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type: "Bill"
title: "Committee on Judiciary: judiciary omnibus."
description: "(1) Existing law, the Real Estate Law, provides for the licensure and regulation of real estate brokers and salespersons. Existing law requires specified language be included in agreements that provide for the amount of compensation to be paid to a real estate licensee for the purchase of specified residential property or a mobilehome. That language states that the amount or rate of real estate commissions is not fixed by law but rather is set by each broker individually and may be negotiable between the seller and the broker."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "AB 1521"
citation: "California AB 1521 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CommitteeonJudiciary", "judiciaryomnibus"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Judiciary"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 31
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2025-03-18"
last_action: "2025-10-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/04861543-eecb-4734-ac4a-8e51d83cba5c"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1521"
source_hash: "dd0cd42e2fb5cdbc8ace72b983c233d9f8fde14b608af8033d455db1514cb396"
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 1521 (20252026) — Committee on Judiciary: judiciary omnibus.
(1) Existing law, the Real Estate Law, provides for the licensure and regulation of real estate brokers and salespersons. Existing law requires specified language be included in agreements that provide for the amount of compensation to be paid to a real estate licensee for the purchase of specified residential property or a mobilehome. That language states that the amount or rate of real estate commissions is not fixed by law but rather is set by each broker individually and may be negotiable between the seller and the broker.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **03/18/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1521&version=20250AB152199INT)
2. **04/21/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1521&version=20250AB152198AMD)
3. **05/23/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1521&version=20250AB152197AMD)
4. **06/19/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1521&version=20250AB152196AMD)
5. **07/03/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1521&version=20250AB152195AMD)
6. **07/15/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1521&version=20250AB152194AMD)
7. **09/02/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1521&version=20250AB152193AMD)
8. **10/01/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1521&version=20250AB152191CHP)
9. **AB1521** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1521)
10. **09/12/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1521&version=20250AB152192ENR)
## Votes
- AB 1521 Judiciary Assembly Third Reading By KALRA — **630** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **90** (pass) · lower
- AB 1521 Judiciary Concurrence in Senate Amendments By KALRA — **650** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Banking and Financial Institutions] — **110** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB1521 JUD. (Kalra) By Umberg — **350** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **110** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Committee on Judiciary — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-03-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2025-03-19** From printer. May be heard in committee April 18.
- **2025-03-24** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-21** 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`
- **2025-04-22** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-22** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-14** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-23** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 51. Noes 16. Page 1644.)
- **2025-05-23** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 23). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2025-05-23** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-06-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 63. Noes 0. Page 1925.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-06-03** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2025-06-11** Referred to Coms. on JUD. and B. & F.I. `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-19** 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`
- **2025-07-02** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on B. & F.I. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 1). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-03** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.I. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-07** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2025-07-07** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2025-07-15** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-08-18** In committee: Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2025-08-29** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-08-29** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-09-02** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-09-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-09-08** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 2620.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-09-08** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2025-09-10** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 65. Noes 0. Page 3184.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-09-22** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2025-10-01** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-10-01** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 200, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/04861543-eecb-4734-ac4a-8e51d83cba5c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).