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Bill	Liability: flood control and water conservation facilities.	Existing law, until January 1, 2013, provides that neither a public agency that operates flood control and water conservation facilities nor its employees shall be liable for injuries caused by the condition or use of unlined flood control channels or adjacent groundwater recharge spreading grounds under prescribed conditions, except as specified, and specifies that nothing in that provision exonerates a public agency or public employee subject to that provision from liability for injury proximately caused by a dangerous condition of public property under specified circumstances.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 1558	California AB 1558 (20112012)	bill	Liability: flood control and water conservation facilities.	enacted	Eng	4	16	4	2012-01-26	2012-07-13	openstates	ocd-bill/1b6404e8-11bf-48dc-8f42-85efeea4b7ff	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1558	8f0d013b9fd33e21a38a124ed588c7ea17cd711dc22bde31fcbe73e27ed97ad4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1558 (20112012) — Liability: flood control and water conservation facilities.

Existing law, until January 1, 2013, provides that neither a public agency that operates flood control and water conservation facilities nor its employees shall be liable for injuries caused by the condition or use of unlined flood control channels or adjacent groundwater recharge spreading grounds under prescribed conditions, except as specified, and specifies that nothing in that provision exonerates a public agency or public employee subject to that provision from liability for injury proximately caused by a dangerous condition of public property under specified circumstances.

Version chain

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

1. 01/26/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 07/13/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. AB1558 (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/05/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent #14 AB1558 Eng By Hernandez — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1558 ENG Consent Calendar Second Day — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 8–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Eng — primary (person)
• Roger Hernández — author (person)
• Smyth — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-01-26 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2012-01-27 From printer. May be heard in committee February 26.
• 2012-02-02 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2012-03-20 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (March 20). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-03-21 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-03-26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 4130.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-03-26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-04-19 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2012-06-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-06-21 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-06-27 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2012-07-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4224.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-07-02 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2012-07-06 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:20 p.m.
• 2012-07-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-07-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 110, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1b6404e8-11bf-48dc-8f42-85efeea4b7ff. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).