CA AB 1945

enrolled

Municipal utility districts: prepay option: termination of service.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Quick answers

Did CA AB 1945 pass?

Not yet law. CA AB 1945 has passed both chambers and is enrolled, awaiting executive action (signature or veto) as of 2026-08-28. Latest recorded action (2026-09-08): Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.

What is CA AB 1945 about?

The Municipal Utility District Act establishes the formation of a municipal utility district for the provision of light, heat, water, or power within the district's jurisdiction. The act prohibits a district furnishing light, heat, water, or power from terminating residential service on account of nonpayment of a delinquent account unless the district provides a notice of delinquency and an opportunity to cure, as provided. This bill would authorize districts to offer customers the option of electronically receiving the required notice of delinquency, as specified. The bill would authorize districts furnishing service to fewer than 100,000 customers to offer residential customers a prepay option, as defined, for electrical service if certain conditions are met, including, among other things, that the district provides the customer with information on returning to standard billing and issues automated low-balance alerts to the customer before suspending the customer's electrical service, as provided. The bill would specify that the requirement to provide a notice of delinquency does not apply to customers participating in the prepay option.

Who sponsors CA AB 1945?

Hadwick is the primary sponsor of CA AB 1945, joined by 2 cosponsors.

Description

Introduced: 2026-03-16
Latest action: 2026-09-08 — Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

Subjects

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

2026-02-13
Read first time. To print.
reading-1
2026-02-14
From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
2026-03-02
Referred to Com. on L. GOV.
referral-committee
2026-03-16
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,committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2,referral-committee
2026-03-17
Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
referral-committee
2026-04-16
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on U. & E. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 15). Re-referred to Com. on U. & E.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2026-04-16
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on U. & E. Read second time and amended.
amendment-introduction,amendment-passage,committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2,referral-committee
2026-04-20
Re-referred to Com. on U. & E.
referral-committee
2026-04-23
From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 22).
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2026-04-27
Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
reading-1,reading-2
2026-05-04
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 4918.)
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2026-05-05
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
reading-1,referral-committee
2026-05-13
Referred to Com. on L. GOV.
referral-committee
2026-06-24
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 23).
amendment-introduction,amendment-passage,committee-passage
2026-06-25
Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading.
amendment-passage,reading-1,reading-2,reading-3
2026-08-21
Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
amendment-passage,reading-1,reading-2,reading-3
2026-08-24
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
reading-1,reading-2,reading-3
2026-08-25
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0.).
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2026-08-25
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2026-08-28
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0.).
amendment-passage,committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2026-09-08
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
executive-receipt

Versions

02/13/26 - Introduced — 2026-02-13Compare
03/16/26 - Amended Assembly — 2026-03-16Compare
04/16/26 - Amended Assembly — 2026-04-16Compare
06/25/26 - Amended Senate — 2026-06-25Compare
08/21/26 - Amended Senate — 2026-08-21Compare
09/02/26 - Enrolled — 2026-09-02Compare
(document, no version)Compare
AB1945Compare

Documents

application/pdf
application/pdf
application/pdf
application/pdf
text/html
application/pdf(no extracted text yet)
application/pdf(no extracted text yet)
application/pdf(no extracted text yet)
application/pdf(no extracted text yet)
application/pdf(no extracted text yet)
application/pdf(no extracted text yet)
application/pdf
application/pdf(no extracted text yet)

Votes

Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Utilities and Energy]
2026-04-15 · pass · 10-0
Member-level votes (10)
- Wilson: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Johnson: yes
- Ward: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Ta: yes
Do pass. To Consent Calendar.
2026-04-22 · pass · 18-0
Member-level votes (18)
- Schultz: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Davies: yes
- Hart: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Ta: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Chen: yes
- Papan: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Harabedian: yes
AB 1945 Hadwick Consent Calendar Second Day
2026-05-04 · pass · 73-0
Member-level votes (80)
- Jackson: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Johnson: yes
- Krell: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Davies: yes
- Haney: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Ward: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Stefani: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Lee: yes
- Solache: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Soria: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Berman: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Lackey: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Patel: yes
- Bains: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Ta: yes
- Fong: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Papan: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Addis: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Hart: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Arambula: other
- Chen: other
- Wallis: other
- Bennett: other
- Flora: other
- Caloza: other
- Wilson: other
Do pass as amended
2026-06-23 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Choi: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Laird: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Seyarto: yes

Related bills

No related bills recorded for this bill.

Official source

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1945

Attribution

Data from openstates_api_sync, retrieved 2026-09-10T05:58:39.309053Z

Inspect retained evidence for changes recorded after evidence tracking began:

Source and document changes Status and relationship changes

Use this data

Every field on this page is available from the free public API — no key or licence required. Fetch this bill as JSON: GET /api/v1/bills?jurisdiction=CA&identifier=AB 1945. See the API docs or the MCP server for AI assistants.

Known limitations

Sponsor party and chamber affiliation are not yet captured by this API.
Committee referrals are not yet captured.
Some documents have no extracted text yet, so version comparison may be limited.

See the methodology page for data sources and limitations.