CA AB1430

Increases county recorder fees for recording and indexing documents from $10 to $15 for the first page and from $3 to $4 for each additional page, with fees capped at the reasonable costs of providing these services

Dedicates all recording fees exclusively to the county recorder's office operations, eliminating the prior requirement that $1 of each additional page fee go to the county general fund

Raises the portion of fees dedicated to modernizing document creation, retention, and retrieval systems from $1 to $3 for each additional page recorded

Removes the January 1, 2026 sunset date on the $1 per document fee that counties may charge for converting to micrographics, archive programs, and digital preservation systems, making this fee authority permanent

Updates terminology from "archival microfilm" to "archival mediums" to reflect modern document storage technologies