---
type: "Bill"
title: "Watershed, Clean Beaches, and Water Quality Act."
description: "Watershed, Clean Beaches, and Water Quality Act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20012002"
identifier: "AB 2534"
citation: "California AB 2534 (20012002)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Watershed", "Clean Beaches", "and Water Quality Act."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pavley"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 32
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2002-02-21"
last_action: "2002-09-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3e409e8e-e373-4bd9-95e6-5eb9030dbc96"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2534"
source_hash: "ff96908d4fdf1f10b282582651d0ebfcb553e91433bff63724fe01c8c242c2e2"
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 2534 (20012002) — Watershed, Clean Beaches, and Water Quality Act.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/21/02 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2534&version=20010AB253499INT)
2. **04/22/02 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2534&version=20010AB253498AMD)
3. **05/01/02 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2534&version=20010AB253497AMD)
4. **06/18/02 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2534&version=20010AB253496AMD)
5. **08/06/02 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2534&version=20010AB253495AMD)
6. **08/13/02 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2534&version=20010AB253494AMD)
7. **08/29/02 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2534&version=20010AB253493AMD)
8. **09/20/02 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2534&version=20010AB253491CHP)
9. **AB2534** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2534)
10. **08/31/02 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2534&version=20010AB253492ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Rules. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 2534 Pavley Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB2534 Pavley By Bowen — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 2534 Pavley Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Pavley — primary (person)
- Nakano — author (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2002-09-20** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 727, Statutes of 2002.
- **2002-09-20** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2002-09-17** Enrolled and to the Governor at 11 a.m.
- **2002-08-31** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 72. Noes 6. Page 8705.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2002-08-31** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2002-08-30** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 25. Noes 7. Page 5997.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-08-29** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.). Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2002-08-28** Joint Rules 61(b)(13) and 61(b)(14) suspended.
- **2002-08-21** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2002-08-15** In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
- **2002-08-13** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `reading-1, referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2002-08-08** Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2002-08-08** (Corrected August 7. )
- **2002-08-06** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Rules. `reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee, amendment-passage`
- **2002-08-05** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Rules (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (August 5). `amendment-introduction, referral-committee, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2002-06-18** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on AGR. & WAT. RES. `reading-1, referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2002-06-13** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2002-06-04** Referred to AGR. & WAT. RES. and Standing Committee on Rules. `referral-committee`
- **2002-05-24** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2002-05-23** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 6321.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-05-23** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 24. Noes 0.) (May 22). Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, committee-passage-favorable, reading-1, committee-passage`
- **2002-05-22** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2002-05-08** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2002-05-01** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2002-04-30** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 23). `amendment-introduction, referral-committee, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2002-04-23** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials. `referral-committee`
- **2002-04-22** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2002-04-18** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 15). `amendment-introduction, referral-committee, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2002-04-02** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2002-03-18** Referred to Standing Committee on Natural Resources and Standing Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials. `referral-committee`
- **2002-02-22** From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
- **2002-02-21** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3e409e8e-e373-4bd9-95e6-5eb9030dbc96`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).