republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/ab-771.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Common interest developments: requests for documents: fees."
description: "The Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act requires an owner of a separate interest in a common interest development to provide specified documents to a prospective purchaser of that interest. Existing law requires a homeowners' association to provide these documents to the owner of the separate interest within 10 days of the mailing or delivery of the request, and limits the amount of fees charged for the provision of the documents to the association's actual costs to procure, prepare, and reproduce the requested documents."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 771"
citation: "California AB 771 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Common interest developments: requests for documents: fees."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Butler"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 25
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2011-02-17"
last_action: "2011-09-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9b4e7275-6a6c-481d-ad84-3d00aa08584a"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB771"
source_hash: "c149efce8e315cc660a5b35e58e7fa7092fa82d63f0f28b7becfc1bb00ebba87"
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 771 (20112012) — Common interest developments: requests for documents: fees.

The Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act requires an owner of a separate interest in a common interest development to provide specified documents to a prospective purchaser of that interest. Existing law requires a homeowners' association to provide these documents to the owner of the separate interest within 10 days of the mailing or delivery of the request, and limits the amount of fees charged for the provision of the documents to the association's actual costs to procure, prepare, and reproduce the requested documents.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/17/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB771&version=20110AB77199INT)
2. **04/15/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB771&version=20110AB77198AMD)
3. **04/25/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB771&version=20110AB77197AMD)
4. **05/10/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB771&version=20110AB77196AMD)
5. **05/23/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB771&version=20110AB77195AMD)
6. **06/20/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB771&version=20110AB77194AMD)
7. **07/12/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB771&version=20110AB77193AMD)
8. **09/01/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB771&version=20110AB77191CHP)
9. **AB771** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB771)
10. **08/16/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB771&version=20110AB77192ENR)

## Votes

- AB 771 BUTLER Assembly Third Reading — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 771 BUTLER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Judiciary. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Judiciary. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. — **5–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Butler — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-02-17** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2011-02-18** From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
- **2011-03-07** Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-15** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-04-25** Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-25** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-04-28** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 27). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-09** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (May 3). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-10** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-05-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-05-23** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1498.) `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-05-26** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1552.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-05-26** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2011-06-02** Referred to Coms. on T. & H. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-15** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2011-06-20** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on T. & H. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-06-28** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-07-11** From committee: Do pass as amended. To consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 5). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-07-12** Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-07-14** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1865.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-07-14** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 12 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2011-08-15** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2385.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2011-08-22** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 10:30 a.m.
- **2011-09-01** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2011-09-01** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 206, Statutes of 2011.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9b4e7275-6a6c-481d-ad84-3d00aa08584a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).