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Bill	Rates and charges for water service: payment transaction fees.	Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical, gas, and water corporations. Existing law authorizes the commission to fix the rates and charges for every public utility, and requires that those rates and charges be just and reasonable. Existing law authorizes an electrical, gas, or water corporation to offer credit card and debit card bill payment options, if approved by the commission, and, upon approval, authorizes an electrical, gas, or water corporation to recover, through an individual customer transaction fee, reasonable transaction costs incurred by the electrical, gas, or water corporation from those customers that choose those methods of payment. Existing law includes statements of legislative intent relative to electrical, gas, and water corporations offering customers the option to pay by credit card or debit card.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 1180	California AB 1180 (20152016)	bill	Rates and charges for water service: payment transaction fees.	enacted	Cristina Garcia	9	32	7	2015-02-27	2016-09-09	openstates	ocd-bill/f0de4f53-a39e-4d06-a939-0c5a1121c9b2	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1180	e0a29dd996e9a2176b3380a986cf17d759d4a2d1b055ca468e6af303dc2080c3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1180 (20152016) — Rates and charges for water service: payment transaction fees.

Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical, gas, and water corporations. Existing law authorizes the commission to fix the rates and charges for every public utility, and requires that those rates and charges be just and reasonable. Existing law authorizes an electrical, gas, or water corporation to offer credit card and debit card bill payment options, if approved by the commission, and, upon approval, authorizes an electrical, gas, or water corporation to recover, through an individual customer transaction fee, reasonable transaction costs incurred by the electrical, gas, or water corporation from those customers that choose those methods of payment. Existing law includes statements of legislative intent relative to electrical, gas, and water corporations offering customers the option to pay by credit card or debit card.

Version chain

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

1. 02/27/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/04/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 01/13/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/09/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/06/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/08/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/09/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB1180 (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/23/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1180 GARCIA, C. Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1180 Cristina Garcia By Cannella — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1180 GARCIA, C. Assembly Third Reading — 71–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Natural Resources and Water] — 11–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Cristina Garcia — 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
• 2015-03-23 Referred to Com. on U. & C. referral-committee
• 2015-04-09 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on U. & C. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-13 Re-referred to Com. on U. & C. referral-committee
• 2015-04-13 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2016-01-04 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on U. & C. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-01-04 Re-referred to Com. on U. & C. referral-committee
• 2016-01-12 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (January 11). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-01-13 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-01-14 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2016-01-21 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2016-01-21 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (January 21). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-01-21 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-01-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 3. Page 3477.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-01-25 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-02-04 Referred to Coms. on E., U., & C. and N.R. & W. referral-committee
• 2016-06-06 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. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on N.R. & W. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 13). Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-06-14 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2016-06-14 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2016-06-27 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-06-28 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-08 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-15 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4980.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-16 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 18 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-08-22 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 6040.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-26 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2016-09-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 254, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f0de4f53-a39e-4d06-a939-0c5a1121c9b2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).