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                                <ns0:ActionText>INTRODUCED</ns0:ActionText>
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                <ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Assembly Member Garcia</ns0:AuthorText>
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                <ns0:Title> An act to add Section 2924.4 to the Civil Code, relating to real property. </ns0:Title>
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                        <ns0:Subject>Mortgages: principal residence.</ns0:Subject>
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                        <html:p>Existing law generally regulates mortgages and mortgage servicers, including, among other things, prohibiting the acceleration of a loan secured by a mortgage upon specified transfers of residential real property.</html:p>
                        <html:p>This bill would authorize a borrower who has reached retirement age to transfer the interest rate and remaining loan term secured by a mortgage on residential real property to a mortgage secured by a new principal residence, as specified.</html:p>
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                <ns0:Preamble>The people of the State of California do enact as follows:</ns0:Preamble>
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                                Section 2924.4 is added to the
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                                                                Notwithstanding any other law, a borrower who has reached retirement age may transfer the interest rate and remaining loan term of a loan secured by a mortgage or deed of trust on residential real property that is the principal residence of the borrower to a loan secured by a mortgage or deed of trust on a residential real property that is the replacement principal residence of the borrower.
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                                                                This section applies to any loan secured by a mortgage or deed of trust that is open on January 1, 2027, and to any new loan opened on or after January 1, 2027.
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