---
type: "Bill"
title: "Property and business improvement districts."
description: "Existing law, the Property and Business Improvement District Law of 1994, authorizes local governmental entities to levy assessments on properties and businesses within a property and business improvement district for the purpose of financing certain improvements and promoting activities that benefit property in the district. Existing law requires the management district plan for a property-based district to include, among other things, the total amount of all special benefits to be conferred upon the properties located within the property-based district and the total amount of general benefits, if any."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 2890"
citation: "California AB 2890 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Property and business improvement districts."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bloom"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 20
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2022-02-18"
last_action: "2022-07-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/741f8b9c-a225-4741-a69c-d01a1120b311"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2890"
source_hash: "18124bbf7b5240a6ef601f75b60a639101e6ece4912772da02a69f188c6b2855"
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 2890 (20212022) — Property and business improvement districts.

Existing law, the Property and Business Improvement District Law of 1994, authorizes local governmental entities to levy assessments on properties and businesses within a property and business improvement district for the purpose of financing certain improvements and promoting activities that benefit property in the district. Existing law requires the management district plan for a property-based district to include, among other things, the total amount of all special benefits to be conferred upon the properties located within the property-based district and the total amount of general benefits, if any.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/18/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2890&version=20210AB289099INT)
2. **03/24/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2890&version=20210AB289098AMD)
3. **04/19/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2890&version=20210AB289097AMD)
4. **05/05/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2890&version=20210AB289096AMD)
5. **07/19/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2890&version=20210AB289094CHP)
6. **AB2890** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2890)
7. **07/01/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2890&version=20210AB289095ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2890 Bloom Assembly Third Reading — **73–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar AB2890 — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bloom — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-18** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2022-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- **2022-03-24** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-24** 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-1, reading-2`
- **2022-03-28** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-19** 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-1, reading-2`
- **2022-04-20** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-28** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 27). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-05-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-05** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 4568.) `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-05-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 4820.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-05-24** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2022-06-01** Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-22** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 22). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-23** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-06-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4573.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-06-30** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2022-07-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2022-07-19** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-07-19** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 129, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/741f8b9c-a225-4741-a69c-d01a1120b311`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).