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type: "Bill"
title: "Green Empowerment Zone for the Northern Waterfront area of the County of Contra Costa."
description: "Existing law establishes procedures for the formation of infrastructure financing districts, enhanced infrastructure financing districts, infrastructure and revitalization financing districts, community revitalization and investment authorities, and public-private partnerships, as specified, to undertake various economic development projects, including financing public facilities and infrastructure, affordable housing, and economic revitalization."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 844"
citation: "California AB 844 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Green Empowerment Zone for the Northern Waterfront area of the County of Contra Costa."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Grayson"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 30
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2021-02-17"
last_action: "2021-09-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b2eac8c9-a715-40d8-af1f-f3a2613024e3"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB844"
source_hash: "715d7d9ed0b72bfc5fe4d77908312fa4a218ae9716a45f2d0d7b3c4a364f052e"
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 844 (20212022) — Green Empowerment Zone for the Northern Waterfront area of the County of Contra Costa.
Existing law establishes procedures for the formation of infrastructure financing districts, enhanced infrastructure financing districts, infrastructure and revitalization financing districts, community revitalization and investment authorities, and public-private partnerships, as specified, to undertake various economic development projects, including financing public facilities and infrastructure, affordable housing, and economic revitalization.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/17/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB844&version=20210AB84499INT)
2. **03/18/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB844&version=20210AB84498AMD)
3. **04/21/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB844&version=20210AB84497AMD)
4. **05/04/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB844&version=20210AB84496AMD)
5. **06/14/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB844&version=20210AB84495AMD)
6. **06/29/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB844&version=20210AB84494AMD)
7. **09/01/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB844&version=20210AB84493AMD)
8. **09/28/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB844&version=20210AB84491CHP)
9. **AB844** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB844)
10. **09/10/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB844&version=20210AB84492ENR)
## Votes
- 3rd Reading AB844 Grayson et al. By Dodd — **360** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **50** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Governance and Finance] — **110** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. — **60** (pass) · lower
- AB 844 Grayson Consent Calendar Second Day — **740** (pass) · lower
- AB 844 Grayson Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **790** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Grayson — primary (person)
- Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
- Becker — principal coauthor (person)
- Dodd — principal coauthor (person)
- Eggman — 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.
- **2021-03-18** Referred to Com. on J.,E.D., & E. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-18** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on J.,E.D., & E. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-03-22** Re-referred to Com. on J.,E.D., & E. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-21** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on J.,E.D., & E. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-04-22** Re-referred to Com. on J.,E.D., & E. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-03** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 27). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2021-05-04** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-05-05** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-05-10** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1366.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-05-11** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2021-05-19** Referred to Coms. on B., P. & E.D. and GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-07** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2021-06-14** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-21** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on GOV. & F. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-29** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-07-08** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 8). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-07-12** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-07-12** From Consent Calendar.
- **2021-07-12** Ordered to third reading.
- **2021-09-01** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-09-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-09-07** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 2459.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-09-07** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 9 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2021-09-08** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 59. Noes 17. Page 2875.)
- **2021-09-08** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2907.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-09-15** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
- **2021-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2021-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 377, 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/b2eac8c9-a715-40d8-af1f-f3a2613024e3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).