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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Senate Bill

SB 436: Unlawful detainer: notice to terminate tenancy.

Passed one chamber Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 436 is a senate bill introduced in the California Senate on February 18, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Unlawful detainer: notice to terminate tenancy. Primary sponsor: Aisha Wahab (D). It lists 1 additional sponsor. Most recent recorded action (June 24, 2025): June 24 set for first hearing. Failed passage in committee. (Ayes 6. Noes 4.) Reconsideration granted.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Legislative Counsel’s Digest (official, as of the latest version). Written by nonpartisan legislative staff; reproduced verbatim.

Existing law prescribes summary procedures for actions to obtain possession of real property. Existing law authorizes a landlord to serve a notice of termination of tenancy on a tenant who is in default in the payment of rent. The notice must permit the tenant at least 3 days, excluding weekends and judicial holidays, to pay the amount that is in default and due. If the tenant does not pay the amount stated in the 3-day notice to pay rent or quit after its expiration, the landlord may file a complaint for unlawful detainer against the tenant to obtain possession of the premises.

This bill would extend the notice period described above, to terminate a tenancy on a tenant who is in default in the payment of rent, to permit the tenant at least 14 days, excluding weekends and judicial holidays, to pay the amount that is in default and due. The bill would also make conforming changes.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 2

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Aisha WahabPrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate10
Mark GonzálezCo-sponsorDemocraticAssembly54

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. June 24 set for first hearing. Failed passage in committee. (Ayes 6. Noes 4.) Reconsideration granted.
  2. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
  3. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
  4. Referred to Com. on JUD.
  5. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
  6. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 26. Noes 10. Page 1386.) Ordered to the Assembly.
  7. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
  8. Ordered to second reading.
  9. Withdrawn from committee.
  10. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
  11. From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 2. Page 940.) (April 29).
  12. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

Sources

  1. California Legislative Information — pubinfo database export
  2. Official bill page