---
type: "Bill"
title: "Land use."
description: "Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources to develop preliminary maps for the 100- and 200-year flood plains protected by project levees, as specified, and to provide the preliminary maps to cities and counties within the Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 1965"
citation: "California AB 1965 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Land use."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pan"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 34
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2012-02-23"
last_action: "2012-09-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2071d6b9-e697-4dfd-8da8-fed964753ef9"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1965"
source_hash: "2030075ce4c5acec00f161ea3bdebe2bd65bd8f9c43ab6b7856f2e2ee88b7679"
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 1965 (20112012) — Land use.

Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources to develop preliminary maps for the 100- and 200-year flood plains protected by project levees, as specified, and to provide the preliminary maps to cities and counties within the Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/23/12 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1965&version=20110AB196599INT)
2. **04/09/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1965&version=20110AB196598AMD)
3. **04/24/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1965&version=20110AB196597AMD)
4. **08/06/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1965&version=20110AB196596AMD)
5. **08/29/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1965&version=20110AB196595AMD)
6. **09/25/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1965&version=20110AB196593CHP)
7. **AB1965** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1965)
8. **09/11/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1965&version=20110AB196594ENR)

## Votes

- amendments be concurred in. — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **6–2** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **11–5** (pass) · lower
- AB 1965 PAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1965 PAN Assembly Third Reading — **48–27** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **6–2** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Supp 1 AB1965 Pan By Wolk — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Pan — primary (person)
- Wolk — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2012-02-23** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2012-02-24** From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
- **2012-03-08** Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. `referral-committee`
- **2012-03-27** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2012-04-09** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-04-09** Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. `referral-committee`
- **2012-04-23** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (April 17). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-04-24** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-04-25** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2012-05-09** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 5.) (May 9). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-05-10** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-05-17** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 48. Noes 27. Page 4879.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-05-17** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2012-05-24** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2012-06-28** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-08-06** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2012-08-06** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2012-08-07** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-08-28** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2012-08-29** Senate Rule 29.3(b) suspended. (Ayes 22. Noes 0. Page 4946.)
- **2012-08-29** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2012-08-31** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2012-08-31** Ordered to third reading.
- **2012-08-31** (Ayes 21. Noes 12. Page 5050.)
- **2012-08-31** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 5059.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-08-31** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2012-08-31** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. `referral-committee`
- **2012-08-31** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 6762.)
- **2012-08-31** From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (August 31). `committee-passage`
- **2012-08-31** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 6772.)
- **2012-08-31** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 6776.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2012-09-13** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12:15 p.m.
- **2012-09-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2012-09-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 554, Statutes of 2012.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2071d6b9-e697-4dfd-8da8-fed964753ef9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).