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type: "Bill"
title: "Municipal utility district: utility charges: delinquencies."
description: "(1) The existing Municipal Utility District Act authorizes the formation of a municipal utility district. The act authorizes a district to acquire, construct, own, operate, control, or use works for supplying the inhabitants of the district and public agencies with light, water, power, heat, transportation, telephone service, or other means of communication, or means for the collection, treatment, or disposition of garbage, sewage, or refuse matter. The act authorizes a municipal utility district, by resolution or ordinance, to require the owner of record of privately owned real property within the district to pay the fees, tolls, rates, rentals, or other charges for certain utility services rendered to a lessee, tenant, or subtenant, and provides that those charges that have become delinquent, together with interest and penalties, are a lien on the property when a certificate is filed by the district in the office of the county recorder and that the lien has the force, effect, and priority of a judgment lien."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "SB 188"
citation: "California SB 188 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Municipal utility district: utility charges: delinquencies."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hancock"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2015-02-09"
last_action: "2015-09-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4ddecb12-2152-4d66-9713-23e398ac94bc"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB188"
source_hash: "2a0653e780bcf9172c651da22bf7180c733152381ca45317ee45750e942600bd"
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 188 (20152016) — Municipal utility district: utility charges: delinquencies.
(1) The existing Municipal Utility District Act authorizes the formation of a municipal utility district. The act authorizes a district to acquire, construct, own, operate, control, or use works for supplying the inhabitants of the district and public agencies with light, water, power, heat, transportation, telephone service, or other means of communication, or means for the collection, treatment, or disposition of garbage, sewage, or refuse matter. The act authorizes a municipal utility district, by resolution or ordinance, to require the owner of record of privately owned real property within the district to pay the fees, tolls, rates, rentals, or other charges for certain utility services rendered to a lessee, tenant, or subtenant, and provides that those charges that have become delinquent, together with interest and penalties, are a lien on the property when a certificate is filed by the district in the office of the county recorder and that the lien has the force, effect, and priority of a judgment lien.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/09/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB188&version=20150SB18899INT)
2. **04/14/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB188&version=20150SB18898AMD)
3. **09/04/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB188&version=20150SB18896CHP)
4. **SB188** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB188)
5. **08/24/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB188&version=20150SB18897ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **12–4** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 188 Hancock Senate Third Reading By BONILLA — **68–6** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading — **31–4** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Hancock — primary (person)
- Bonilla — coauthor (person)
- Wieckowski — coauthor (person)
- Wolk — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2015-02-09** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2015-02-10** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 12.
- **2015-02-19** Referred to Coms. on GOV. & F. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-19** Set for hearing April 8.
- **2015-04-13** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 524.) (April 8). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2015-04-14** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-16** Set for hearing April 21.
- **2015-04-22** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1. Page 727.) (April 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-04-24** Set for hearing May 4.
- **2015-05-04** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 884.) (May 4). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-05-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-05-14** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 31. Noes 4. Page 995.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-05-14** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2015-05-28** Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2015-06-17** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-06-30** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (June 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-07-15** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (July 15). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-07-16** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-08-20** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 68. Noes 6. Page 2529.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-08-20** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2015-08-26** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2015-09-04** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2015-09-04** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 270, Statutes of 2015.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4ddecb12-2152-4d66-9713-23e398ac94bc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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