---
type: "Bill"
title: "Street lighting systems: City of West Covina."
description: "(1) Existing law, the Landscaping and Lighting Act of 1972, authorizes local agencies, including a city or county, to form an assessment district for the purpose of making improvements by, among other things, installing landscaping."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "SB 431"
citation: "California SB 431 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Street lighting systems: City of West Covina."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rubio"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-02-12"
last_action: "2021-06-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/635ebc3c-219e-44ba-be50-67829d4d7d1f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB431"
source_hash: "c3020b38ce220e4338d83a70a178c4c0d2294d81716e52818d371b68512de5e4"
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 SB 431 (20212022) — Street lighting systems: City of West Covina.

(1) Existing law, the Landscaping and Lighting Act of 1972, authorizes local agencies, including a city or county, to form an assessment district for the purpose of making improvements by, among other things, installing landscaping.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/12/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB431&version=20210SB43199INT)
2. **03/17/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB431&version=20210SB43198AMD)
3. **06/28/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB431&version=20210SB43196CHP)
4. **SB431** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB431)
5. **06/18/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB431&version=20210SB43197ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 431 Rubio Consent Calendar Second Day — **72–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **8–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rubio — primary (person)
- Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-12** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-02-16** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
- **2021-02-22** Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
- **2021-02-22** (Ayes 32. Noes 4.)
- **2021-02-22** Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)
- **2021-02-25** Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-02** Set for hearing March 11.
- **2021-03-02** March 11 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2021-03-16** Set for hearing March 25.
- **2021-03-17** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-25** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 633.) (March 25). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-05** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-04-08** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 715.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-04-08** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2021-05-13** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-10** Coauthors revised.
- **2021-06-10** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 9). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-14** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-06-17** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 2017.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-06-17** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2021-06-23** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
- **2021-06-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 35, Statutes of 2021. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/635ebc3c-219e-44ba-be50-67829d4d7d1f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).