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Bill	Indian Valley Watermaster District.	Existing law provides for the establishment of watermaster service areas by the Department of Water Resources for the purposes of ensuring the most practical and economic supervision of the distribution of water. Existing law specifies that upon the submission of a specified petition to a court in which a relevant judicial decree has been entered, the court may appoint a public agency as a watermaster to replace the watermaster appointed by the department.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 1578	California AB 1578 (20112012)	bill	Indian Valley Watermaster District.	enacted	Logue	7	28	7	2012-02-02	2012-09-17	openstates	ocd-bill/e562a93d-125b-4e1a-b524-e8e6df317690	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1578	22f5d3b1e1def74761881208818617413610558edf8815168d28fc8d64649d8f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1578 (20112012) — Indian Valley Watermaster District.

Existing law provides for the establishment of watermaster service areas by the Department of Water Resources for the purposes of ensuring the most practical and economic supervision of the distribution of water. Existing law specifies that upon the submission of a specified petition to a court in which a relevant judicial decree has been entered, the court may appoint a public agency as a watermaster to replace the watermaster appointed by the department.

Version chain

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

1. 02/02/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/29/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/17/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/13/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/17/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1578 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/06/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but re-refer to the Committee on Governance and Finance Recommend Consent. — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent #16 — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1578 LOGUE Consent Calendar Second Day — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1578 LOGUE Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Logue — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-02 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2012-02-03 From printer. May be heard in committee March 4.
• 2012-02-17 Referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2012-03-15 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2012-03-29 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-04-09 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2012-04-11 In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2012-04-17 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-04-18 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2012-04-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-09 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 9). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-10 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-17 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 4888.) 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 Coms. on N.R. & W. and GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2012-06-12 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on GOV. & F. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 12). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-06-13 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-06-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 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
• 2012-08-15 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2012-08-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4782.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-24 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-08-27 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6357.)
• 2012-08-28 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6437.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5:10 p.m.
• 2012-09-17 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-17 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 345, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e562a93d-125b-4e1a-b524-e8e6df317690. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).