republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/sb-323.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Local government: water or sewer service: legal actions."
description: "The Mitigation Fee Act authorizes a local agency to establish, increase, or impose a variety of fees, dedications, reservations, or other exactions for services, and in connection with the approval of a development project, as defined. Existing law prohibits a local agency from imposing fees for specified purposes, including fees for water or sewer connections, as defined, that exceed the estimated reasonable cost of providing the service for which the fee is charged, unless voter approval is obtained. Existing law provides that a local agency levying a new water or sewer connection fee or increasing a fee must do so by ordinance or resolution."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "SB 323"
citation: "California SB 323 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Local government: water or sewer service: legal actions."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Caballero"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 33
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2021-02-05"
last_action: "2021-09-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/18c459f1-ec2b-4c92-af62-dfa69e9d5ab1"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB323"
source_hash: "2e0331b46c6d3de95711c541df7109d2d32b06351badc59c911b6041dabf4895"
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 SB 323 (20212022) — Local government: water or sewer service: legal actions.

The Mitigation Fee Act authorizes a local agency to establish, increase, or impose a variety of fees, dedications, reservations, or other exactions for services, and in connection with the approval of a development project, as defined. Existing law prohibits a local agency from imposing fees for specified purposes, including fees for water or sewer connections, as defined, that exceed the estimated reasonable cost of providing the service for which the fee is charged, unless voter approval is obtained. Existing law provides that a local agency levying a new water or sewer connection fee or increasing a fee must do so by ordinance or resolution.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/05/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB323&version=20210SB32399INT)
2. **03/17/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB323&version=20210SB32398AMD)
3. **06/23/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB323&version=20210SB32397AMD)
4. **07/07/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB323&version=20210SB32396AMD)
5. **08/16/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB323&version=20210SB32395AMD)
6. **09/22/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB323&version=20210SB32393CHP)
7. **SB323** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB323)
8. **09/14/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB323&version=20210SB32394ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **4–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB323 Caballero et al. Concurrence — **33–2** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading SB323 Caballero et al. — **34–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 323 Caballero Senate Third Reading By Luz Rivas — **77–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Caballero — primary (person)
- Hurtado — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-05** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
- **2021-02-08** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 10.
- **2021-02-08** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2021-02-17** Referred to Coms. on GOV. & F. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **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.)
- **2021-03-02** Set for hearing March 11.
- **2021-03-08** March 11 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2021-03-11** Set for hearing March 25.
- **2021-03-17** 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`
- **2021-03-25** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 633.) (March 25). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-06** Set for hearing April 20.
- **2021-04-21** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 859.) (April 20). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-05-06** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 34. Noes 1. Page 1035.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-05-06** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2021-05-13** Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 9). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-22** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 22). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-23** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-06-24** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-06-24** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5. `referral-committee`
- **2021-07-07** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-08-16** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-08-19** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 19). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-08-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-09-09** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3015.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-09-09** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2021-09-10** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 33. Noes 2. Page 2610.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-09-17** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
- **2021-09-22** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2021-09-23** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 216, 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/18c459f1-ec2b-4c92-af62-dfa69e9d5ab1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).