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AB-1885 Debtor exemptions: homestead exemption. (2019-2020)



As Amends the Law Today


SECTION 1.

 Section 704.730 of the Code of Civil Procedure is amended to read:

704.730.
 (a) The amount of the homestead exemption is the greater of the following:
(1) The countywide median sale price for a single-family home in the calendar year prior to the calendar year in which the judgment debtor claims the exemption, not to exceed six hundred thousand dollars ($600,000).
(2) Three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000).
(b) The amounts specified in this section shall adjust annually for inflation, beginning on January 1, 2022, based on the change in the annual California Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers,  Consumers for the prior fiscal year,  published by the Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Labor Statistics, for the most recent one-year period ending on December 31 preceding the adjustment, with each adjusted amount rounded to the nearest twenty-five dollars ($25). Relations.