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Bill	Local government: pipeline projects: approval.	Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including gas corporations, as defined. The Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 2011 designates the commission as the state authority responsible for regulating and enforcing intrastate gas pipeline transportation and pipeline facilities pursuant to federal law.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 2559	California AB 2559 (20112012)	bill	Local government: pipeline projects: approval.	enacted	Buchanan	9	31	8	2012-02-24	2012-09-23	openstates	ocd-bill/52128267-7307-4632-9a24-bad5ddc4fba9	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2559	933fd093a01d04eeec37ca1e2d07ef940bbe0ffb6768abdc439982274ac6bcde	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2559 (20112012) — Local government: pipeline projects: approval.

Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including gas corporations, as defined. The Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 2011 designates the commission as the state authority responsible for regulating and enforcing intrastate gas pipeline transportation and pipeline facilities pursuant to federal law.

Version chain

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

1. 02/24/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/09/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/17/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/21/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/27/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/14/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/23/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB2559 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/07/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Environmental Quality. — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2559 BUCHANAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2559 BUCHANAN Assembly Third Reading — 71–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Local Government. — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent #16 — 37–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Buchanan — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-24 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2012-02-26 From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
• 2012-02-27 Read first time. reading-1
• 2012-03-19 Referred to Coms. on U. & C. and L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2012-04-09 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on U. & C. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-04-09 Re-referred to Com. on U. & C. referral-committee
• 2012-04-16 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 9). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-04-17 Read second time and amended. reading-2, 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
• 2012-05-10 Ordered to third reading.
• 2012-05-21 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 4913.) reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-05-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 4976.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-05-25 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-06-07 Referred to Coms. on E., U. & C. and E.Q. referral-committee
• 2012-06-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E.Q. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on E.Q. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-06-27 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E.Q. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-07-03 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-06 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2012-08-13 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and be amended. committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-14 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-15 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2012-08-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4785.). 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 80. Noes 0. Page 6425.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12:30 p.m.
• 2012-09-23 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-23 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 486, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/52128267-7307-4632-9a24-bad5ddc4fba9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).