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type: "Bill"
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title: "Counties: recording fees."
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description: "Existing law requires the recorder of each county, upon payment of proper fees and taxes, to accept for recordation any instrument, paper, or notice that is authorized or required by law to be recorded, as specified. Existing law establishes a fee for recording documents with the county recorder at $10 for the first page and $3 for each additional page and authorizes a county recorder to assess additional specified fees, including a fee of $1 for each document filed in order to defray the cost of converting the county recorder's document storage system to micrographics."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20192020"
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identifier: "AB 212"
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citation: "California AB 212 (20192020)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Counties: recording fees."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Bonta"]
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version_count: 6
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action_count: 19
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vote_count: 4
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first_action: "2019-01-15"
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last_action: "2019-07-01"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9ef7dbb8-f037-4788-97c4-8c8ebcaf80ff"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB212"
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source_hash: "b64f3fa98fdd201542660ad8e36fcb0a58766bc08ccff8449863add1502f66ef"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 212 (20192020) — Counties: recording fees.
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Existing law requires the recorder of each county, upon payment of proper fees and taxes, to accept for recordation any instrument, paper, or notice that is authorized or required by law to be recorded, as specified. Existing law establishes a fee for recording documents with the county recorder at $10 for the first page and $3 for each additional page and authorizes a county recorder to assess additional specified fees, including a fee of $1 for each document filed in order to defray the cost of converting the county recorder's document storage system to micrographics.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **01/15/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB212&version=20190AB21299INT)
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2. **03/18/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB212&version=20190AB21298AMD)
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3. **04/01/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB212&version=20190AB21297AMD)
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4. **07/01/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB212&version=20190AB21295CHP)
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5. **AB212** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB212)
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6. **06/21/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB212&version=20190AB21296ENR)
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## Votes
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- Special Consent AB212 — **40–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass as amended. — **8–0** (pass) · lower
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- AB 212 Bonta Assembly Third Reading — **73–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Bonta — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2019-01-15** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2019-01-16** From printer. May be heard in committee February 15.
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- **2019-02-04** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
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- **2019-03-18** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
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- **2019-03-19** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
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- **2019-03-28** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (March 27). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
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- **2019-04-01** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2019-04-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2019-04-08** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 1074.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
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- **2019-04-08** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2019-04-24** Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
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- **2019-06-05** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 5). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2019-06-06** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2019-06-17** Ordered to special consent calendar.
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- **2019-06-20** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1678.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
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- **2019-06-20** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
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- **2019-06-25** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
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- **2019-07-01** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2019-07-01** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 41, Statutes of 2019.
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9ef7dbb8-f037-4788-97c4-8c8ebcaf80ff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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