republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/sb-427.md

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Bill	Water theft: enhanced penalties.	Existing law authorizes the legislative body of a city or a county to make, by ordinance, any violation of an ordinance subject to an administrative fine or penalty and limits the maximum fine or penalty amounts for infractions, to $100 for the first violation, $200 for a 2nd violation of the same ordinance within one year of the first violation, and $500 for each additional violation of the same ordinance within one year of the first violation.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 427	California SB 427 (20212022)	bill	Water theft: enhanced penalties.	enacted	Eggman	6	23	4	2021-02-12	2021-07-23	openstates	ocd-bill/93bae362-8cf9-40de-9c58-dc35a75a1475	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB427	1e71afe5a787f85a86271740161079da75f10a3144ebd0be69e301816aa4a832	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 427 (20212022) — Water theft: enhanced penalties.

Existing law authorizes the legislative body of a city or a county to make, by ordinance, any violation of an ordinance subject to an administrative fine or penalty and limits the maximum fine or penalty amounts for infractions, to $100 for the first violation, $200 for a 2nd violation of the same ordinance within one year of the first violation, and $500 for each additional violation of the same ordinance within one year of the first violation.

Version chain

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

1. 02/12/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/25/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/12/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/23/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. SB427 (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/14/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Public Safety] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 427 Eggman Senate Third Reading By COOPER — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 8–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Eggman — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-12 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2021-02-16 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
• 2021-02-22 Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
• 2021-02-22 (Ayes 32. Noes 4.)
• 2021-02-22 Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)
• 2021-02-25 Referred to Coms. on GOV. & F. and PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2021-03-24 Set for hearing April 8.
• 2021-03-25 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-04-08 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 727.) (April 8). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-12 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-04-13 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2021-04-13 Ordered to second reading.
• 2021-04-14 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-03 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 1005.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-05-03 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2021-05-13 Referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2021-06-10 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 9). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-14 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-07-12 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2308.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-07-12 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2021-07-15 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2021-07-23 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-07-23 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 137, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/93bae362-8cf9-40de-9c58-dc35a75a1475. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).