---
type: "Bill"
title: "Water supply: building permits."
description: "Existing law prohibits a city, including a charter city, or a county from issuing a building permit for the construction of a new residential development where a source of the water supply is water transported by a water hauler, bottled water, a water-vending machine, or a retail water facility. Under existing law, this prohibition on the issuance of a building permit does not apply to a residence that will be rebuilt because of a natural disaster."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 367"
citation: "California AB 367 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Water supply: building permits."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Obernolte"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-02-08"
last_action: "2017-10-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5ab027c3-6cbc-4d38-93fe-3cb8c9477341"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB367"
source_hash: "4e1f0bb7910a34fed89dc3596d993e2b4d4aaeed81547d6cffb567a531a871fe"
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 367 (20172018) — Water supply: building permits.

Existing law prohibits a city, including a charter city, or a county from issuing a building permit for the construction of a new residential development where a source of the water supply is water transported by a water hauler, bottled water, a water-vending machine, or a retail water facility. Under existing law, this prohibition on the issuance of a building permit does not apply to a residence that will be rebuilt because of a natural disaster.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/08/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB367&version=20170AB36799INT)
2. **10/09/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB367&version=20170AB36797CHP)
3. **AB367** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB367)
4. **09/05/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB367&version=20170AB36798ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB367 Obernolte By Fuller — **36–1** (pass) · upper
- AB 367 OBERNOLTE Assembly Third Reading — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **5–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Obernolte — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-08** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2017-02-09** From printer. May be heard in committee March 11.
- **2017-02-21** Referred to Com. on W.,P., & W. `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-21** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (March 21). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-03-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-04-06** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 960.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-04-17** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2017-05-10** Referred to Com. on EQ. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-13** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2017-07-06** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (July 5). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-07-10** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-08-31** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 1. Page 2297.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-08-31** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2017-09-07** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2017-10-09** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-10-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 612, Statutes of 2017.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5ab027c3-6cbc-4d38-93fe-3cb8c9477341`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).