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Bill	Mitigation Fee Act: fees for improvements: reports and audits.	Existing law, the Mitigation Fee Act, imposes certain requirements on a local agency that imposes a fee as a condition of approval of a development project that is imposed to provide for an improvement to be constructed to serve the development project, or a fee for public improvements, as specified. In this regard, the Mitigation Fee Act requires the local agency to deposit the fee in a separate capital facilities account or fund, and to make certain information about the account or fund public annually, as specified. The Mitigation Fee Act requires that information to include an identification of an approximate date by which the construction of the public improvement will commence if the local agency determines that sufficient funds have been collected to complete financing on an incomplete public improvement, as specified. The Mitigation Fee Act also requires that information to include the amount of refunds made to the owners of the lots or units of the development project, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 516	California AB 516 (20232024)	bill	Mitigation Fee Act fees for improvements reports and audits	enacted	Ramos	8	26	7	2023-02-07	2023-10-11	openstates	ocd-bill/691f569e-710f-4f1a-a749-f7fd81ef87c3	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB516	5a7e1e9ac901bfbcb3f6496ff288cc60e764312a2f1ead83b9693e987a58303a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 516 (20232024) — Mitigation Fee Act: fees for improvements: reports and audits.

Existing law, the Mitigation Fee Act, imposes certain requirements on a local agency that imposes a fee as a condition of approval of a development project that is imposed to provide for an improvement to be constructed to serve the development project, or a fee for public improvements, as specified. In this regard, the Mitigation Fee Act requires the local agency to deposit the fee in a separate capital facilities account or fund, and to make certain information about the account or fund public annually, as specified. The Mitigation Fee Act requires that information to include an identification of an approximate date by which the construction of the public improvement will commence if the local agency determines that sufficient funds have been collected to complete financing on an incomplete public improvement, as specified. The Mitigation Fee Act also requires that information to include the amount of refunds made to the owners of the lots or units of the development project, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/07/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/05/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/15/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/05/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/10/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/11/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB516 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/11/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Housing and Community Development] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 516 Ramos Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB516 Ramos By Alvarado-Gil — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 516 Ramos Consent Calendar Second Day — 76–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Ramos — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-07 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2023-02-08 From printer. May be heard in committee March 10.
• 2023-02-17 Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2023-04-05 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-04-06 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2023-04-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 19). Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-04-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-05-17 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 17). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-18 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1811.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2023-06-07 Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2023-06-14 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 14). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-06-15 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-06-22 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2023-06-29 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2023-07-05 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-07-10 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-07-11 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2023-07-12 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-05 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2368.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-05 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 7 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2023-09-07 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3019.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2023-10-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 741, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/691f569e-710f-4f1a-a749-f7fd81ef87c3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).