---
type: "Bill"
title: "Enhanced infrastructure financing districts: projects: climate change."
description: "Existing law authorizes the legislative body of a city or a county to establish an enhanced infrastructure financing district to finance public capital facilities or other specified projects of communitywide significance, and makes related findings and declarations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 733"
citation: "California AB 733 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Enhanced infrastructure financing districts: projects: climate change."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Berman"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-02-15"
last_action: "2017-10-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/18d3ebbc-7d5d-4ab3-b1c6-768b557b28b1"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB733"
source_hash: "704cb0ab95bddf8c36e76a84e285a5085304c0bbaa31c079aa8d0c11041e0a20"
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 733 (20172018) — Enhanced infrastructure financing districts: projects: climate change.

Existing law authorizes the legislative body of a city or a county to establish an enhanced infrastructure financing district to finance public capital facilities or other specified projects of communitywide significance, and makes related findings and declarations.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/15/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB733&version=20170AB73399INT)
2. **03/23/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB733&version=20170AB73398AMD)
3. **06/26/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB733&version=20170AB73397AMD)
4. **10/11/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB733&version=20170AB73395CHP)
5. **AB733** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB733)
6. **09/08/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB733&version=20170AB73396ENR)

## Votes

- AB 733 BERMAN Assembly Third Reading — **56–17** (pass) · lower
- AB 733 BERMAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **58–20** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB733 Berman et al. By Stern — **27–11** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Environmental Quality] — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **5–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **5–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Berman — primary (person)
- Stern — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-15** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2017-02-16** From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
- **2017-03-02** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-23** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-03-27** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-06** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 3.) (April 5). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-04-17** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-05-04** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 56. Noes 17. Page 1375.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-05-04** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2017-05-18** Referred to Coms. on GOV. & F. and EQ. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-07** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on EQ. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 7). Re-referred to Com. on EQ. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-06-22** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (June 21). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2017-06-26** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
- **2017-09-05** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 11. Page 2471.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-09-05** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 7 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2017-09-07** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 58. Noes 20. Page 3019.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2017-09-13** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2017-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-10-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 657, Statutes of 2017.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/18d3ebbc-7d5d-4ab3-b1c6-768b557b28b1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).