---
type: "Bill"
title: "Elsinore Water District."
description: "Elsinore Water District."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20072008"
identifier: "AB 1856"
citation: "California AB 1856 (20072008)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elsinore Water District."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jeffries"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2008-01-30"
last_action: "2008-06-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/234efe6c-9c7d-4888-8af9-71008dc78604"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB1856"
source_hash: "d6b4ca869308d671f43aa56753ffde3da4ba86ec401cd6ad6739f09aaeba84a2"
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 1856 (20072008) — Elsinore Water District.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/30/08 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB1856&version=20070AB185699INT)
2. **03/24/08 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB1856&version=20070AB185698AMD)
3. **03/25/08 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB1856&version=20070AB185697AMD)
4. **06/02/08 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB1856&version=20070AB185695CHP)
5. **AB1856** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB1856)
6. **05/15/08 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB1856&version=20070AB185696ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1856 JEFFRIES Third Reading Urgency — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar 2nd AB1856 Jeffries — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jeffries — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2008-01-30** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2008-01-31** From printer. May be heard in committee March 1.
- **2008-02-21** Referred to Standing Committee on Local Government. `referral-committee`
- **2008-03-24** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Local Government Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, referral-committee`
- **2008-03-25** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Local Government. `referral-committee`
- **2008-03-25** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Local Government Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, referral-committee`
- **2008-03-28** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Local Government. `referral-committee`
- **2008-04-02** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 2). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2008-04-03** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2008-04-14** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 4620.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2008-04-14** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2008-04-24** Referred to Standing Committee on Local Government. `referral-committee`
- **2008-05-07** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2008-05-08** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2008-05-15** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 3800.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2008-05-15** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2008-05-19** Enrolled and to the Governor at 11 a.m.
- **2008-06-02** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2008-06-02** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 20, Statutes of 2008.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/234efe6c-9c7d-4888-8af9-71008dc78604`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).