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Bill	Property assessments: requirements and disclosures.	(1) Existing law, commonly known as the Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) program, authorizes public agency officials and property owners, as provided, to enter into voluntary contractual assessments, known as PACE assessments, to finance the installation of distributed generation renewable energy sources or energy or water efficiency improvements that are permanently fixed to real property.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 1551	California AB 1551 (20192020)	bill	Property assessments: requirements and disclosures.	enacted	Arambula	10	33	7	2019-02-22	2020-09-25	openstates	ocd-bill/d5d885ed-e5bf-44f2-9c85-ae1a33027e23	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1551	287597ed780a582dab9865a09d03895585fb84b26c6cae2583945ebe8a56df5c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1551 (20192020) — Property assessments: requirements and disclosures.

(1) Existing law, commonly known as the Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) program, authorizes public agency officials and property owners, as provided, to enter into voluntary contractual assessments, known as PACE assessments, to finance the installation of distributed generation renewable energy sources or energy or water efficiency improvements that are permanently fixed to real property.

Version chain

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

1. 02/22/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/06/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 01/16/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 03/28/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 04/01/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/17/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/24/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/25/20 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB1551 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/01/20 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Banking and Finance] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1551 Arambula Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1551 Arambula Assembly Third Reading — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1551 Arambula et al. By Caballero — 30–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Arambula — primary (person)
• Melendez — coauthor (person)
• Salas — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-22 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2019-02-23 From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
• 2019-02-25 Read first time. reading-1
• 2019-03-28 Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and B. & F. referral-committee
• 2019-03-28 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-01 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2019-04-01 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-02 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2019-04-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on B. & F. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on B. & F. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-01-06 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & F. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2020-01-07 Re-referred to Com. on B. & F. referral-committee
• 2020-01-15 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (January 13). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2020-01-16 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-01-17 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2020-01-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (January 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2020-01-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-01-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3898.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-01-28 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2020-06-23 Referred to Com. on B. & F.I. referral-committee
• 2020-07-09 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2020-07-30 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2020-08-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-08-17 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2020-08-19 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2020-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-24 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 0. Page 4360.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-27 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2020-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5335.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-09-08 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2020-09-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2020-09-25 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 156, Statutes of 2020.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d5d885ed-e5bf-44f2-9c85-ae1a33027e23. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).