — coauthor (person)
- DeSaulnier — coauthor (person)
- Feuer — coauthor (person)
- Galgiani — coauthor (person)
- Hall — coauthor (person)
- Hayashi — coauthor (person)
- Huffman — coauthor (person)
- Portantino — coauthor (person)
- Price — principal coauthor (person)
- Ruskin — coauthor (person)
- Saldana — coauthor (person)
- Skinner — coauthor (person)
- Swanson — coauthor (person)
- Torlakson — coauthor (person)
- Torres — coauthor (person)
- V. Manuel Perez — coauthor (person)
- Wiggins — coauthor (person)
- Yamada — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-02-11** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2009-02-12** From printer.
- **2009-02-14** Art. IV, Sec. 8(b) of the Constitution suspended. (Ayes 67. Noes 1. Page 43.)
- **2009-02-14** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-02-14** Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. (Page 46.). `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2009-02-14** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 48. Noes 27. Page 47.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-02-14** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2009-02-14** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2009-02-14** Withdrawn from committee. Ordered placed on second reading file.
- **2009-02-14** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-02-15** Unanimous consent granted to take up without reference to file.
- **2009-02-15** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 23. Noes 15. Page 40.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-02-15** Motion to reconsider made by Senator Florez.
- **2009-02-15** Reconsideration granted. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 40.)
- **2009-02-19** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 23. Noes 15. Page 45.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-02-19** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2009-02-19** Enrolled and to the Governor at 11 a.m.
- **2009-02-20** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2009-02-20** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 5, Statutes of 2009-10 Second Extraordinary Session.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1a824024-9999-4e29-b5a9-f392e0fc3880`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).