What the law asks of you
SB 255 (Seyarto), Chapter 351, Statutes of 2025, adds §27297.7 to the Government Code. It extends a recorded-document notification requirement to every California county except Los Angeles, which runs its own program under §27297.6.
Deadline
Jan 1, 2027
Program and board resolution in place.
Mailing window
30 days
From recording to the notice being mailed.
Recipient
The signer
At the tax-bill address established before recording.
Scope
Statewide
Except counties already running a §27297.6 program.
Statute to Software
Each subsection, covered
| §27297.7 | Requirement | How SentraDeed handles it |
|---|---|---|
| (a) | County program and board resolution by January 1, 2027 | Onboarding and go-live support; board action stays with the county. |
| (b)(1) | Mail notice to executing parties within 30 days, to the pre-recording tax-bill address | Matching engine, owner history, deadline tracking and daily batches. |
| (b)(2) | Recorder may require the APN on page 1 and rely on it | APN normalization and exception handling for missing or invalid APNs. |
| (b)(3) | Optional electronic notification | Public alert portal in English and Spanish. |
| (c) | Exempt when a government entity is the grantee | Configurable government name patterns, with uncertain cases sent to staff. |
| (d) | No liability for failed notice; returned mail need not be kept | Returned-mail tracking is optional. |
| (e) | Processing and mailing contracts go to the lowest responsible bidder | Hosted service with low operating cost; printing stays in-house. |
| (f) | Optional recording fee capped at reasonable cost | Cost-per-notice report. |
Covered documents
Deed
Quitclaim deed
Mortgage
Deed of trust
Each county maps its own document types (grant deed, trust transfer deed, interspousal transfer deed and so on) to these four categories. A type the system hasn't seen goes to staff to classify once.
Not covered
- Documents where a federal, state, county or city government, or a political subdivision, is the grantee (subsection c).
- Recognized document types outside the four categories, such as reconveyances and notices of default.
- Counties already running a notification program under §27297.6 (subsection g).
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