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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Real estate: digitally altered images: disclosure."
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description: "Existing law, the Real Estate Law, provides for the licensure and regulation of real estate brokers and salespersons by the Real Estate Commissioner, the chief officer of the Department of Real Estate within the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency. Existing law provides various duties and obligations owed to a prospective purchaser of real property. A willful violation of the Real Estate Law is a crime."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20252026"
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identifier: "AB 723"
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citation: "California AB 723 (20252026)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Realestate", "digitallyalteredimages", "disclosure"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Pellerin"]
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version_count: 7
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action_count: 26
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vote_count: 9
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first_action: "2025-02-14"
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last_action: "2025-10-10"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e2127fc1-92e6-48a6-8405-546506bcd51a"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB723"
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source_hash: "8530afd5fb69d1e5a1f02bc7b43976765984c4c75e83e645ca06a6abb2420671"
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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 723 (20252026) — Real estate: digitally altered images: disclosure.
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Existing law, the Real Estate Law, provides for the licensure and regulation of real estate brokers and salespersons by the Real Estate Commissioner, the chief officer of the Department of Real Estate within the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency. Existing law provides various duties and obligations owed to a prospective purchaser of real property. A willful violation of the Real Estate Law is a crime.
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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. **02/14/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB723&version=20250AB72399INT)
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2. **04/03/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB723&version=20250AB72398AMD)
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3. **07/02/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB723&version=20250AB72397AMD)
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4. **09/05/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB723&version=20250AB72396AMD)
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5. **10/10/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB723&version=20250AB72394CHP)
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6. **AB723** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB723)
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7. **09/12/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB723&version=20250AB72395ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **11–2** (pass) · upper
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- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass. — **13–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass — **5–2** (pass) · upper
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- AB 723 Pellerin Assembly Third Reading — **66–2** (pass) · lower
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- 3rd Reading AB723 Pellerin By Wahab — **29–10** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **14–0** (pass) · lower
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- AB 723 Pellerin Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **64–2** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **8–3** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Pellerin — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-02-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2025-02-15** From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
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- **2025-03-03** Referred to Com. on P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-04-02** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 1). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2025-04-03** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-04-07** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-04-30** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-05-23** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (May 23). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-06-03** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 66. Noes 2. Page 1978.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-06-04** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2025-06-18** Referred to Coms. on B. P. & E.D. and JUD. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-07-02** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. P. & E.D. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2025-07-07** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 8. Noes 3.) (July 7). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2025-07-16** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 2.) (July 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2025-08-18** In committee: Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-08-29** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 29). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-08-29** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-09-05** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-09-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-09-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 10. Page 2674.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-09-09** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
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- **2025-09-10** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 64. Noes 2. Page 3226.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-09-22** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
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- **2025-10-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2025-10-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 497, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`
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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/e2127fc1-92e6-48a6-8405-546506bcd51a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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