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Bill	Public capital facilities: public water or wastewater agencies: rate reduction bonds.	Existing law authorizes certain joint powers authorities, upon application by a local agency that owns and operates a publicly owned utility, defined to mean certain utilities furnishing water service to not less than 25,000 customers, to issue rate reduction bonds to finance utility projects, as defined, subject to certain requirements. Under existing law, these rate reduction bonds are secured by a pledge of utility project property, and the joint powers authority issuing the bonds may impose on, and collect from, customers of the publicly owned utility a utility project charge to finance the bonds, as provided. Existing law requires the California Pollution Control Financing Authority, among other things, to review each issuance of rate reduction bonds issued under these provisions and to submit an annual report to the Legislature containing specified information on its activities under these provisions for the preceding year. Existing law, after December 31, 2020, prohibits a joint powers authority from issuing rate reduction bonds under these provisions and no longer requires the California Pollution Control Financing Authority to submit an annual report to the Legislature.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 305	California AB 305 (20192020)	bill	Public capital facilities: public water or wastewater agencies: rate reduction bonds.	enacted	Nazarian	6	21	6	2019-01-29	2019-09-05	openstates	ocd-bill/8324128c-d698-491c-8845-2a3bcff010d3	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB305	cec3ab90a32178299e8756a473572d4692da4fd21771fc460358af92a07e0aac	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 305 (20192020) — Public capital facilities: public water or wastewater agencies: rate reduction bonds.

Existing law authorizes certain joint powers authorities, upon application by a local agency that owns and operates a publicly owned utility, defined to mean certain utilities furnishing water service to not less than 25,000 customers, to issue rate reduction bonds to finance utility projects, as defined, subject to certain requirements. Under existing law, these rate reduction bonds are secured by a pledge of utility project property, and the joint powers authority issuing the bonds may impose on, and collect from, customers of the publicly owned utility a utility project charge to finance the bonds, as provided. Existing law requires the California Pollution Control Financing Authority, among other things, to review each issuance of rate reduction bonds issued under these provisions and to submit an annual report to the Legislature containing specified information on its activities under these provisions for the preceding year. Existing law, after December 31, 2020, prohibits a joint powers authority from issuing rate reduction bonds under these provisions and no longer requires the California Pollution Control Financing Authority to submit an annual report to the Legislature.

Version chain

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

1. 01/29/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/12/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/11/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/05/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB305 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/23/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 305 Nazarian Consent Calendar Second Day — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB305 Nazarian By Stern — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 18–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Nazarian — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-29 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-01-30 From printer. May be heard in committee March 1.
• 2019-02-11 Referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2019-03-12 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
• 2019-03-13 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2019-04-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-11 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-22 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2019-04-24 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 24). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-04-25 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1474.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-05-16 Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2019-06-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-07-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 1). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-07-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-08-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2241.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-08-22 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2019-08-27 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-09-05 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-09-05 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 225, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8324128c-d698-491c-8845-2a3bcff010d3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).