Water and sewer system corporations: consolidation of service.
The Public Utilities Act prohibits, with certain exemptions, any public utility from selling, leasing, assigning, mortgaging, or otherwise disposing of or encumbering specified property necessary or useful in the performance of the public utility's duties to the public without first, for qualified transactions valued above $5,000,000, securing an order from the Public Utilities Commission authorizing it to do so or, for qualified transactions valued at $5,000,000 or less, filing an advice letter and obtaining approval from the commission.
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California Legislature
20212022
AB 1250
California AB 1250 (20212022)
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Water and sewer system corporations: consolidation of service.
California AB 1250 (20212022) — Water and sewer system corporations: consolidation of service.
The Public Utilities Act prohibits, with certain exemptions, any public utility from selling, leasing, assigning, mortgaging, or otherwise disposing of or encumbering specified property necessary or useful in the performance of the public utility's duties to the public without first, for qualified transactions valued above $5,000,000, securing an order from the Public Utilities Commission authorizing it to do so or, for qualified transactions valued at $5,000,000 or less, filing an advice letter and obtaining approval from the commission.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 15–0 (pass) · lower
Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Environmental Quality] — 13–0 (pass) · upper
Special Consent AB1250 — 37–0 (pass) · upper
AB 1250 Calderon Assembly Third Reading — 75–0 (pass) · lower
AB 1250 Calderon Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 70–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Utilities and Energy] — 9–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
Calderon — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2021-02-19 Introduced. To print. introduction
2021-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
2021-02-22 Read first time. reading-1
2021-03-04 Referred to Coms. on E.S. & T.M. and U. & E. referral-committee
2021-04-07 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on U. & E. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 7). Re-referred to Com. on U. & E. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2021-04-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2021-05-05 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
2021-05-20 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (May 20). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
2021-05-24 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
2021-05-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2021-06-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1787.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
2021-06-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2021-06-16 Referred to Coms. on E., U. & C. and E.Q. referral-committee
2021-07-01 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on E.Q. (Ayes 13. Noes 0. Page 1692.) (June 28). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
2021-07-05 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.Q. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2021-07-07 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2021-08-16 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
2021-08-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 26). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2021-08-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2021-08-31 Ordered to special consent calendar.
2021-09-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2392.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
2021-09-03 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 5 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
2021-09-07 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 2849.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2021-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
2021-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2021-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 713, Statutes of 2021. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0d902a09-2244-4e2e-a3f6-a06a0d88273a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).