---
type: "Bill"
title: "Tulelake Irrigation District."
description: "The Irrigation District Law provides for the formation of irrigation districts with prescribed powers. The district law generally requires a director on the board of an irrigation district to be a voter, landowner, and resident in the division of the district that the director represents."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 1816"
citation: "California AB 1816 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Tulelake Irrigation District."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dahle"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 23
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2016-02-08"
last_action: "2016-09-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/43cab039-063a-438e-b0ca-220d4614d013"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1816"
source_hash: "a091ec142944ef0bd53fc65ed4c12e8fe29c5d362cdda2a6a2e11231dbada1d8"
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 1816 (20152016) — Tulelake Irrigation District.

The Irrigation District Law provides for the formation of irrigation districts with prescribed powers. The district law generally requires a director on the board of an irrigation district to be a voter, landowner, and resident in the division of the district that the director represents.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/08/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1816&version=20150AB181699INT)
2. **03/31/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1816&version=20150AB181698AMD)
3. **04/25/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1816&version=20150AB181697AMD)
4. **05/24/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1816&version=20150AB181696AMD)
5. **09/16/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1816&version=20150AB181694CHP)
6. **AB1816** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1816)
7. **08/23/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1816&version=20150AB181695ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1816 DAHLE Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1816 Dahle By Gaines — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1816 DAHLE Assembly Third Reading — **77–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dahle — primary (person)
- Gaines — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-02-08** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2016-02-09** From printer. May be heard in committee March 10.
- **2016-02-25** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-31** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-04-04** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2016-04-21** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 20). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-04-25** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-04-26** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2016-05-02** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2016-05-02** Ordered to second reading.
- **2016-05-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-05-05** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 4681.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-05-05** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2016-05-12** Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2016-05-24** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-06-15** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 15). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-06-16** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-08-15** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4951.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-16** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 18 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2016-08-22** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6030.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2016-08-26** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2016-09-16** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-09-16** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 377, Statutes of 2016.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/43cab039-063a-438e-b0ca-220d4614d013`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).