---
type: "Bill"
title: "Planning and land use: Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley."
description: "Existing law prohibits a city or county within the Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley from approving a discretionary permit or other discretionary entitlement, or a ministerial permit that would result in the construction of a new residence, for a project that is located within a flood hazard zone, unless the city or county finds, based on substantial evidence in the record, that certain criteria are met."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 747"
citation: "California AB 747 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Planning and land use: Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eggman"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2015-02-25"
last_action: "2015-08-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5a1ee9ea-b65b-45aa-beff-554a8a2619a1"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB747"
source_hash: "a0ba0d8d9ca337b696c7b4014f4466c89ba3b4b1c67aab5c0d22bdd5fdbf3ef4"
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 747 (20152016) — Planning and land use: Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley.

Existing law prohibits a city or county within the Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley from approving a discretionary permit or other discretionary entitlement, or a ministerial permit that would result in the construction of a new residence, for a project that is located within a flood hazard zone, unless the city or county finds, based on substantial evidence in the record, that certain criteria are met.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/25/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB747&version=20150AB74799INT)
2. **08/10/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB747&version=20150AB74797CHP)
3. **AB747** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB747)
4. **07/21/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB747&version=20150AB74798ENR)

## Votes

- Consent Calendar 2nd — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 747 EGGMAN Assembly Third Reading — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Governance and Finance] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Eggman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-02-25** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2015-02-26** From printer. May be heard in committee March 28.
- **2015-03-12** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-16** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 15). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-04-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-04-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1216.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-30** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2015-05-14** Referred to Coms. on N.R. & W. and GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2015-06-03** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2015-06-24** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on GOV. & F. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 23). Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-07-08** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 8). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-07-09** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-07-16** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1986.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-07-16** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2015-08-03** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2015-08-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2015-08-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 152, Statutes of 2015.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5a1ee9ea-b65b-45aa-beff-554a8a2619a1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).