California 2021-2022 Regular Session Status: Enacted 1 D cosponsors

SB 800 — Real estate: licenses.

Last action — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 431, Statutes of 2021.

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    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
  3. ✓
    Passed Senate
  4. ✓
    Passed Assembly
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    To Executive
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    Enacted

This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 19, 2021. Enacted.

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Likely to advance 74% · moderate confidence

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  • Enacted

    Current position in the legislative process.

  • 2 sponsors

    1 primary, 1 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Single-party support

    Sponsorship is currently within one party (1 D).

  • Cleared a recorded vote

    Passed 8 recorded votes so far.

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Summary

Existing law, the Real Estate Law, defines real estate brokers and salespersons and provides for their licensure and regulation, the administration of which is committed to the Real Estate Commissioner. Existing law, as of July 1, 2018, removed the Bureau of Real Estate from the Department of Consumer Affairs and instead made it a department within the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency and renamed the bureau to the Department of Real Estate. This bill would make conforming and nonsubstantive changes. Existing law subjects the powers and duties of the department, under specified provisions of law, to review by the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature, performed as if those provisions were scheduled to be repealed as of January 1, 2022. This bill would extend that date to January 1, 2026. Existing law authorizes a person who has passed the applicable license examination, as provided, to apply for a real estate broker license or real estate salesperson license under the Real Estate Law by submitting an application in writing to the commissioner. Existing law authorizes the commissioner to prescribe the format and content of a license application. This bill would require the commissioner to inquire in every application for licensure under the Real Estate Law if the individual applying for licensure is, or previously was, a member of the Armed Forces of the United States, as defined. The bill would require the commissioner to expedite, and authorize the commissioner to assist, the initial licensure process for an applicant who supplies satisfactory evidence to the department that the applicant has served as an active duty member of the Armed Forces of the United States and was honorably discharged. The bill would also require the commissioner to expedite the licensure process for an applicant who (1) supplies evidence satisfactory to the commissioner that the applicant is married to, or in a domestic partnership or other legal union with, an active duty member of the Armed Forces of the United States who is assigned to a duty station in this state and (2) holds a current license in another state, district, or territory of the United States in the profession or vocation for which the applicant seeks a license from the commissioner. Existing law authorizes the commissioner to suspend, revoke, delay renewal of, or deny the issuance of a license for various acts or failures to act. Those acts include an applicant or licensee having acted or conducted themselves in a manner that would have warranted the denial of their application for a real estate license, or either had a license denied or had a license issued by another agency of this state, another state, or the federal government revoked, surrendered, or suspended for acts that, if done by a real estate licensee, would be grounds for the suspension or revocation of a California real estate license, if the action of denial, revocation, surrender, or suspension by the other agency or entity was taken only after giving the licensee or applicant prescribed due process protections and only upon an express finding of a violation of law by the agency or entity. This bill would add receiving an order of debarment by another agency or entity as a basis for suspension, revocation, delay of renewal, or denial of a license by the commissioner. Existing law requires real estate licensees to comply with continuing education requirements adopted by the commissioner as a prerequisite to the renewal of real estate licenses on and after January 1, 1981. Existing law exempts from those continuing education requirements a real estate licensee who submits proof satisfactory to the commissioner that the licensee has been a real estate licensee in good standing for 30 continuous years in this state and is 70 years of age or older. The bill defines "real estate licensee in good standing" for this purpose to mean one who holds an active license that has not been suspended, revoked, or restricted as a result of disciplinary action. This bill would require additionally for good standing that a licensee has not surrendered a license while under investigation or while subject to a disciplinary action, or received an order of debarment. Existing law, the Real Estate Appraisers' Licensing and Certification Law, creates a Bureau of Real Estate Appraisers within the Department of Consumer Affairs to administer and enforce that law. Existing law subjects the powers and duties of the bureau to review by the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature, performed as if that law were scheduled to be repealed as of January 1, 2022. This bill would extend that date to January 1, 2026. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 10151 of the Business and Professions Code proposed by SB 263 to be operative only if this bill and SB 263 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.

Bill Text

Action History

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 431, Statutes of 2021.

  2. Approved by the Governor.

  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.

  4. Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2613.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

  5. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.

  6. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3013.) Ordered to the Senate.

  7. Ordered to third reading.

  8. Read third time and amended.

  9. Ordered to third reading.

  10. Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, passed, ordered to the Senate.

  11. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2695.) Ordered to the Senate.

