republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/sb-492.md

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Bill	Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District: purchase of property: San Jose Water Company.	Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including water corporations, as defined. Under the Public Utilities Act, a public utility is required to seek commission approval prior to selling, leasing, assigning, mortgaging, or otherwise disposing of or encumbering any property necessary or useful in the performance of its duties to the public.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	SB 492	California SB 492 (20172018)	bill	Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District: purchase of property: San Jose Water Company.	enacted	Beall	5	24	7	2017-02-16	2017-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/0e9de2ae-6aa3-41b7-8b3e-deac9dcfcf3b	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB492	a28fc62f6ed7705758ae94af85b198f6a3ce589c54ae248a85746651c26b4aec	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 492 (20172018) — Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District: purchase of property: San Jose Water Company.

Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including water corporations, as defined. Under the Public Utilities Act, a public utility is required to seek commission approval prior to selling, leasing, assigning, mortgaging, or otherwise disposing of or encumbering any property necessary or useful in the performance of its duties to the public.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/20/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 09/28/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. SB492 (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/01/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading SB492 Beall et al. — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 492 Beall Senate Third Reading By STONE — 69–6 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Energy, Utilities and Communications] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Utilities and Energy] — 13–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Beall — primary (person)
• Berman — coauthor (person)
• Chu — coauthor (person)
• Hill — author (person)
• Low — coauthor (person)
• Mark Stone — principal coauthor (person)
• Monning — coauthor (person)
• Mullin — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-16 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2017-02-17 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
• 2017-03-02 Referred to Coms. on N.R. & W. and E., U. & C. referral-committee
• 2017-03-07 Set for hearing March 28.
• 2017-03-20 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-03-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E., U. & C. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (March 28). Re-referred to Com. on E., U. & C. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-03-30 Set for hearing April 18.
• 2017-04-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 1. Page 727.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-04-21 Set for hearing May 1.
• 2017-05-01 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2017-05-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-04 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 952.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-04 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2017-05-26 Referred to Coms. on W.,P., & W. and U. & E. referral-committee
• 2017-06-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on U. & E. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 13). Re-referred to Com. on U. & E. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-07-05 July 5 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2017-07-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (July 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-08-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-08-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-08-31 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 69. Noes 6. Page 2850.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-08-31 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2017-09-06 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2017-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 359, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0e9de2ae-6aa3-41b7-8b3e-deac9dcfcf3b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).