---
type: "Bill"
title: "Safe Drinking Water, Clean Water, Watershed Protection, and Flood Protection Act; water resources."
description: "Safe Drinking Water, Clean Water, Watershed Protection, and Flood Protection Act; water resources."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 1584"
citation: "California AB 1584 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Safe Drinking Water", "Clean Water", "Watershed Protection", "and Flood Protection Act; water resources."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Machado"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 30
vote_count: 8
first_action: "1999-02-26"
last_action: "1999-10-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0706dfb3-dd1a-4f0f-9f1c-0bb9d0ae8b62"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1584"
source_hash: "af46e1f42a41f281fbaa9ce191f17468c117fc5f758ba026fa9c2664ac5db9c8"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 1584 (19992000) — Safe Drinking Water, Clean Water, Watershed Protection, and Flood Protection Act; water resources.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/26/99 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1584&version=19990AB158499INT)
2. **04/27/99 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1584&version=19990AB158498AMD)
3. **07/12/99 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1584&version=19990AB158497AMD)
4. **08/26/99 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1584&version=19990AB158496AMD)
5. **09/03/99 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1584&version=19990AB158495AMD)
6. **09/09/99 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1584&version=19990AB158494AMD)
7. **10/10/99 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1584&version=19990AB158492CHP)
8. **AB1584** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1584)
9. **09/10/99 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1584&version=19990AB158493ENR)

## Votes

- Assembly 3rd Reading AB1584 Florez By Chesbro Reconsider — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB1584 Florez By Chesbro — **fail** (fail) · upper
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB1584 Machado By Costa Urgency Clause — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 1584 FLOREZ THIRD READING — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · legislature
- AB 1584 MACHADO SPECIAL ORDER URGENCY ADDED — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Machado — primary (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Cardoza — principal coauthor (person)
- Costa — author (person)
- Florez — principal coauthor (person)
- Kuehl — coauthor (person)
- Ortiz — coauthor (person)
- Strom-Martin — coauthor (person)
- Thomson — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **1999-10-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 725, Statutes of 1999.
- **1999-10-07** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **1999-09-23** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
- **1999-09-10** Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 68. Noes 11. Page 4468.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **1999-09-10** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Made Special Order for Friday, September 10, at 10 a.m.
- **1999-09-09** Read third time. Amended. Senate Rule 29.3 suspended. Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 6. Page 3213.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-09-07** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-09-03** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **1999-08-31** Read third time, passage refused in Senate. (Ayes 18. Noes 15. Page 2771.) Motion to reconsider made by Senator Chesbro. Reconsideration granted. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2771.) `reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-08-30** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-08-26** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **1999-08-24** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-08-23** From inactive file. To second reading.
- **1999-08-19** To inactive file on motion of Senator Chesbro.
- **1999-08-17** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-08-16** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **1999-07-12** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **1999-07-08** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 7. Noes 4.). `committee-passage, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **1999-06-02** Referred to Standing Committee on Governmental Organization. `referral-committee`
- **1999-05-26** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **1999-05-25** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 48. Noes 26. Page 1915.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-05-24** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-05-20** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 7.) (May 19). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **1999-04-29** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **1999-04-27** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-04-26** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 5. Noes 3.) (April 20). `committee-passage, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **1999-03-25** Referred to Com. on C.P.,G.E. & E.D. `referral-committee`
- **1999-03-01** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **1999-02-28** From printer. May be heard in committee March 30.
- **1999-02-26** Introduced. To print. `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0706dfb3-dd1a-4f0f-9f1c-0bb9d0ae8b62`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).