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Bill	Boating and Waterways: Harbors and Watercraft Commission.	(1) Existing law establishes the Department of Boating and Waterways in the Natural Resources Agency and charges the department with duties related to beach erosion, harbors, and recreational boat trails. Existing law establishes the Boating and Waterways Commission to provide advice to that department.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 737	California AB 737 (20112012)	bill	Boating and Waterways: Harbors and Watercraft Commission.	enacted	Buchanan	6	28	7	2011-02-17	2012-07-17	openstates	ocd-bill/96c6fe13-6840-40a7-b9d4-1da5f4b31768	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB737	6be62b62f5ba44958d304de1a2c38f32e556c68d944b645ced50cf87c913481d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 737 (20112012) — Boating and Waterways: Harbors and Watercraft Commission.

(1) Existing law establishes the Department of Boating and Waterways in the Natural Resources Agency and charges the department with duties related to beach erosion, harbors, and recreational boat trails. Existing law establishes the Boating and Waterways Commission to provide advice to that department.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/04/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/28/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/17/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB737 (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/05/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB737 Buchanan By Lieu — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations to Consent Calendar. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 737 HUBER Consent Calendar Second Day — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 737 BUCHANAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 12–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Buchanan — primary (person)
• Achadjian — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2011-02-18 From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
• 2011-03-07 Referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2012-01-04 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
• 2012-01-04 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2012-01-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (January 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-01-19 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (January 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-01-23 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-01-26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 3607.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-01-26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-02-16 Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2012-06-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-06-25 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage
• 2012-06-26 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-06-27 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2012-06-28 Re-referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2012-06-28 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on G.O. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-07-02 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-07-02 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2012-07-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-07-05 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4281.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-07-05 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 3 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-07-05 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 5607.)
• 2012-07-05 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 5607.)
• 2012-07-05 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 5609.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-07-05 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5:10 p.m.
• 2012-07-17 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-07-17 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 136, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/96c6fe13-6840-40a7-b9d4-1da5f4b31768. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).