  12. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  13. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (August 26).

  14. August 19 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.

  15. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (July 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  16. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. & P.

  17. Referred to Com. on B. & P.

  18. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

  19. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1348.) Ordered to the Assembly.

  20. Ordered to special consent calendar.

  21. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  22. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1204.) (May 20).

  23. Set for hearing May 20.

  24. May 17 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.

  25. Set for hearing May 17.

  26. May 10 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.

  27. Set for hearing May 10.

  28. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  29. May 3 hearing postponed by committee.

  30. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  31. From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0. Page 841.) (April 19).

  32. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D.

  33. Set for hearing April 19.

  34. Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D.

  35. Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)

  36. (Ayes 32. Noes 4.)

  37. Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.

  38. Read first time.

  39. From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.

  40. Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

Sponsors

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1 sponsors · 1 co-sponsors · 120 not signed on

Sponsors (1)

Co-sponsors (1)

  • Roth

Not signed on (120)

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Votes

Unfinished Business SB800 Archuleta et al. By Roth Concurrence

Passed 37 Yea · 0 Nay · 3 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 21002
Democratic 12001
Republican 4000
Total 37003
% of votes cast 93%0%0%8%
How each member voted (40)
Member Party Vote
Borgeas — Yea
Melendez — Yea
Wilk — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Hertzberg — Yea
Nielsen — Yea
Glazer — Yea
Atkins — Yea
Hueso — Yea
Min — Yea
Pan — Yea
Newman — Yea
Leyva — Yea
Kamlager — Yea
Bates — Yea
Roth — Yea
Rubio — Yea
Portantino — Yea
Skinner — Yea
Wieckowski — Yea
Dodd — Yea
Gonzalez — Not Voting
Eggman — Not Voting
Allen, Benjamin Democratic Yea
Archuleta, Bob Democratic Yea
Becker, Josh Democratic Yea
Caballero, Anna M. Democratic Yea
Cortese, Dave Democratic Yea
Durazo, Maria Elena Democratic Yea
Hurtado, Melissa Democratic Yea
Laird, John Democratic Yea
Limón, Monique Democratic Yea
McGuire, Mike Democratic Yea
Stern, Henry I. Democratic Not Voting
Umberg, Thomas J. Democratic Yea
Wiener, Scott D. Democratic Yea
Dahle, Megan Republican Yea
Grove, Shannon Republican Yea
Jones, Brian W. Republican Yea
Ochoa Bogh, Rosilicie Republican Yea

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SB 800 Archuleta Senate Third Reading By Low

Passed 79 Yea · 0 Nay · 1 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Democratic 27000
Unaffiliated 43001
Republican 9000
Total 79001
% of votes cast 99%0%0%1%
How each member voted (80)
Member Party Vote
Bloom — Yea
Mullin — Yea
Holden — Yea
Jones-Sawyer — Yea
Wood — Yea
Smith — Yea
Cunningham — Yea
Cooper — Yea
Voepel — Yea
Maienschein — Yea
Rodriguez — Yea
Kiley — Yea
Nazarian — Yea
Ting — Yea
O'Donnell — Yea
Waldron — Yea
Medina — Yea
McCarty — Yea
Friedman — Yea
Bigelow — Yea
Chiu — Yea
Rendon — Yea
Villapudua — Yea
Salas — Yea
Quirk — Yea
Low — Yea
Levine — Yea
Daly — Yea
Gray — Yea
Burke — Yea
Mathis — Yea
Santiago — Yea
Mayes — Yea
Frazier — Yea
Chau — Yea
Cooley — Not Voting
Cristina Garcia — Yea
Eduardo Garcia — Yea
Jim Patterson — Yea
Lorena Gonzalez — Yea
Luz Rivas — Yea
Mark Stone — Yea
Vince Fong — Yea
Wendy Carrillo — Yea
Aguiar-Curry, Cecilia M. Democratic Yea
Arambula, Joaquin Democratic Yea
Bauer-Kahan, Rebecca Democratic Yea
Bennett, Steve Democratic Yea
Berman, Marc Democratic Yea
Boerner, Tasha Democratic Yea
Bonta, Mia Democratic Yea
Bryan, Isaac G. Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Cervantes, Sabrina Democratic Yea
Gabriel, Jesse Democratic Yea
Gipson, Mike A. Democratic Yea
Grayson, Timothy S. Democratic Yea
Irwin, Jacqui Democratic Yea
Kalra, Ash Democratic Yea
Lee, Alex Democratic Yea
Muratsuchi, Al Democratic Yea
Nguyen, Stephanie Democratic Yea
Petrie-Norris, Cottie Democratic Yea
Quirk-Silva, Sharon Democratic Yea
Ramos, James C. Democratic Yea
Reyes, Eloise Gómez Democratic Yea
Rivas, Robert Democratic Yea
Rubio, Blanca E. Democratic Yea
Ward, Christopher M. Democratic Yea
Weber Pierson, M.D., Akilah Democratic Yea
Wicks, Buffy Democratic Yea
Chen, Phillip Republican Yea
Choi, Steven S. Republican Yea
Dahle, Megan Republican Yea
Davies, Laurie Republican Yea
Flora, Heath Republican Yea
Gallagher, James Republican Yea
Lackey, Tom Republican Yea
Seyarto, Kelly Republican Yea
Valladares, Suzette Martinez Republican Yea

