republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/ab-737.md

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Bill	Energy: building decarbonization: notice and recordation of a decarbonization charge.	Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission, or the governing board of a local publicly owned electric utility or electrical cooperative, to require an energy supplier, defined as an electrical corporation, local publicly owned electric utility, electric service provider, community choice aggregator, or electrical cooperative, administering a decarbonization upgrade program or initiative, to record, no later than 30 days after funding a decarbonization upgrade, a notice of decarbonization charge, as defined, with the county recorder of the county where the property subject to the decarbonization charge is located, as specified. Existing law requires, among other things, an energy supplier, within 30 days of full cost recovery of the outstanding charges related to the recorded notice of decarbonization charge, to record a notice of the full cost recovery and removal of the decarbonization charge with the county recorder of the county where the property subject to the decarbonization charge is located.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 737	California AB 737 (20252026)	bill	Energy buildingdecarbonization noticeandrecordationofadecarbonizationcharge	enacted	Quirk-Silva	5	20	6	2025-02-18	2025-10-03	openstates	ocd-bill/87f36366-0eaf-458d-950b-e4638f9051c8	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB737	e1146650790fe3a5dcdb4001ada12bdfcfd45be6ddb99e7cd73210e4b5c7f4af	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 737 (20252026) — Energy: building decarbonization: notice and recordation of a decarbonization charge.

Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission, or the governing board of a local publicly owned electric utility or electrical cooperative, to require an energy supplier, defined as an electrical corporation, local publicly owned electric utility, electric service provider, community choice aggregator, or electrical cooperative, administering a decarbonization upgrade program or initiative, to record, no later than 30 days after funding a decarbonization upgrade, a notice of decarbonization charge, as defined, with the county recorder of the county where the property subject to the decarbonization charge is located, as specified. Existing law requires, among other things, an energy supplier, within 30 days of full cost recovery of the outstanding charges related to the recorded notice of decarbonization charge, to record a notice of the full cost recovery and removal of the decarbonization charge with the county recorder of the county where the property subject to the decarbonization charge is located.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 07/08/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 10/03/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB737 (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/12/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 737 Quirk-Silva Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 68–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB737 Quirk-Silva By Caballero — 35–1 (pass) · upper
• AB 737 Quirk-Silva Consent Calendar Second Day — 69–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 15–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Quirk-Silva — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-18 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2025-03-03 Referred to Com. on U. & E. referral-committee
• 2025-04-03 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-04-30 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 30). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-01 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 1486.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-05-08 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-05-21 Referred to Com. on E., U & C. referral-committee
• 2025-06-17 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2025-07-07 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 1.) (July 1). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-07-08 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-08-19 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2025-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 1. Page 2698.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-09-10 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 68. Noes 0. Page 3235.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-22 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2025-10-03 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-03 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 276, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/87f36366-0eaf-458d-950b-e4638f9051c8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).