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Bill	Water: use efficiency: graywater building standards.	Existing law authorizes a city, county, or other local agency to adopt, after a public hearing and enactment of an ordinance or resolution, building standards that prohibit entirely the use of graywater, or building standards that are more restrictive than the graywater building standards adopted by the Department of Housing and Community Development and published in the California Building Standards Code.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 849	California AB 849 (20112012)	bill	Water: use efficiency: graywater building standards.	enacted	Gatto	11	27	7	2011-02-17	2011-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/5b361739-f57c-42e5-a9c6-683d86eb464a	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB849	76e7a695a9f80d4df320129083b7c8d7dd2bc7d82b7785c803928f6d3139b2da	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 849 (20112012) — Water: use efficiency: graywater building standards.

Existing law authorizes a city, county, or other local agency to adopt, after a public hearing and enactment of an ordinance or resolution, building standards that prohibit entirely the use of graywater, or building standards that are more restrictive than the graywater building standards adopted by the Department of Housing and Community Development and published in the California Building Standards Code.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/31/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/02/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/26/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/14/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/23/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 07/13/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/18/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 10/08/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. AB849 (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/08/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, but re-refer to the Committee on Environmental Quality Recommend Consent. — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 849 GATTO Assembly Third Reading — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB849 Gatto By Lowenthal — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 849 GATTO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Local Government. — 7–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Gatto — primary (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.
• 2011-03-31 Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2011-03-31 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-04-04 Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2011-04-28 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 27). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-02 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-05-03 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2011-05-12 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (May 11). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-05-26 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1553.) reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-05-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1633.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-05-31 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2011-06-08 Referred to Coms. on T. & H. and E.Q. referral-committee
• 2011-06-14 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on T. & H. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-06-22 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on E.Q. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 21). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-06-23 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.Q. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-07-12 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 6). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-07-13 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-08-18 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-08-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2128.). 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 77. Noes 0. Page 2842.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
• 2011-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 577, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5b361739-f57c-42e5-a9c6-683d86eb464a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).