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type: "Bill"
title: "Single-family residential property: disclosures."
description: "Existing law requires that specified disclosures be made upon any transfer by sale, exchange, real property sales contract, lease with an option to purchase, any other option to purchase, or ground lease coupled with improvements, of any single-family residential property. Existing law, after July 1, 2022, requires that every contract for the sale of single-family residential real property contain a notice stating that any appraisal of the property is required to be unbiased, objective, and not influenced by improper or illegal considerations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 968"
citation: "California AB 968 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Single-family residential property", "disclosures"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Grayson"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 22
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-02-14"
last_action: "2023-07-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3c91ca4e-cbf9-4376-827f-de74228778da"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB968"
source_hash: "4f3ffa112a7b79a7a4f9cad37d8c24c71acefbd1793ecc2716fd4587099fcfee"
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 968 (20232024) — Single-family residential property: disclosures.
Existing law requires that specified disclosures be made upon any transfer by sale, exchange, real property sales contract, lease with an option to purchase, any other option to purchase, or ground lease coupled with improvements, of any single-family residential property. Existing law, after July 1, 2022, requires that every contract for the sale of single-family residential real property contain a notice stating that any appraisal of the property is required to be unbiased, objective, and not influenced by improper or illegal considerations.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/14/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB968&version=20230AB96899INT)
2. **03/02/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB968&version=20230AB96898AMD)
3. **03/20/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB968&version=20230AB96897AMD)
4. **03/29/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB968&version=20230AB96896AMD)
5. **06/01/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB968&version=20230AB96895AMD)
6. **06/22/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB968&version=20230AB96894AMD)
7. **07/21/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB968&version=20230AB96892CHP)
8. **AB968** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB968)
9. **07/05/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB968&version=20230AB96893ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass as amended, and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **110** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar AB968 Grayson et al. — **390** (pass) · upper
- AB 968 Grayson Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **660** (pass) · lower
- AB 968 Grayson Assembly Third Reading — **730** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **90** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Grayson — primary (person)
- Lee — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-02-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2023-02-15** From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
- **2023-03-02** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-02** 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`
- **2023-03-06** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-20** 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`
- **2023-03-21** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-28** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (March 28). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2023-03-29** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-03-30** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-04-20** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 1267.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-04-20** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-03** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-01** 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`
- **2023-06-21** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 20). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2023-06-22** Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-06-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1825.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-06-29** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 1 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2023-07-03** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 66. Noes 0. Page 2537.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-07-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2023-07-21** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2023-07-21** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 95, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3c91ca4e-cbf9-4376-827f-de74228778da`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).