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Bill	Ventura County Watershed Protection District: indebtedness.	Existing law, the Ventura County Watershed Protection Act, creates the Ventura County Watershed Protection District and grants to that district authority that includes the control of floodwater and stormwater. The act authorizes the district to borrow money and incur indebtedness for various purposes, including financing flood control and conservation projects and repairing or removing flood control structures, in accordance with specified requirements.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 561	California AB 561 (20112012)	bill	Ventura County Watershed Protection District: indebtedness.	enacted	Gorell	7	22	5	2011-02-16	2011-08-04	openstates	ocd-bill/635d29ec-1e2e-4fc2-8860-e00c4f843cb5	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB561	5692f1318d056f23836d2f484340e8ef9518e5ed57cc7e0db1826dc39abdebf1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 561 (20112012) — Ventura County Watershed Protection District: indebtedness.

Existing law, the Ventura County Watershed Protection Act, creates the Ventura County Watershed Protection District and grants to that district authority that includes the control of floodwater and stormwater. The act authorizes the district to borrow money and incur indebtedness for various purposes, including financing flood control and conservation projects and repairing or removing flood control structures, in accordance with specified requirements.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/04/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/07/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/28/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/04/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB561 (committee substitute) — source
7. 07/15/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended. — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 561 GORELL Assembly Third Reading By SMYTH — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent #6 AB561 Gorell By Strickland — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 561 GORELL Concurrence in Senate Amendments By SMYTH — 77–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Gorell — primary (person)
• Smyth — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2011-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2011-03-03 Referred to Com. on W., P. & W. referral-committee
• 2011-03-07 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. referral-committee
• 2011-04-04 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
• 2011-04-05 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2011-04-14 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 13). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-04-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-05-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 1169.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-05-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2011-05-12 Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2011-06-07 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-06-15 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2011-06-27 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 22). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-06-28 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-07-06 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2011-07-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1787.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-07-11 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 13 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2011-07-14 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2322.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-07-25 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
• 2011-08-04 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-08-04 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 175, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/635d29ec-1e2e-4fc2-8860-e00c4f843cb5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).