---
type: "Bill"
title: "Conversion of existing overhead electric and communication facilities to underground locations: cable television corporations and cable operators."
description: "Existing law authorizes the Department of Transportation and any person maintaining any utility facility, as defined, to enter into a contract providing for or apportioning the obligations and costs to be borne by each party as to specified removals or relocations of utility facilities."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 1145"
citation: "California AB 1145 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Conversion of existing overhead electric and communication facilities to underground locations: cable television corporations and cable operators."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Quirk"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 29
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-02-17"
last_action: "2017-10-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0d06a8f4-964c-4d4b-8bf0-9cbef5f8da5c"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1145"
source_hash: "a13995eae0717f8449a2bb6046ef4df7feb7932aa9af0e77f4f7ad1064705891"
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 1145 (20172018) — Conversion of existing overhead electric and communication facilities to underground locations: cable television corporations and cable operators.

Existing law authorizes the Department of Transportation and any person maintaining any utility facility, as defined, to enter into a contract providing for or apportioning the obligations and costs to be borne by each party as to specified removals or relocations of utility facilities.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/17/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1145&version=20170AB114599INT)
2. **04/17/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1145&version=20170AB114598AMD)
3. **05/01/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1145&version=20170AB114597AMD)
4. **06/13/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1145&version=20170AB114596AMD)
5. **06/28/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1145&version=20170AB114595AMD)
6. **07/05/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1145&version=20170AB114594AMD)
7. **07/17/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1145&version=20170AB114593AMD)
8. **10/14/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1145&version=20170AB114591CHP)
9. **AB1145** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1145)
10. **09/07/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1145&version=20170AB114592ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Special Consent Calendar # AB1145 — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1145 QUIRK Assembly Third Reading — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Governance and Finance] — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1145 QUIRK Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Quirk — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-17** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2017-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- **2017-03-09** Referred to Coms. on C. & C. and L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-06** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 5). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2017-04-17** Read second time and amended. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
- **2017-04-18** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-27** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 26). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2017-05-01** Read second time and amended. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
- **2017-05-02** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2017-05-17** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 17). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-05-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-05-26** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1713.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-05-26** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2017-06-08** Referred to Coms. on E., U. & C. and GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-13** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E., U. & C. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction`
- **2017-06-27** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on GOV. & F. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 20). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2017-06-28** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2017-07-05** 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-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction`
- **2017-07-13** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 12). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2017-07-17** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2017-08-21** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 21). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-08-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-08-23** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2017-08-31** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2349.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-08-31** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 2 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2017-09-05** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2928.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2017-09-12** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
- **2017-10-14** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-10-14** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 792, Statutes of 2017.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0d06a8f4-964c-4d4b-8bf0-9cbef5f8da5c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).