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Bill	Improvement Act of 1911: contractual assessments.	Existing law, the Improvement Act of 1911, authorizes the legislative body of any public agency, as defined, to determine that it would be convenient, advantageous, and in the public interest to designate an area within the public agency, as specified, within which authorized public agency officials and property owners may enter into voluntary contractual assessments to finance the installation of distributed generation renewable energy sources or energy or water efficiency improvements that are permanently fixed to real property, as specified. Existing law requires the legislative body to make these determinations by adopting a resolution indicating its intention to do so and requires that the resolution include specified information and directs an appropriate public agency official to prepare a prescribed report.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 44	California AB 44 (20092010)	bill	Improvement Act of 1911: contractual assessments.	enacted	Blakeslee	10	33	7	2008-12-01	2010-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/2dcd4b86-d4ad-4dd1-ad4d-eeaf4fa41984	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB44	da0d27bee20f6b74cecb8c69346cf012cfb38af1cdd2a98b57e6105d0b20c36a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 44 (20092010) — Improvement Act of 1911: contractual assessments.

Existing law, the Improvement Act of 1911, authorizes the legislative body of any public agency, as defined, to determine that it would be convenient, advantageous, and in the public interest to designate an area within the public agency, as specified, within which authorized public agency officials and property owners may enter into voluntary contractual assessments to finance the installation of distributed generation renewable energy sources or energy or water efficiency improvements that are permanently fixed to real property, as specified. Existing law requires the legislative body to make these determinations by adopting a resolution indicating its intention to do so and requires that the resolution include specified information and directs an appropriate public agency official to prepare a prescribed report.

Version chain

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

1. 12/01/08 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/18/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/31/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/01/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/03/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/02/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/19/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/30/10 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB44 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/10/10 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended. — pass (pass) · upper
• AB 44 Blakeslee Concurrence in Senate Amendments By Smyth — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — pass (pass) · lower
• Senate amendments be concurred in. — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 44 BLAKESLEE Assembly Third Reading — pass (pass) · lower
• Assembly 3rd Reading AB44 Blakeslee — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Blakeslee — primary (person)
• Benoit — coauthor (person)
• Harkey — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2008-12-01 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2008-12-02 From printer. May be heard in committee January 1.
• 2009-02-05 Referred to Com. on U. & C. referral-committee
• 2009-03-18 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on U. & C. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-03-19 Re-referred to Com. on U. & C. referral-committee
• 2009-03-27 From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (March 23). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-03-31 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-04-01 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2009-04-23 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2009-05-29 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 28). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-06-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-06-02 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-06-02 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1943.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-06-03 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2009-06-18 Referred to Com. on E., U., & C. referral-committee
• 2010-06-03 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-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2010-06-07 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2010-06-07 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2010-06-10 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2010-07-15 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 3. Noes 2.) (June 30). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2010-08-02 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-08-02 (Corrected August 2.)
• 2010-08-19 Read third time, amended. To second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2010-08-20 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-08-26 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 4. Page 4939.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2010-08-26 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2010-08-27 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 6773.)
• 2010-08-27 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2010-08-30 From committee: With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (August 30). committee-passage
• 2010-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 73. Noes 3. Page 6854.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2010-09-13 Enrolled and to the Governor at 5 p.m.
• 2010-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2010-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 564, Statutes of 2010.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2dcd4b86-d4ad-4dd1-ad4d-eeaf4fa41984. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).