California · chaptered amendments
What the Legislature changed, and when it starts.
Every bill that amends the Davis-Stirling Act, read from the chaptered text and compared with the text this site publishes, subdivision by subdivision.
Two things make a signed bill hard to act on. The first is that it is invisible where you would look for it: the Legislative Counsel rewrites a section in the code only once the amendment becomes operative, so a bill chaptered in August does not appear in the code until January. The second is that its title rarely says what it does. AB 1892 is titled Common interest developments: associations and carries the only two amendments to the election sections enacted in 2026.
So the bills here are found by the sections they name rather than by words in their subject, and each one is shown as a difference against the text in force — deletions struck, insertions underlined, renumbering separated from substance. Where an amendment is signed but not yet in force, that is stated with the date it starts, and the section pages carry the same difference under the text it will replace.
The bills
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AB 2035in force from 1 January 2027
Chapter 916, Statutes of 2026 · chaptered 30 September 2026
Amends § 4275
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AB 739in force from 1 January 2027
Chapter 506, Statutes of 2026 · chaptered 27 September 2026
Amends § 5200
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AB 1892in force from 1 January 2027
Chapter 169, Statutes of 2026 · chaptered 31 August 2026
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AB 1170in force
Chapter 67, Statutes of 2025 · chaptered 31 December 2025
No page of its own: every section it amended was also amended by AB 2159, AB 2460 in the same window, so the difference between publications is not this act's alone.
Amends § 5115
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SB 410in force
Chapter 516, Statutes of 2025 · chaptered 31 December 2025
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AB 2159in force
Chapter 383, Statutes of 2024 · chaptered 22 September 2024
Permitted internet-based electronic secret ballots in California HOA elections, on an opt-out basis, and wrote five technical requirements for the voting system into § 5110(c)(4)(B). Left votes on regular and special assessments on paper.
Amends § 5105 · § 5110 · § 5115 · § 5120 · § 5125 · § 5200 · § 5260
This index is being extended backwards to 2013, when the Act was recodified into its present numbering. Fourteen bills amended the Act in the 2025–2026 session alone.