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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Metropolitan water districts: proxy vote authorizations."
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description: "Under the Metropolitan Water District Act, the board of a metropolitan water district is required to consist of at least one representative from each member public agency, as prescribed. The act authorizes each member public agency to appoint additional representatives not exceeding one additional representative for each 5% of the assessed valuation of property taxable for district purposes within the entire district that is within the boundaries of that member public agency."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20252026"
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identifier: "AB 523"
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citation: "California AB 523 (20252026)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Metropolitanwaterdistricts", "proxyvoteauthorizations"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Irwin"]
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version_count: 6
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action_count: 18
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vote_count: 4
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first_action: "2025-02-10"
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last_action: "2025-10-03"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9d87d345-1a43-45d5-ab4e-7f5caacb7b03"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB523"
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source_hash: "b4a8b8f5b354d67e439f75f2fe3a7d9c0bf8ea0601dddc748f6b4a9e9ea0bda2"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 523 (20252026) — Metropolitan water districts: proxy vote authorizations.
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Under the Metropolitan Water District Act, the board of a metropolitan water district is required to consist of at least one representative from each member public agency, as prescribed. The act authorizes each member public agency to appoint additional representatives not exceeding one additional representative for each 5% of the assessed valuation of property taxable for district purposes within the entire district that is within the boundaries of that member public agency.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/10/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB523&version=20250AB52399INT)
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2. **04/22/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB523&version=20250AB52398AMD)
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3. **05/05/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB523&version=20250AB52397AMD)
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4. **10/03/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB523&version=20250AB52395CHP)
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5. **AB523** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB523)
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6. **09/05/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB523&version=20250AB52396ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass — **6–1** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass as amended. — **8–1** (pass) · lower
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- 3rd Reading AB523 Irwin By Stern — **35–1** (pass) · upper
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- AB 523 Irwin Assembly Third Reading — **70–4** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Irwin — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-02-10** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2025-02-11** From printer. May be heard in committee March 13.
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- **2025-02-24** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-04-22** 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`
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- **2025-04-23** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-05-01** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (April 30). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
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- **2025-05-05** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-05-06** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-05-12** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 4. Page 1514.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-05-13** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2025-05-21** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-06-18** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (June 18). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-06-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-09-03** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 1. Page 2456.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-09-03** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
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- **2025-09-09** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
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- **2025-10-03** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2025-10-03** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 266, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9d87d345-1a43-45d5-ab4e-7f5caacb7b03`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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