Existing law, the Improvement Act of 1911 (Improvement Act) , 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.
California AB 1883 (20132014) — Public improvements: contractual assessments.
Existing law, the Improvement Act of 1911 (Improvement Act) , 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.
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.
2014-02-19 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2014-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
2014-02-27 Referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
2014-04-10 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-2, reading-1
2014-04-21 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
2014-04-29 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-2, reading-1
2014-04-30 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
2014-05-08 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (May 7). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2014-05-12 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2014-05-15 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 4961.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
2014-05-15 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2014-05-22 Referred to Coms. on GOV. & F. and APPR. referral-committee
2014-06-11 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
2014-06-18 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
2014-06-30 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 25). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
2014-07-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
2014-07-02 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
2014-08-04 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and be amended. committee-passage, amendment-passage
2014-08-05 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
2014-08-14 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 1. Page 4496.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
2014-08-14 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 16 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
2014-08-19 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6181.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
2014-09-02 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
2014-09-26 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2014-09-26 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 599, Statutes of 2014.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e5fb1985-8701-4717-9004-ce64cc541b95. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).