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Bill	City property: sale of water utility property.	Existing law, until January 1, 2022, authorizes the City of El Monte, the City of Montebello, and the City of Willows to sell its public utility for furnishing water service for the purpose of consolidating the system with another public water system if the potentially subsumed public water system is wholly within the boundaries of the city and the city determines that it is uneconomical and not in the public interest to own and operate the public utility, subject to additional requirements. Existing law prohibits the sale of the public utility or requires an election to be called for voters to approve the sale if a certain percentage of interested persons protest the sale of the public utility, and defines "interested person" to mean a person who is a resident of the city.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 850	California AB 850 (20212022)	bill	City property: sale of water utility property.	enacted	Gallagher	6	24	7	2021-02-17	2021-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/3bcd0819-d9b5-4420-9f01-47eea56fbe56	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB850	e44ed82e10d6b0fc5a074b57980916a3778dba411b546ab6717a87eeb8e496e4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 850 (20212022) — City property: sale of water utility property.

Existing law, until January 1, 2022, authorizes the City of El Monte, the City of Montebello, and the City of Willows to sell its public utility for furnishing water service for the purpose of consolidating the system with another public water system if the potentially subsumed public water system is wholly within the boundaries of the city and the city determines that it is uneconomical and not in the public interest to own and operate the public utility, subject to additional requirements. Existing law prohibits the sale of the public utility or requires an election to be called for voters to approve the sale if a certain percentage of interested persons protest the sale of the public utility, and defines "interested person" to mean a person who is a resident of the city.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/22/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/18/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/08/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB850 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/03/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 850 Gallagher Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 850 Gallagher Consent Calendar Second Day — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB850 Gallagher et al. By Archuleta — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Gallagher — primary (person)
• Gipson — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2021-02-18 From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
• 2021-02-25 Referred to Coms. on W.,P., & W. and L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2021-03-22 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on W.,P., & W. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-03-23 Re-referred to Com. on W.,P., & W. referral-committee
• 2021-04-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-04-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-05-19 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1655.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-05-28 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-06-09 Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2021-07-01 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-07-15 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2021-08-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-18 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-08-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2228.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 2 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2021-09-01 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 58. Noes 17. Page 2625.)
• 2021-09-01 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2648.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-08 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2021-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 705, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3bcd0819-d9b5-4420-9f01-47eea56fbe56. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).