republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/ab-1058.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Large water corporations: bill payment options."
description: "Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical, gas, and water corporations. Existing law authorizes the commission to fix the rates and charges for every public utility, and requires that those rates and charges be just and reasonable. Existing law authorizes an electrical, gas, or water corporation to offer credit card and debit card bill payment options, if approved by the commission, and, upon approval, authorizes an electrical, gas, or water corporation to recover, through an individual customer transaction fee, reasonable transaction costs incurred by the electrical, gas, or water corporation from those customers that choose those methods of payment."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 1058"
citation: "California AB 1058 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Large water corporations: bill payment options."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cristina Garcia"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2021-02-18"
last_action: "2021-09-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8dea5bb7-b235-488c-9ea7-ca7f1f347986"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1058"
source_hash: "26e06e8bab1e3ff5b2d1aaec50483fee4719ccd0b394a90514438451840a3762"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 1058 (20212022) — Large water corporations: bill payment options.

Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical, gas, and water corporations. Existing law authorizes the commission to fix the rates and charges for every public utility, and requires that those rates and charges be just and reasonable. Existing law authorizes an electrical, gas, or water corporation to offer credit card and debit card bill payment options, if approved by the commission, and, upon approval, authorizes an electrical, gas, or water corporation to recover, through an individual customer transaction fee, reasonable transaction costs incurred by the electrical, gas, or water corporation from those customers that choose those methods of payment.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/18/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1058&version=20210AB105899INT)
2. **04/12/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1058&version=20210AB105898AMD)
3. **08/23/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1058&version=20210AB105897AMD)
4. **09/23/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1058&version=20210AB105895CHP)
5. **AB1058** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1058)
6. **09/03/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1058&version=20210AB105896ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1058 Cristina Garcia Consent Calendar Second Day — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1058 Cristina Garcia Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **12–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB1058 Cristina Garcia By Dodd — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cristina Garcia — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2021-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- **2021-03-04** Referred to Com. on U. & E. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-08** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 7). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-12** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-04-13** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-21** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 21). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-22** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-04-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1252.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-05-03** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2021-05-12** Referred to Com. on E., U. & C. `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-15** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-21** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2021-06-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-08-23** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-08-24** 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 2230.). `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 2650.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-09-08** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2021-09-23** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2021-09-23** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 269, Statutes of 2021. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8dea5bb7-b235-488c-9ea7-ca7f1f347986`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).