---
type: "Bill"
title: "South Bay Irrigation District: directors."
description: "Existing law, the Irrigation District Law, with certain exceptions, requires a director of the board of an irrigation district to be a voter and a landowner in the district and a resident of the division that he or she represents, at the time of his or her nomination or appointment and during his or her entire term. The district law requires a director elected at a formation election to be a resident, landowner, and voter in the proposed district at the time of his or her nomination and a resident of the division that he or she represents during his or her entire term."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 348"
citation: "California AB 348 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["South Bay Irrigation District: directors."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Salas"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2009-02-19"
last_action: "2009-08-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f8aad730-e8ee-4d60-94e6-061f5f08d1a4"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB348"
source_hash: "045a0a5232613c2aaf026c82f7016af6cef0f6afd07a40906532c4edf7c6c800"
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 348 (20092010) — South Bay Irrigation District: directors.

Existing law, the Irrigation District Law, with certain exceptions, requires a director of the board of an irrigation district to be a voter and a landowner in the district and a resident of the division that he or she represents, at the time of his or her nomination or appointment and during his or her entire term. The district law requires a director elected at a formation election to be a resident, landowner, and voter in the proposed district at the time of his or her nomination and a resident of the division that he or she represents during his or her entire term.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/19/09 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB348&version=20090AB34899INT)
2. **08/06/09 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB348&version=20090AB34897CHP)
3. **AB348** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB348)
4. **06/26/09 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB348&version=20090AB34898ENR)

## Votes

- AB 348 SALAS Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd AB348 Salas — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Elections and Redistricting to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Salas — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-02-19** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2009-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
- **2009-03-09** Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-16** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on E. & R. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 15). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-05-05** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 5). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-05-06** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-05-11** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1369.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-05-11** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2009-05-21** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2009-06-01** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2009-06-17** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (June 17). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-06-18** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-06-24** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1427.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-06-24** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2009-06-30** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2009-07-01** Withdrawn from Governor.
- **2009-07-01** Ordered returned to enrollment.
- **2009-07-30** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
- **2009-08-05** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2009-08-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 99, Statutes of 2009.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f8aad730-e8ee-4d60-94e6-061f5f08d1a4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).