CA AB 2180

introduced

Local government: Proposition 218 Omnibus Implementation Act: proportional cost of service.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Description

The California Constitution specifies various requirements with respect to the levying of assessments and property-related fees and charges by a local agency. As part of those requirements, the California Constitution mandates that such fees or charges that are extended, imposed, or increased satisfy certain requirements, including, but not limited to, that the amount of the fee or charge imposed upon any parcel or person as an incident of property ownership not exceed the proportional cost of the service attributable to the parcel. Existing law, known as the Proposition 218 Omnibus Implementation Act (act) , prescribes specific procedures and parameters for local jurisdictions to comply with these requirements and, among other things, authorizes an agency providing water, wastewater, sewer, or refuse collection services to adopt a schedule of fees or charges authorizing automatic adjustments that pass through increases in wholesale charges for water, sewage treatment, or wastewater treatment or adjustments for inflation under certain circumstances. This bill would authorize a local government to demonstrate the proportional cost of the service attributable to the parcel by any method that reasonably allocates the ascertainable cost of providing service to all parcels, if substantiated as provided. The bill would, however, provide that for water or sewer service fee or charge impositions, a local government is not required to provide an exact measure of the cost of the service at each parcel and may instead impose uniform or tiered rates to parcel or customer classes that are defined based on common characteristics indicative of likely water or sewer use. The bill would provide that the proportional cost of service within each tier of water service may be substantiated by using any reasonable basis for allocating costs attributed to the tier, as described, and would provide a local government discretion to determine the costs allocated to each tier as long as the rate for each tier does not exceed the proportional cost of service reasonably allocated to parcels subject to that tier. The bill would specify that its provisions do not apply to fees for water connections or sewer connections, or capacity charges, as specified.

Introduced: 2026-03-11
Status date: —
Latest action: 2026-06-11 — Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

Subjects

Committees

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Action timeline

2026-02-19
Read first time. To print.
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2026-02-20
From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
2026-03-02
Referred to Com. on L. GOV.
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2026-03-11
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended.
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2026-03-12
Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
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2026-03-25
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (March 25).
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2026-03-26
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2026-04-09
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 46. Noes 18. Page 4555.)
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2026-04-09
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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2026-05-06
Referred to Com. on L. GOV.
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2026-05-22
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
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2026-06-10
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 10).
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2026-06-11
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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Versions

02/19/26 - Introduced — 2026-02-19Compare
03/11/26 - Amended Assembly — 2026-03-11Compare
05/22/26 - Amended Senate — 2026-05-22Compare
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Documents

Votes

Do pass.
2026-03-25 · pass · 7-2
Member-level votes (10)
- Pacheco: yes
- Ward: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Johnson: no
- Ta: no
- Ramos: other
AB 2180 Ward Assembly Third Reading
2026-04-09 · pass · 46-18
Member-level votes (80)
- Fong: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Hart: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Bains: yes
- Lee: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Berman: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Solache: yes
- Haney: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Krell: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Ward: yes
- Alanis: no
- Davies: no
- Dixon: no
- Tangipa: no
- Lackey: no
- Ellis: no
- Johnson: no
- Ta: no
- Chen: no
- Gallagher: no
- Sanchez: no
- Castillo: no
- Valencia: no
- DeMaio: no
- Macedo: no
- Patterson: no
- Hoover: no
- Hadwick: no
- Bryan: other
- Michelle Rodriguez: other
- Ramos: other
- Soria: other
- Patel: other
- Papan: other
- Wallis: other
- Ávila Farías: other
- Flora: other
- Bauer-Kahan: other
- Jeff Gonzalez: other
- Ortega: other
- Addis: other
- Celeste Rodriguez: other
- Arambula: other
- Gipson: other
Do pass
2026-06-10 · pass · 5-2
Member-level votes (7)
- Arreguín: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Laird: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Choi: no
- Seyarto: no

Related bills

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