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Do pass.

Passed 16 Yea · 0 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 8000
Democratic 6000
Republican 2000
Total 16000
% of votes cast 100%0%0%0%
How each member voted (16)
Member Party Vote
Levine — Yea
Quirk — Yea
Bigelow — Yea
Chau — Yea
Eduardo Garcia — Yea
Lorena Gonzalez — Yea
Vince Fong — Yea
Wendy Carrillo — Yea
Bryan, Isaac G. Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Gabriel, Jesse Democratic Yea
Kalra, Ash Democratic Yea
Rivas, Robert Democratic Yea
Weber Pierson, M.D., Akilah Democratic Yea
Dahle, Megan Republican Yea
Davies, Laurie Republican Yea

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Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar

Passed 19 Yea · 0 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 11000
Republican 3000
Democratic 5000
Total 19000
% of votes cast 100%0%0%0%
How each member voted (19)
Member Party Vote
Bloom — Yea
Chiu — Yea
Mullin — Yea
Holden — Yea
Salas — Yea
Ting — Yea
Low — Yea
Medina — Yea
McCarty — Yea
Cunningham — Yea
Vince Fong — Yea
Berman, Marc Democratic Yea
Gipson, Mike A. Democratic Yea
Grayson, Timothy S. Democratic Yea
Irwin, Jacqui Democratic Yea
Weber Pierson, M.D., Akilah Democratic Yea
Chen, Phillip Republican Yea
Dahle, Megan Republican Yea
Flora, Heath Republican Yea

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Special Consent SB800

Passed 39 Yea · 0 Nay · 1 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Democratic 13000
Unaffiliated 22001
Republican 4000
Total 39001
% of votes cast 98%0%0%3%
How each member voted (40)
Member Party Vote
Glazer — Yea
Roth — Yea
Eggman — Yea
Bates — Yea
Gonzalez — Yea
Portantino — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Min — Yea
Hertzberg — Yea
Borgeas — Yea
Skinner — Yea
Wieckowski — Yea
Leyva — Yea
Nielsen — Yea
Wilk — Yea
Atkins — Yea
Newman — Yea
Hueso — Yea
Kamlager — Yea
Pan — Yea
Rubio — Yea
Dodd — Yea
Melendez — Not Voting
Allen, Benjamin Democratic Yea
Archuleta, Bob Democratic Yea
Becker, Josh Democratic Yea
Caballero, Anna M. Democratic Yea
Cortese, Dave Democratic Yea
Durazo, Maria Elena Democratic Yea
Hurtado, Melissa Democratic Yea
Laird, John Democratic Yea
Limón, Monique Democratic Yea
McGuire, Mike Democratic Yea
Stern, Henry I. Democratic Yea
Umberg, Thomas J. Democratic Yea
Wiener, Scott D. Democratic Yea
Dahle, Megan Republican Yea
Grove, Shannon Republican Yea
Jones, Brian W. Republican Yea
Ochoa Bogh, Rosilicie Republican Yea

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Do pass

Passed 7 Yea · 0 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 5000
Republican 1000
Democratic 1000
Total 7000
% of votes cast 100%0%0%0%
How each member voted (7)
Member Party Vote
Wieckowski — Yea
Kamlager — Yea
Portantino — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Bates — Yea
Laird, John Democratic Yea
Jones, Brian W. Republican Yea

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Placed on suspense file

Passed 7 Yea · 0 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 5000
Republican 1000
Democratic 1000
Total 7000
% of votes cast 100%0%0%0%
How each member voted (7)
Member Party Vote
Bates — Yea
Kamlager — Yea
Portantino — Yea
Wieckowski — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Laird, John Democratic Yea
Jones, Brian W. Republican Yea

