republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/sb-1112.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Utilities: water and sewer system corporations: transactions."
description: "The Public Utilities Act prohibits, with certain exemptions, any public utility other than a common carrier by railroad from selling, leasing, assigning, mortgaging, or otherwise disposing of or encumbering the whole or any part of specified property necessary or useful in the performance of the public utility's duties to the public, among other things, without first either having secured an order from the Public Utilities Commission authorizing it to do so for qualified transactions valued above $5,000,000, or for qualified transactions valued at $5,000,000 or less, having filed an advice letter and obtained approval from the commission authorizing it to do so. Under existing law, every sale, lease, assignment, mortgage, disposition, encumbrance, merger, or consolidation made other than in accordance with the advice letter and approval from the commission authorizing it is void."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "SB 1112"
citation: "California SB 1112 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Utilities: water and sewer system corporations: transactions."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cannella"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 30
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2016-02-17"
last_action: "2016-09-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/686a0054-25df-44de-a76a-b318a4e5e9b4"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1112"
source_hash: "a6e79d5e21e45c045d0ae53980cacbec4c36ba56eed8b2544bb851bcd1653977"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California SB 1112 (20152016) — Utilities: water and sewer system corporations: transactions.

The Public Utilities Act prohibits, with certain exemptions, any public utility other than a common carrier by railroad from selling, leasing, assigning, mortgaging, or otherwise disposing of or encumbering the whole or any part of specified property necessary or useful in the performance of the public utility's duties to the public, among other things, without first either having secured an order from the Public Utilities Commission authorizing it to do so for qualified transactions valued above $5,000,000, or for qualified transactions valued at $5,000,000 or less, having filed an advice letter and obtained approval from the commission authorizing it to do so. Under existing law, every sale, lease, assignment, mortgage, disposition, encumbrance, merger, or consolidation made other than in accordance with the advice letter and approval from the commission authorizing it is void.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/17/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1112&version=20150SB111299INT)
2. **04/27/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1112&version=20150SB111298AMD)
3. **08/01/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1112&version=20150SB111297AMD)
4. **08/11/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1112&version=20150SB111296AMD)
5. **09/25/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1112&version=20150SB111294CHP)
6. **SB1112** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1112)
7. **08/29/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1112&version=20150SB111295ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. — **19–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 1112 Cannella Consent Calendar Second Day — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent (Urgency Clause) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **15–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Cannella — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-02-17** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2016-02-18** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
- **2016-02-25** Referred to Com. on E., U., & C. `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-09** Set for hearing March 29.
- **2016-03-16** March 29 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2016-03-17** Set for hearing April 5.
- **2016-03-31** April 5 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2016-04-01** Set for hearing April 19.
- **2016-04-26** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 3593.) (April 19). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-04-27** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-05-06** Set for hearing May 16.
- **2016-05-16** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2016-05-17** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-05-26** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 3954.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-05-26** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2016-06-06** Referred to Com. on U. & C. `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-21** June 22 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2016-06-30** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 29). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-08-01** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-10** From committee: Do pass as amended. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (August 10). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-08-11** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-08-15** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-08-18** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 5927.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-19** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2016-08-23** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2016-08-25** Urgency clause adopted.
- **2016-08-25** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5430.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2016-08-31** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2016-09-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-09-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 631, Statutes of 2016.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/686a0054-25df-44de-a76a-b318a4e5e9b4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).