republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/ab-217.md

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Bill	Electricity: solar electricity: low-income households.	Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Decisions of the commission adopted the California Solar Initiative administered by the state's 3 largest electrical corporations and subject to the commission's supervision. Existing law requires the commission to ensure that not less than 10% of the funds for the California Solar Initiative are utilized for the installation of solar energy systems, as defined, on low-income residential housing, as defined. Pursuant to this requirement, the commission adopted decisions that established the Single-Family Affordable Solar Homes Program (SASH) and the Multifamily Affordable Solar Housing Program (MASH) , pursuant to which the electrical corporations provide monetary incentives for the installation of solar energy systems on low-income residential housing. The SASH and MASH programs will operate until December 31, 2016, or until funds collected for the above purposes are exhausted, whichever occurs sooner.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 217	California AB 217 (20132014)	bill	Electricity: solar electricity: low-income households.	enacted	Bradford	10	29	8	2013-01-31	2013-10-07	openstates	ocd-bill/8cbd51f1-8565-4a46-a89d-3cd63aedac66	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB217	5efa7a5241783289df882a98126894e083401f260aad9e46603d19b6e61347e8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 217 (20132014) — Electricity: solar electricity: low-income households.

Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Decisions of the commission adopted the California Solar Initiative administered by the state's 3 largest electrical corporations and subject to the commission's supervision. Existing law requires the commission to ensure that not less than 10% of the funds for the California Solar Initiative are utilized for the installation of solar energy systems, as defined, on low-income residential housing, as defined. Pursuant to this requirement, the commission adopted decisions that established the Single-Family Affordable Solar Homes Program (SASH) and the Multifamily Affordable Solar Housing Program (MASH) , pursuant to which the electrical corporations provide monetary incentives for the installation of solar energy systems on low-income residential housing. The SASH and MASH programs will operate until December 31, 2016, or until funds collected for the above purposes are exhausted, whichever occurs sooner.

Version chain

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

1. 01/31/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/01/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/16/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/25/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/10/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/03/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/06/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 10/07/13 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB217 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/18/13 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 217 BRADFORD Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 55–21 (pass) · lower
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 8–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB217 Bradford By De León — 27–11 (pass) · upper
• AB 217 BRADFORD Assembly Third Reading — 54–23 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 12–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 12–5 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bradford — primary (person)
• De León — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-01-31 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2013-02-01 From printer. May be heard in committee March 3.
• 2013-02-15 Referred to Com. on U. & C. referral-committee
• 2013-04-01 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on U. & C. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-04-02 Re-referred to Com. on U. & C. referral-committee
• 2013-04-15 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 3.) (April 8). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-04-16 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-04-17 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2013-05-01 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2013-05-24 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 24). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-05-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-05-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 54. Noes 23. Page 1787.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-06-03 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2013-06-13 Referred to Com. on E., U., & C. referral-committee
• 2013-06-25 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E., U., & C. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-07-09 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (July 2). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-07-10 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-08-08 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2013-08-19 In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2013-08-30 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-03 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-06 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-09-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 11. Page 2359.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-09-11 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2013-09-12 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 55. Noes 21. Page 3295.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-25 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2013-10-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2013-10-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 609, Statutes of 2013.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8cbd51f1-8565-4a46-a89d-3cd63aedac66. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).