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Bill	Resources: surface mining.	The Surface Mining and Reclamation Act of 1975 prohibits a person from conducting surface mining operations without obtaining a permit from the lead agency for those operations, and submitting and receiving approval for a reclamation plan and financial assurances from the lead agency. The act makes certain findings and declarations regarding surface mining, including the finding that the extraction of minerals is essential to the continued economic well-being of the state and to the needs of the society.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 566	California AB 566 (20112012)	bill	Resources: surface mining.	enacted	Galgiani	6	21	6	2011-02-16	2011-09-06	openstates	ocd-bill/4c607c4e-d49d-404b-b0a6-54f9f4000b54	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB566	2c10fec6ce6cb6b8026ebb3999b7ed7937df3b2f40cd07acf5f248043daa096c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 566 (20112012) — Resources: surface mining.

The Surface Mining and Reclamation Act of 1975 prohibits a person from conducting surface mining operations without obtaining a permit from the lead agency for those operations, and submitting and receiving approval for a reclamation plan and financial assurances from the lead agency. The act makes certain findings and declarations regarding surface mining, including the finding that the extraction of minerals is essential to the continued economic well-being of the state and to the needs of the society.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/22/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/21/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/06/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB566 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/16/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 566 GALGIANI Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 566 GALGIANI Consent Calendar Second Day — 70–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar 2nd — 37–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Galgiani — primary (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 NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2011-03-22 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-03-23 Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2011-04-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-05 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 4). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-09 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-05-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 1357.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-05-12 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2011-05-26 Referred to Com. on N.R. & W. referral-committee
• 2011-06-20 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 14). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-06-21 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-07-11 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage
• 2011-07-12 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-07-14 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1864.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-07-14 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 12 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2011-08-15 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2382.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-08-22 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 10:30 a.m.
• 2011-09-06 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-09-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 218, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4c607c4e-d49d-404b-b0a6-54f9f4000b54. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).