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Bill	Public utilities: unionization.	The California Constitution establishes the Public Utilities Commission, with regulatory jurisdiction over all public utilities. Existing law authorizes the commission to fix the rates and charges for every public utility, and requires that those rates and charges be just and reasonable. Existing law requires that any expense resulting from a bonus paid to an executive officer, as defined, of a public utility that has ceased to pay its debts in the ordinary course of business be borne by the shareholders of the public utility and prohibits any such expense from being recovered in rates.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 560	California AB 560 (20192020)	bill	Public utilities: unionization.	enacted	Santiago	6	23	8	2019-02-13	2019-10-02	openstates	ocd-bill/678ce9c9-df7c-4f79-9d73-dfe22e7c81db	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB560	f5e3327c56cdb30f9e640d45dcf0557c8d77616271c75a77d8ee7f8304cb95b7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 560 (20192020) — Public utilities: unionization.

The California Constitution establishes the Public Utilities Commission, with regulatory jurisdiction over all public utilities. Existing law authorizes the commission to fix the rates and charges for every public utility, and requires that those rates and charges be just and reasonable. Existing law requires that any expense resulting from a bonus paid to an executive officer, as defined, of a public utility that has ceased to pay its debts in the ordinary course of business be borne by the shareholders of the public utility and prohibits any such expense from being recovered in rates.

Version chain

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

1. 02/13/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/07/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/20/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/02/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB560 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/06/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 560 Santiago Assembly Third Reading — 67–4 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 15–2 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB560 Santiago et al. By Hill — 31–9 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Labor, Public Employment and Retirement ] — 11–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Labor and Employment] — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 560 Santiago Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 71–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Santiago — primary (person)
• Gloria — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-13 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-02-14 From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
• 2019-03-07 Referred to Coms. on U. & E. and L. & E. referral-committee
• 2019-03-07 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on U. & E. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-03-11 Re-referred to Com. on U. & E. referral-committee
• 2019-04-03 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 3). Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-05-08 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 2.) (May 8). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-05-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 67. Noes 4. Page 1627.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-14 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-05-22 Referred to Coms. on E., U. & C. and L., P.E. & R. referral-committee
• 2019-06-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L., P.E. & R. (Ayes 11. Noes 2.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-06-20 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2019-06-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-07-08 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2019-07-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 9. Page 2440.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-03 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 5 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2019-09-05 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 3017.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-10-02 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-02 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 429, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/678ce9c9-df7c-4f79-9d73-dfe22e7c81db. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).