---
type: "Bill"
title: "Local government: fees and charges: water: higher consumptive water parcels."
description: "The California Constitution specifies various requirements with respect to the levying of assessments and property-related fees and charges by a local agency, including requiring that the local agency provide public notice and a majority protest procedure in the case of assessments and submit property-related fees and charges for approval by property owners subject to the fee or charge or the electorate residing in the affected area following a public hearing."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 1827"
citation: "California AB 1827 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Local government", "fees and charges", "higher consumptive water parcels", "water"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Papan"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 17
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-01-12"
last_action: "2024-09-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6d59641b-7050-4e0c-8ddf-9ece492e49ea"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1827"
source_hash: "b59dcab57923832aca49a26b0582ed52a2aa8a45a52a0ca8ca2e38a68a8e213e"
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 1827 (20232024) — Local government: fees and charges: water: higher consumptive water parcels.

The California Constitution specifies various requirements with respect to the levying of assessments and property-related fees and charges by a local agency, including requiring that the local agency provide public notice and a majority protest procedure in the case of assessments and submit property-related fees and charges for approval by property owners subject to the fee or charge or the electorate residing in the affected area following a public hearing.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/12/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1827&version=20230AB182799INT)
2. **04/04/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1827&version=20230AB182798AMD)
3. **09/22/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1827&version=20230AB182796CHP)
4. **AB1827** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1827)
5. **08/22/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1827&version=20230AB182797ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB1827 Papan By Min — **30–9** (pass) · upper
- AB 1827 Papan Assembly Third Reading — **55–15** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **7–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Papan — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-12** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2024-01-13** From printer. May be heard in committee February 12.
- **2024-01-29** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-04** 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`
- **2024-04-08** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-25** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (April 24). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-29** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-05-20** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 55. Noes 15. Page 5302.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-05-21** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2024-05-29** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-26** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 26). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-06-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-20** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 9. Page 5228.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-20** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2024-08-27** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m.
- **2024-09-22** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-09-22** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 359, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6d59641b-7050-4e0c-8ddf-9ece492e49ea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).