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type: "Bill"
title: "Common interest developments: board members: election by acclamation."
description: "Existing law, the Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act, governs the formation and operation of common interest developments. The act requires the election of directors to serve on the board of directors of the association to be held by secret ballot, and requires an association to adopt rules that specify the procedures for nomination of candidates consistent with the governing documents. The act also authorizes those rules to provide for the nomination of candidates from the floor of membership meetings or nomination by any other manner."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "SB 754"
citation: "California SB 754 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Common interest developments: board members: election by acclamation."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Moorlach"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 30
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-02-22"
last_action: "2019-10-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2b225fac-c58a-424a-9fb6-d4531082170c"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB754"
source_hash: "233d94edcb3fd76e6c65a35dc92e3958f364d6e4964a096de81331333e122624"
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 SB 754 (20192020) — Common interest developments: board members: election by acclamation.
Existing law, the Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act, governs the formation and operation of common interest developments. The act requires the election of directors to serve on the board of directors of the association to be held by secret ballot, and requires an association to adopt rules that specify the procedures for nomination of candidates consistent with the governing documents. The act also authorizes those rules to provide for the nomination of candidates from the floor of membership meetings or nomination by any other manner.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/22/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB754&version=20190SB75499INT)
2. **03/27/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB754&version=20190SB75498AMD)
3. **05/07/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB754&version=20190SB75497AMD)
4. **05/14/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB754&version=20190SB75496AMD)
5. **06/24/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB754&version=20190SB75495AMD)
6. **07/09/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB754&version=20190SB75494AMD)
7. **09/05/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB754&version=20190SB75493AMD)
8. **09/09/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB754&version=20190SB75492AMD)
9. **10/12/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB754&version=20190SB75490CHP)
10. **SB754** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB754)
11. **09/17/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB754&version=20190SB75491ENR)
## Votes
- 3rd Reading — **380** (pass) · upper
- SB 754 Moorlach Senate Third Reading By Petrie-Norris — **771** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business — **360** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **90** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **100** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **80** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Moorlach — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-02-22** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
- **2019-02-25** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 27.
- **2019-02-25** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2019-03-14** Referred to Coms. on HOUSING and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-05** Set for hearing April 22.
- **2019-04-23** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 775.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-25** Set for hearing April 30.
- **2019-05-06** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 907.) (April 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2019-05-07** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-14** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-14** Ordered to second reading.
- **2019-05-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-20** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1160.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-21** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2019-06-03** Referred to Com. on H. & C.D. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-24** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-07-08** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 3). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2019-07-09** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-07-10** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-09-05** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-05** Ordered to third reading.
- **2019-09-09** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-09** Ordered to third reading.
- **2019-09-13** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 1. Page 3549.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-13** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2019-09-14** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 3600.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-09-20** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 10 a.m.
- **2019-10-12** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-10-12** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 858, Statutes of 2019.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2b225fac-c58a-424a-9fb6-d4531082170c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).