---
type: "Bill"
title: "Land use: fees."
description: "(1) Existing law requires fees charged by a local agency for specified purposes to not exceed the estimated reasonable cost of providing the service for which the fee is charged, unless a question regarding the amount of the fee charged in excess of this cost is submitted to, and approved by, 23 of the electors. The Planning and Zoning law requires a city or county to administratively approve applications to install solar energy systems, as defined, through the issuance of a building permit or similar nondiscretionary permit."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 1801"
citation: "California AB 1801 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Land use: fees."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Campos"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 23
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2012-02-21"
last_action: "2012-09-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b62893ea-cce4-4bd0-9866-ebd34410521e"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1801"
source_hash: "1b851e4b36025967a32e4da6d4a0297a64ef02a08db6b1baf90fc266086e0c54"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 1801 (20112012) — Land use: fees.

(1) Existing law requires fees charged by a local agency for specified purposes to not exceed the estimated reasonable cost of providing the service for which the fee is charged, unless a question regarding the amount of the fee charged in excess of this cost is submitted to, and approved by, 23 of the electors. The Planning and Zoning law requires a city or county to administratively approve applications to install solar energy systems, as defined, through the issuance of a building permit or similar nondiscretionary permit.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/21/12 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1801&version=20110AB180199INT)
2. **04/09/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1801&version=20110AB180198AMD)
3. **04/23/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1801&version=20110AB180197AMD)
4. **06/18/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1801&version=20110AB180196AMD)
5. **08/06/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1801&version=20110AB180195AMD)
6. **09/25/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1801&version=20110AB180193CHP)
7. **AB1801** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1801)
8. **08/16/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1801&version=20110AB180194ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended. — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB1801 Campos By Leno — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1801 CAMPOS Assembly Third Reading — **74–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1801 CAMPOS Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **8–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Campos — primary (person)
- Alejo — principal coauthor (person)
- Williams — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2012-02-21** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2012-02-22** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- **2012-03-26** Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2012-04-09** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-04-09** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2012-04-10** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2012-04-23** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-04-24** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2012-05-03** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (May 2). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-05-07** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-05-10** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 4776.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-05-10** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2012-05-24** Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2012-06-15** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 13). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-06-18** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-08-06** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-08-07** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-08-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4436.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-08-09** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 11 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2012-08-13** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5903.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2012-08-20** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
- **2012-09-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2012-09-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 538, Statutes of 2012.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b62893ea-cce4-4bd0-9866-ebd34410521e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).