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Bill	Land use: fees.	(1) Existing law requires fees charged by a local agency for specified purposes to not exceed the estimated reasonable cost of providing the service for which the fee is charged, unless a question regarding the amount of the fee charged in excess of this cost is submitted to, and approved by, 23 of the electors. The Planning and Zoning law requires a city or county to administratively approve applications to install solar energy systems, as defined, through the issuance of a building permit or similar nondiscretionary permit.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 1801	California AB 1801 (20112012)	bill	Land use: fees.	enacted	Campos	8	23	5	2012-02-21	2012-09-25	openstates	ocd-bill/b62893ea-cce4-4bd0-9866-ebd34410521e	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1801	1b851e4b36025967a32e4da6d4a0297a64ef02a08db6b1baf90fc266086e0c54	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1801 (20112012) — Land use: fees.

(1) Existing law requires fees charged by a local agency for specified purposes to not exceed the estimated reasonable cost of providing the service for which the fee is charged, unless a question regarding the amount of the fee charged in excess of this cost is submitted to, and approved by, 23 of the electors. The Planning and Zoning law requires a city or county to administratively approve applications to install solar energy systems, as defined, through the issuance of a building permit or similar nondiscretionary permit.

Version chain

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

1. 02/21/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/09/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/23/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/18/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/06/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/25/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1801 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/16/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended. — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1801 Campos By Leno — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1801 CAMPOS Assembly Third Reading — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1801 CAMPOS Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 8–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Campos — primary (person)
• Alejo — principal coauthor (person)
• Williams — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-21 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2012-02-22 From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
• 2012-03-26 Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2012-04-09 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-04-09 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2012-04-10 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2012-04-23 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-04-24 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2012-05-03 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (May 2). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-10 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 4776.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-05-10 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-05-24 Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2012-06-15 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 13). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-06-18 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-06 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4436.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 11 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-08-13 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5903.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
• 2012-09-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-25 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 538, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b62893ea-cce4-4bd0-9866-ebd34410521e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).