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 03/10/26 - Amended Senate
 01/26/26 - Introduced

 SB-911 Transfer of real property: fire hazard severity zones: compliance documentation.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 06/01/2026 09:00 PM

SB911:v97#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 June 01, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 March 10, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Senate Bill

No. 911

Introduced by Senator Becker

January 26, 2026

 An act to amend Section 1102.19 of the Civil Code, and to amend Sections 408 and 480.4 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, relating to fire safety. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 911, as amended, Becker.
 Transfer of real property: fire hazard severity zones: compliance documentation.

Existing

(1) Existing law requires a seller of a real property that is located in a high or very high fire hazard severity zone to provide to the buyer documentation stating that the property is in compliance with specified fire safety requirements or local vegetation management ordinances. If the seller of a real property as described above has not obtained that documentation of compliance, existing law requires the seller and the buyer to enter into a written agreement pursuant to which the buyer agrees to obtain
 documentation of compliance with those specified fire safety requirements or local vegetation management ordinances. In a local jurisdiction that has not enacted an ordinance requiring an owner or buyer to obtain documentation of compliance, and if a state or local agency, or other government entity, or other qualified nonprofit entity, provides an inspection with documentation for the jurisdiction in which the property is located, existing law requires the buyer to obtain documentation of compliance within one year of the date of the close of escrow.

Existing law requires each county assessor and recorder to make available, without charge and upon request, a form entitled “Preliminary Change of Ownership Report,” which transferees of real property are required complete and authorized to file with the recorder concurrent with the recordation of any document effecting a change in
 ownership.

This bill would additionally require the seller to notify the local fire department having jurisdiction over the property, or the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection if the property is within a state responsibility area, as provided, of the written agreement and of the buyer’s obligation to obtain documentation of compliance.
 the buyer to disclose whether they have an obligation to obtain documentation of compliance within one year of the date of the close of escrow pursuant to that agreement on the preliminary change of ownership report. The bill would require the county assessor to make available to the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and to local fire agencies the property address of any property, and name of the transferee, for which the transferee indicated on the preliminary change of ownership report that the property is located in a high or very high fire hazard severity zone and that the transferee has an obligation to obtain documentation of compliance within one year of the date of the close of escrow pursuant to that written agreement. The bill would also require that fire department, or the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, as applicable, to conduct a compliance inspection at the property if it has not received documentation of compliance from a qualified entity
 or otherwise certified compliance within one year of the date of the close of escrow. The bill would authorize the local fire department to prioritize compliance inspections and reinspections based on certain factors. By increasing the duties of local entities, this bill would impose a
 state-mandated local program.

This bill would provide that a local fire department is authorized to recover the costs of compliance inspections and reinspections, as specified. The bill would also provide that the above-described provisions do not modify the immunities granted to a local fire department under any provision of law, as specified. The bill would state that these 2 provisions do not constitute a change in, but are declaratory of, existing law.

(2) Existing property t