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Bill	Energy: renewable resources: endangered species: environmental impact reports.	(1) The California Endangered Species Act (CESA) requires the Fish and Game Commission to establish a list of endangered species and a list of threatened species, and requires the Department of Fish and Game to recommend, and the commission to adopt, criteria for determining if a species is endangered or threatened. CESA authorizes the department to authorize the take of threatened species, endangered species, or candidate species by permit if certain requirements are met. CESA authorizes the department, in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) and, to the extent practicable, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the United States Bureau of Land Management, to design and implement actions to protect, restore, or enhance the habitat of plants and wildlife that can be used to fully mitigate the impacts of the take of endangered, threatened, or candidate species (mitigation actions) resulting from certain solar thermal and photovoltaic powerplants in the planning area of the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012 Special Session 1	AB 13	California AB 13 (20112012 Special Session 1)	bill appropriation	Energy: renewable resources: endangered species: environmental impact reports.	enacted	V. Manuel Pérez	8	29	8	2011-02-07	2011-08-29	openstates	ocd-bill/ee045a66-b154-47a9-9cb1-d8752251a6c9	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120121AB13	0e5e6145f5b52385e966b14f636dd8814c1658235dda3c9d14cbb97034149fa4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 13 (20112012 Special Session 1) — Energy: renewable resources: endangered species: environmental impact reports.

(1) The California Endangered Species Act (CESA) requires the Fish and Game Commission to establish a list of endangered species and a list of threatened species, and requires the Department of Fish and Game to recommend, and the commission to adopt, criteria for determining if a species is endangered or threatened. CESA authorizes the department to authorize the take of threatened species, endangered species, or candidate species by permit if certain requirements are met. CESA authorizes the department, in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) and, to the extent practicable, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the United States Bureau of Land Management, to design and implement actions to protect, restore, or enhance the habitat of plants and wildlife that can be used to fully mitigate the impacts of the take of endangered, threatened, or candidate species (mitigation actions) resulting from certain solar thermal and photovoltaic powerplants in the planning area of the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan.

Version chain

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

1. 02/07/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/01/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/26/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/01/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/07/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/29/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB13 (committee substitute) — source
8. 07/15/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 13 PÉREZ, V.M. Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 57–18 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 8–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 13 PÉREZ, V.M. Assembly Third Reading — 58–15 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB13 V. Manuel Pérez By Rubio — 29–11 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 5–3 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 11–5 (pass) · lower
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 6–3 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• V. Manuel Pérez — primary (person)
• Bradford — author (person)
• John A. Pérez — coauthor (person)
• Rubio — principal coauthor (person)
• Skinner — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-07 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2011-02-08 From printer.
• 2011-02-22 Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2011-02-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (February 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-03-01 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-03-02 Measure version as amended on March 1 corrected. amendment-passage
• 2011-03-02 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2011-03-02 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 5.) (March 2). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-03-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-03-07 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 58. Noes 15. Page 91.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-03-07 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2011-03-21 Referred to Com. on N.R. & W. referral-committee
• 2011-04-25 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 3.) (April 12). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-04-26 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-05-23 In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2011-05-26 In committee: Held under submission.
• 2011-07-01 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
• 2011-07-06 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (July 6). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-07-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-07-07 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-07-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-07-14 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 11. Page 190.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-07-14 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 12 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2011-07-14 Assembly Rule 77 suspended.
• 2011-07-14 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 48. Noes 25. Page 250.)
• 2011-07-14 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 57. Noes 18. Page 251.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-08-17 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12:10 p.m.
• 2011-08-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-08-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 10, Statutes of 2011-12 First Extraordinary Session.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ee045a66-b154-47a9-9cb1-d8752251a6c9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).