Contractual assessments: water efficiency improvements.
Existing law authorizes the legislative body of any city, defined as a city, county, or city and county, to determine that it would be convenient and advantageous to designate an area within which authorized city officials and free and willing property owners may enter into contractual assessments and make arrangements to finance public improvements to specified lots or parcels or to finance the installation of distributed generation renewable energy sources or energy 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 the resolution to include certain specified information.
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California Legislature
20092010
AB 474
California AB 474 (20092010)
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Contractual assessments: water efficiency improvements.
California AB 474 (20092010) — Contractual assessments: water efficiency improvements.
Existing law authorizes the legislative body of any city, defined as a city, county, or city and county, to determine that it would be convenient and advantageous to designate an area within which authorized city officials and free and willing property owners may enter into contractual assessments and make arrangements to finance public improvements to specified lots or parcels or to finance the installation of distributed generation renewable energy sources or energy 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 the resolution to include certain specified information.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2009-02-24 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2009-02-25 From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
2009-03-16 Referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
2009-04-13 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
2009-04-14 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
2009-04-16 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
2009-04-23 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (April 22). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
2009-04-27 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
2009-04-28 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2009-05-18 Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. (Page 1530.). reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
2009-05-21 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 61. Noes 14. Page 1606.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
2009-05-21 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2009-06-04 Referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
2009-06-25 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
2009-07-01 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
2009-07-08 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 3. Noes 1.) (July 8). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2009-07-09 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2009-09-04 Read third time, amended. To second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
2009-09-08 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2009-09-09 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 26. Noes 10. Page 2317.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
2009-09-10 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2009-09-10 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 62. Noes 15. Page 3294.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2009-09-25 Enrolled and to the Governor at 5 p.m.
2009-10-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2009-10-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 444, Statutes of 2009.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f08618e0-159c-4110-a81c-ebe7ff16d28e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).