---
type: "Bill"
title: "Infrastructure financing."
description: "Existing law permits a governmental agency to solicit proposals and enter into agreements with private entities for the design, construction, or reconstruction by, and may lease to, private entities, for specified types of fee-producing infrastructure projects. Existing law requires certain provisions to be included in the lease agreement between a governmental agency undertaking an infrastructure project and a private entity, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 164"
citation: "California AB 164 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Infrastructure financing."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wieckowski"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2013-01-23"
last_action: "2013-08-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ac0af95f-feff-404b-82f0-3f8d9b907778"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB164"
source_hash: "bb672d22df2dff7b578c79f614c7a95ba661c8153fa447aad5968481c3e0677b"
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 164 (20132014) — Infrastructure financing.

Existing law permits a governmental agency to solicit proposals and enter into agreements with private entities for the design, construction, or reconstruction by, and may lease to, private entities, for specified types of fee-producing infrastructure projects. Existing law requires certain provisions to be included in the lease agreement between a governmental agency undertaking an infrastructure project and a private entity, as specified.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/23/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB164&version=20130AB16499INT)
2. **05/13/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB164&version=20130AB16498AMD)
3. **06/05/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB164&version=20130AB16497AMD)
4. **08/13/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB164&version=20130AB16495CHP)
5. **AB164** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB164)
6. **07/01/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB164&version=20130AB16496ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 164 WIECKOWSKI Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 164 WIECKOWSKI Assembly Third Reading — **73–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Wieckowski — primary (person)
- Gorell — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-01-23** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2013-01-24** From printer. May be heard in committee February 23.
- **2013-01-31** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2013-05-02** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (May 1). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-05-06** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-05-13** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1381.) `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-05-16** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 1450.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-05-16** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2013-05-29** Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2013-06-05** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-06-12** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 12). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-06-13** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-06-24** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1489.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-06-24** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2013-06-27** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2192.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2013-08-01** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:45 p.m.
- **2013-08-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2013-08-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 94, Statutes of 2013.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ac0af95f-feff-404b-82f0-3f8d9b907778`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).