Nora Campos
- Democratic
Author
(1) Existing law requires fees charged by a local agency for specified purposes to not exceed the estimated reasonable cost of providing the service for which the fee is charged, unless a question regarding the amount of the fee charged in excess of this cost is submitted to, and approved by, 23 of the electors. The Planning and Zoning law requires a city or county to administratively approve applications to install solar energy systems, as defined, through the issuance of a building permit or similar nondiscretionary permit. This bill would prohibit a city, county, or city and county from basing the calculation of the fee charged for a solar energy system on the valuation of the solar energy system, or any other factor not directly associated with the cost to issue the permit, or from basing the calculation of the fee on the valuation of the property or the improvement, materials, or labor costs associated with the improvement. The bill would also require the city, county, or city and county to separately identify each fee assessed on the applicant for the installation of a solar energy system on the invoice provided to the applicant. (2) The bill would also express a legislative finding and declaration that oversight of permit fees for renewable energy systems is an issue of statewide concern and not a municipal affair and that, therefore, all cities, including charter cities, would be subject to the provisions of the bill.
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 538, Statutes of 2012.
Approved by the Governor.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5903.).
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 11 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4436.).
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 13).
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 4776.)
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (May 2).
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended.
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended.
Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and NAT. RES.
From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
Read first time. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
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| AB1801 | HTML |
| 02/21/12 - Introduced | |
| 04/09/12 - Amended Assembly | |
| 04/23/12 - Amended Assembly | |
| 06/18/12 - Amended Senate | |
| 08/06/12 - Amended Senate | |
| 08/16/12 - Enrolled | |
| 09/25/12 - Chaptered |
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