---
type: "Bill"
title: "Commercial fishing: crayfish."
description: "Existing law governing the commercial fishing of crayfish prohibits the sale or purchase of crayfish taken from Lake Tahoe or the Lake Tahoe Basin."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 165"
citation: "California AB 165 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Commercial fishing: crayfish."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beth Gaines"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2013-01-23"
last_action: "2013-09-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/483accda-5c34-4397-bebb-156180ac21e5"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB165"
source_hash: "a23afcb217a6ca584b9d2f13a156b77eb969fef47063e313b399132ad8198276"
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 165 (20132014) — Commercial fishing: crayfish.

Existing law governing the commercial fishing of crayfish prohibits the sale or purchase of crayfish taken from Lake Tahoe or the Lake Tahoe Basin.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/23/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB165&version=20130AB16599INT)
2. **06/15/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB165&version=20130AB16598AMD)
3. **07/08/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB165&version=20130AB16597AMD)
4. **09/06/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB165&version=20130AB16595CHP)
5. **AB165** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB165)
6. **08/27/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB165&version=20130AB16596ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 165 GAINES Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 165 GAINES Assembly Third Reading — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB165 Beth Gaines By Gaines — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **6–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Beth Gaines — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-01-23** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2013-01-24** From printer. May be heard in committee February 23.
- **2013-03-11** Referred to Com. on W.,P. & W. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-16** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-05-02** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 1). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-05-06** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-05-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1328.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-05-09** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2013-05-23** Referred to Com. on N.R. & W. `referral-committee`
- **2013-06-14** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 11). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-06-15** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-06-20** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2013-07-03** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 1). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-07-08** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-08-19** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1886.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-08-19** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 21 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2013-08-22** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2647.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2013-08-29** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2013-09-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2013-09-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 226, Statutes of 2013.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/483accda-5c34-4397-bebb-156180ac21e5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).