CA AB 428

enacted

Joint powers agreements: water corporations.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Description

Existing law, the Joint Exercise of Powers Act, authorizes 2 or more public agencies, if authorized by their governing bodies, by agreement to jointly exercise any power common to the contracting parties. Existing law authorizes 2 or more local public entities, or a mutual water company, as defined, and a public agency, to provide insurance, as specified, by a joint powers agreement. Existing law authorizes a mutual water company and a public agency to enter into a joint powers agreement for the purposes of risk pooling, as specified. Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including water corporations. This bill would authorize a water corporation, as defined, a mutual water company, and one or more public agencies to provide insurance, as specified, by a joint powers agreement. The bill would also authorize a water corporation, a mutual water company, and one or more public agencies to enter into a joint powers agreement for the purposes of risk pooling, as specified. The bill would prohibit the Public Utilities Commission from allowing a water corporation to join a joint powers agency for insurance coverage if there are no greater benefits to the customers of the water corporation than are provided by the water corporation's current insurance policy. The bill would require the joint powers agency to be 100% reinsured with no joint and several liability, no assessments, and no financial liability attributable to the participating members, as provided. If a water corporation enters into a joint powers agreement for the purposes of risk pooling, the bill would require the water corporation to submit an annual information filing to the Public Utilities Commission and the joint powers agency, as specified.

Introduced: 2025-03-28
Status date: —
Latest action: 2025-10-01 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 151, Statutes of 2025.
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

Subjects

Committees

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Action timeline

2025-02-05
Read first time. To print.
reading-1
2025-02-06
From printer. May be heard in committee March 8.
2025-02-18
Referred to Coms. on INS. and L. GOV.
referral-committee
2025-03-28
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on INS. Read second time and amended.
amendment-introduction,amendment-passage,committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2,referral-committee
2025-04-01
Re-referred to Com. on INS.
referral-committee
2025-04-02
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2025-04-10
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2025-04-23
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 23).
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2025-04-24
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-05-05
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1424.)
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2025-05-06
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
reading-1,referral-committee
2025-05-14
Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and E., U & C.
referral-committee
2025-06-18
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E., U & C. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on E., U & C.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2025-07-08
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (July 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2025-08-19
From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.
committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2
2025-08-20
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
reading-1,reading-2,reading-3
2025-09-03
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 1. Page 2461.).
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2025-09-03
In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.
committee-passage
2025-09-09
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
executive-receipt
2025-10-01
Approved by the Governor.
executive-signature
2025-10-01
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 151, Statutes of 2025.
became-law

Versions

02/05/25 - Introduced — 2025-02-05Compare
03/28/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-03-28Compare
09/05/25 - Enrolled — 2025-09-05Compare
10/01/25 - Chaptered — 2025-10-01Compare
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Documents

Votes

Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government]
2025-04-02 · pass · 17-0
Member-level votes (17)
- Addis: yes
- Berman: yes
- Krell: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Chen: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Ellis: yes
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-04-09 · pass · 10-0
Member-level votes (10)
- Stefani: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Ward: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Ta: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Ransom: yes
Do pass.
2025-04-23 · pass · 15-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Pacheco: yes
- Ta: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Hart: yes
- Solache: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Fong: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Dixon: yes
AB 428 Blanca Rubio Assembly Third Reading
2025-05-05 · pass · 76-0
Member-level votes (79)
- Rivas: yes
- Haney: yes
- Papan: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Patel: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Fong: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Krell: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Soria: yes
- Ta: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Addis: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Lee: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Solache: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Chen: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Hart: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Davies: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Ward: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Berman: yes
- Flora: yes
- Ellis: other
- Bains: other
- Garcia: other
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Energy, Utilities and Communications]
2025-06-18 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Cabaldon: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Choi: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Laird: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Durazo: yes
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-07-07 · pass · 16-0
Member-level votes (17)
- Allen: yes
- Limón: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Stern: yes
- Grove: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Becker: yes
- Dahle: other
3rd Reading AB428 Blanca Rubio By McNerney
2025-09-03 · pass · 38-1
Member-level votes (40)
- Becker: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Stern: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Limón: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Allen: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Padilla: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Choi: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Grayson: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Niello: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Laird: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Jones: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: yes
- Grove: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Reyes: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Wahab: no
- Blakespear: other

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