--- type: "Bill" title: "Clear Lake." description: "Existing law establishes in state government the Ventura-Los Angeles Mountain and Coastal Study Commission. Existing law requires the commission to make a detailed study of all factors that may significantly affect or cause irreversible modification of the present and future status of the Ventura-Los Angeles Mountain and Coastal Zone and its relationship with the region, as provided." jurisdiction: "us/states/ca" legislature: "California Legislature" session: "20172018" identifier: "AB 707" citation: "California AB 707 (20172018)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: ["Clear Lake."] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Aguiar-Curry"] version_count: 9 action_count: 29 vote_count: 3 first_action: "2017-02-15" last_action: "2017-10-15" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2c3eeb04-5006-4803-b331-53291ee61f62" source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB707" source_hash: "b4bcc83e9dfb8aa9b5d2cf0073b8ff9eae465be71954e27438c8526044906ec4" 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 707 (20172018) — Clear Lake. Existing law establishes in state government the Ventura-Los Angeles Mountain and Coastal Study Commission. Existing law requires the commission to make a detailed study of all factors that may significantly affect or cause irreversible modification of the present and future status of the Ventura-Los Angeles Mountain and Coastal Zone and its relationship with the region, as provided. ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **02/15/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB707&version=20170AB70799INT) 2. **04/03/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB707&version=20170AB70798AMD) 3. **04/24/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB707&version=20170AB70797AMD) 4. **05/26/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB707&version=20170AB70796AMD) 5. **06/29/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB707&version=20170AB70795AMD) 6. **07/03/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB707&version=20170AB70794AMD) 7. **10/15/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB707&version=20170AB70792CHP) 8. **AB707** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB707) 9. **09/15/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB707&version=20170AB70793ENR) ## Votes - Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper - Special Consent Calendar # AB707 — **40–0** (pass) · upper - AB 707 Aguiar-Curry Special Consent Calendar 1st Day — **79–0** (pass) · lower ## Sponsors - Aguiar-Curry — primary (person) - McGuire — principal coauthor (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2017-02-15** Read first time. To print. `reading-1` - **2017-02-16** From printer. May be heard in committee March 18. - **2017-03-02** Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee` - **2017-04-03** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1` - **2017-04-04** Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee` - **2017-04-20** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 17). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction` - **2017-04-24** Read second time and amended. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2` - **2017-04-25** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee` - **2017-05-10** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee` - **2017-05-26** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 26). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction` - **2017-05-26** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2` - **2017-05-30** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1` - **2017-05-31** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1933.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1` - **2017-06-01** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1` - **2017-06-14** Referred to Com. on N.R. & W. `referral-committee` - **2017-06-29** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction` - **2017-07-03** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction` - **2017-07-11** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee` - **2017-08-21** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee` - **2017-09-01** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (September 1). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage` - **2017-09-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1` - **2017-09-12** Ordered to special consent calendar. - **2017-09-14** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2908.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1` - **2017-09-14** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. - **2017-09-14** Ordered to special consent calendar. - **2017-09-14** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3424.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage` - **2017-09-25** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m. - **2017-10-15** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature` - **2017-10-15** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 842, Statutes of 2017. ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2c3eeb04-5006-4803-b331-53291ee61f62`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).