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Bill	Groundwater management plans.	(1) Existing law authorizes specified local agencies that provide water service to adopt and implement a groundwater management plan. Existing law requires a local agency that elects to develop a groundwater management plan to hold a hearing prior to adopting a resolution of intention to draft a plan and, after the plan is prepared, to hold a 2nd hearing to determine whether to adopt the plan. Existing law requires the local agency to publish a specified notice before each of these hearings. Existing law requires a local agency to prepare a groundwater management plan within 2 years of the date of the adoption of the resolution of intention.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 359	California AB 359 (20112012)	bill	Groundwater management plans.	enacted	Huffman	7	25	9	2011-02-14	2011-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/1ef7dc47-4e74-4b84-9771-dccb8a827a31	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB359	c0a26cb7f3ab078150aba56ed320d43f75fd2be4cfb70fbcae52dab7e9e9939c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 359 (20112012) — Groundwater management plans.

(1) Existing law authorizes specified local agencies that provide water service to adopt and implement a groundwater management plan. Existing law requires a local agency that elects to develop a groundwater management plan to hold a hearing prior to adopting a resolution of intention to draft a plan and, after the plan is prepared, to hold a 2nd hearing to determine whether to adopt the plan. Existing law requires the local agency to publish a specified notice before each of these hearings. Existing law requires a local agency to prepare a groundwater management plan within 2 years of the date of the adoption of the resolution of intention.

Version chain

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

1. 02/14/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/11/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/27/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/30/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/08/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB359 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/08/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Local Government. — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB359 Huffman By Pavley — 26–10 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 11–6 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 6–3 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 5–3 (pass) · lower
• AB 359 HUFFMAN Assembly Third Reading — 74–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 359 HUFFMAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 56–19 (pass) · lower
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 5–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Huffman — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-14 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2011-02-15 From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
• 2011-02-24 Referred to Coms. on W., P. & W. and L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2011-03-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 22). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-04-11 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
• 2011-04-12 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2011-04-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 3.) (April 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-11 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2011-05-27 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 6.) (May 27). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-27 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-05-31 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-06-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 1. Page 1719.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-06-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2011-06-08 Referred to Com. on N.R. & W. referral-committee
• 2011-06-29 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 28). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-06-30 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-08-15 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2011-08-25 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (August 25). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-08-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-08-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 26. Noes 10. Page 2164.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 2 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2011-09-02 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 56. Noes 19. Page 2852.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-16 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
• 2011-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 572, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1ef7dc47-4e74-4b84-9771-dccb8a827a31. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).