republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/ab-774.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Civil actions: enforcement of judgments."
description: "(1) Existing law specifies procedures and requirements for a levying officer to serve documents, including a writ of execution issued by a court, on a judgment debtor. If the judgment upon which the writ is issued is for personal debt, the judgment creditor must provide the levying officer with a declaration stating that they have verified the judgment debtor's address and specifying the method of verification. Existing law requires a judgment creditor to file with the court the declaration within 5 business days after delivering it to the levying officer. Existing law also requires a judgment creditor executing a levy on the earnings of an employee to serve the earnings withholding order on both the judgment debtor employee and their employer."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "AB 774"
citation: "California AB 774 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Civilactions", "enforcementofjudgments"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bauer-Kahan"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2025-02-18"
last_action: "2025-10-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4b214afa-957b-4cbb-b219-f8298e5b21a6"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB774"
source_hash: "bd04375e8930a76d454e90a34222134744b90caa48ae0571cc2245e37b360d86"
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 774 (20252026) — Civil actions: enforcement of judgments.

(1) Existing law specifies procedures and requirements for a levying officer to serve documents, including a writ of execution issued by a court, on a judgment debtor. If the judgment upon which the writ is issued is for personal debt, the judgment creditor must provide the levying officer with a declaration stating that they have verified the judgment debtor's address and specifying the method of verification. Existing law requires a judgment creditor to file with the court the declaration within 5 business days after delivering it to the levying officer. Existing law also requires a judgment creditor executing a levy on the earnings of an employee to serve the earnings withholding order on both the judgment debtor employee and their employer.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/18/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB774&version=20250AB77499INT)
2. **03/24/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB774&version=20250AB77498AMD)
3. **06/27/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB774&version=20250AB77497AMD)
4. **10/13/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB774&version=20250AB77495CHP)
5. **AB774** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB774)
6. **09/10/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB774&version=20250AB77496ENR)

## Votes

- Special Consent AB774 Bauer-Kahan — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 774 Bauer-Kahan Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 774 Bauer-Kahan Consent Calendar Second Day — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **13–0** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bauer-Kahan — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-02-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2025-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- **2025-03-24** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** 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`
- **2025-03-25** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-06** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 6). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-07** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-05-12** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1520.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-05-13** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-21** Referred to Coms. on JUD. and APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-27** 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`
- **2025-07-09** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, 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** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2025-09-04** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2522.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-09-04** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2025-09-08** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3031.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-09-15** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2025-10-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-10-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 708, 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/4b214afa-957b-4cbb-b219-f8298e5b21a6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).