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Bill	Public utilities: municipal corporations: rights of way.	Existing law grants to every municipal corporation the right to construct, operate, and maintain electric light and power lines across, along, in, under, over, or upon any road, street, alley, avenue, or highway, and across, under, or over any railway, canal, ditch, or flume which the route of the works intersects, crosses, or runs along. Under existing law, before any municipal corporation uses any street, alley, avenue, or highway within any other municipal corporation, it is required to request the other municipal corporation in which the street, alley, avenue, or highway is situated to agree with it upon the location of the use and the terms and conditions to which the use shall be subject. Under existing law, if the 2 municipal corporations are unable to agree on the terms and conditions and location of a use within 3 months after a proposal to do so, the municipal corporation proposing to use a street, alley, avenue, or highway is authorized to bring an action in the superior court against the other municipal corporation to have the terms and conditions and location determined, as prescribed.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 1119	California AB 1119 (20152016)	bill	Public utilities: municipal corporations: rights of way.	enacted	Rendon	5	23	6	2015-02-27	2015-10-09	openstates	ocd-bill/45a17a2b-fff7-4a35-b29b-ad68ac46c264	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1119	fbd6aec36fe0b981683632d53979fd7a8aee46fddc4c570bfedf7138d5411459	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1119 (20152016) — Public utilities: municipal corporations: rights of way.

Existing law grants to every municipal corporation the right to construct, operate, and maintain electric light and power lines across, along, in, under, over, or upon any road, street, alley, avenue, or highway, and across, under, or over any railway, canal, ditch, or flume which the route of the works intersects, crosses, or runs along. Under existing law, before any municipal corporation uses any street, alley, avenue, or highway within any other municipal corporation, it is required to request the other municipal corporation in which the street, alley, avenue, or highway is situated to agree with it upon the location of the use and the terms and conditions to which the use shall be subject. Under existing law, if the 2 municipal corporations are unable to agree on the terms and conditions and location of a use within 3 months after a proposal to do so, the municipal corporation proposing to use a street, alley, avenue, or highway is authorized to bring an action in the superior court against the other municipal corporation to have the terms and conditions and location determined, as prescribed.

Version chain

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

1. 02/27/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/11/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 10/09/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB1119 (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/31/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1119 RENDON Assembly Third Reading — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Governance and Finance] — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1119 Rendon By Hertzberg — 34–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 14–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Rendon — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-27 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2015-03-01 From printer. May be heard in committee March 31.
• 2015-03-02 Read first time. reading-1
• 2015-03-19 Referred to Coms. on U. & C. and L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2015-04-14 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 13). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-04-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-04-16 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. pursuant to Assembly Rule 97. referral-committee
• 2015-05-07 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (May 6). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-05-11 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-05-12 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-05-18 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1482.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-05-18 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-05-28 Referred to Coms. on E., U., & C. and GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2015-06-16 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on GOV. & F. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 16). Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-07-08 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 8). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-07-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-07-13 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2015-07-16 Ordered to third reading.
• 2015-08-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 1. Page 2192.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-08-27 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2015-09-03 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2015-10-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-10-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 670, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/45a17a2b-fff7-4a35-b29b-ad68ac46c264. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).