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Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations]

Passed 13 Yea · 0 Nay · 1 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 8001
Democratic 3000
Republican 2000
Total 13001
% of votes cast 93%0%0%7%
How each member voted (14)
Member Party Vote
Dodd — Yea
Bates — Yea
Pan — Yea
Eggman — Yea
Leyva — Yea
Min — Yea
Roth — Yea
Newman — Yea
Melendez — Not Voting
Archuleta, Bob Democratic Yea
Becker, Josh Democratic Yea
Hurtado, Melissa Democratic Yea
Jones, Brian W. Republican Yea
Ochoa Bogh, Rosilicie Republican Yea

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Frequently asked questions

What does SB 800 do?
Existing law, the Real Estate Law, defines real estate brokers and salespersons and provides for their licensure and regulation, the administration of which is committed to the Real Estate Commissioner. Existing law, as of July 1, 2018, removed the Bureau of Real Estate from the Department of Consumer Affairs and instead made it a department within the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency and renamed the bureau to the Department of Real Estate. This bill would make conforming and nonsubstantive changes. Existing law subjects the powers and duties of the department, under specified provisions of law, to review by the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature, performed as if those provisions were scheduled to be repealed as of January 1, 2022. This bill would extend that date to January 1, 2026. Existing law authorizes a person who has passed the applicable license examination, as provided, to apply for a real estate broker license or real estate salesperson license under the Real Estate Law by submitting an application in writing to the commissioner. Existing law authorizes the commissioner to prescribe the format and content of a license application. This bill would require the commissioner to inquire in every application for licensure under the Real Estate Law if the individual applying for licensure is, or previously was, a member of the Armed Forces of the United States, as defined. The bill would require the commissioner to expedite, and authorize the commissioner to assist, the initial licensure process for an applicant who supplies satisfactory evidence to the department that the applicant has served as an active duty member of the Armed Forces of the United States and was honorably discharged. The bill would also require the commissioner to expedite the licensure process for an applicant who (1) supplies evidence satisfactory to the commissioner that the applicant is married to, or in a domestic partnership or other legal union with, an active duty member of the Armed Forces of the United States who is assigned to a duty station in this state and (2) holds a current license in another state, district, or territory of the United States in the profession or vocation for which the applicant seeks a license from the commissioner. Existing law authorizes the commissioner to suspend, revoke, delay renewal of, or deny the issuance of a license for various acts or failures to act. Those acts include an applicant or licensee having acted or conducted themselves in a manner that would have warranted the denial of their application for a real estate license, or either had a license denied or had a license issued by another agency of this state, another state, or the federal government revoked, surrendered, or suspended for acts that, if done by a real estate licensee, would be grounds for the suspension or revocation of a California real estate license, if the action of denial, revocation, surrender, or suspension by the other agency or entity was taken only after giving the licensee or applicant prescribed due process protections and only upon an express finding of a violation of law by the agency or entity. This bill would add receiving an order of debarment by another agency or entity as a basis for suspension, revocation, delay of renewal, or denial of a license by the commissioner. Existing law requires real estate licensees to comply with continuing education requirements adopted by the commissioner as a prerequisite to the renewal of real estate licenses on and after January 1, 1981. Existing law exempts from those continuing education requirements a real estate licensee who submits proof satisfactory to the commissioner that the licensee has been a real estate licensee in good standing for 30 continuous years in this state and is 70 years of age or older. The bill defines "real estate licensee in good standing" for this purpose to mean one who holds an active license that has not been suspended, revoked, or restricted as a result of disciplinary action. This bill would require additionally for good standing that a licensee has not surrendered a license while under investigation or while subject to a disciplinary action, or received an order of debarment. Existing law, the Real Estate Appraisers' Licensing and Certification Law, creates a Bureau of Real Estate Appraisers within the Department of Consumer Affairs to administer and enforce that law. Existing law subjects the powers and duties of the bureau to review by the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature, performed as if that law were scheduled to be repealed as of January 1, 2022. This bill would extend that date to January 1, 2026. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 10151 of the Business and Professions Code proposed by SB 263 to be operative only if this bill and SB 263 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.
Who sponsors SB 800?
SB 800 is sponsored by Archuleta, Bob (Democratic) and Roth.
What is the current status of SB 800?
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 19, 2021. Enacted.
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