---
type: "Bill"
title: "Municipal water district: board of directors."
description: "The Municipal Water District Law of 1911 provides for the formation of a municipal water district and the election of a board of directors of a municipal water district. Existing law requires directors, except directors elected at the district formation election, to take office on the first Monday after January 1 succeeding their election."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 72"
citation: "California AB 72 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Municipal water district: board of directors."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Holden"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 17
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2013-01-10"
last_action: "2013-06-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8e1e7c4f-2e4c-4f1a-82ae-36a8a2d588b9"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB72"
source_hash: "2d95e4678f8532bcd1be1601da46350c5a3cbfbdc49e17edd20d728cb3b01ca8"
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 72 (20132014) — Municipal water district: board of directors.

The Municipal Water District Law of 1911 provides for the formation of a municipal water district and the election of a board of directors of a municipal water district. Existing law requires directors, except directors elected at the district formation election, to take office on the first Monday after January 1 succeeding their election.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/10/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB72&version=20130AB7299INT)
2. **03/19/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB72&version=20130AB7298AMD)
3. **06/17/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB72&version=20130AB7296CHP)
4. **AB72** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB72)
5. **05/31/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB72&version=20130AB7297ENR)

## Votes

- Consent Calendar 2nd — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 72 HOLDEN Assembly Third Reading — **75–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Holden — primary (person)
- Hagman — coauthor (person)
- Huff — coauthor (person)
- Ian Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Liu — coauthor (person)
- Roger Hernández — author (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-01-10** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2013-01-11** From printer. May be heard in committee February 10.
- **2013-01-18** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2013-03-19** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-03-20** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-04** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 3). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-04-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-04-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 879.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-04-11** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2013-04-25** Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2013-05-16** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (May 15). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-05-20** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-05-24** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 1045.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-05-24** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2013-06-05** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:35 p.m.
- **2013-06-17** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2013-06-17** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 8, Statutes of 2013.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8e1e7c4f-2e4c-4f1a-82ae-36a8a2d588b9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).