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Bill	Water rights: appropriation.	(1) Existing law authorizes any person to obtain a right to appropriate water for small domestic use or livestock stockpond use upon registering the use with the State Water Resources Control Board and upon thereafter applying the water to reasonable and beneficial use with due diligence. For these purposes, existing law defines a small domestic use as a domestic use, as defined by board rule, including impoundment for incidental aesthetic, recreational, or fish and wildlife purposes, not to exceed direct diversion of 4,500 gallons per day or diversion to storage of 10 acre-feet per annum. With regard to small domestic use, existing law prohibits more than one registration from being in effect at any time for any facility. Existing law allows a registrant to maintain more than one registration for livestock stockpond use if stockponds subject to registration do not exceed the ratio of one per 50 acres. Existing law provides for registration renewals of small domestic uses and livestock stockpond uses prior to the expiration of each 5-year period following completed registration. Existing law requires the board to establish reasonable general conditions applicable to appropriations for small domestic use or livestock stockpond use, and specifies minimum conditions for those appropriations.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 964	California AB 964 (20112012)	bill	Water rights: appropriation.	enacted	Huffman	9	31	9	2011-02-18	2011-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/ffac0dbc-e39c-4fa5-98a2-961df269f9d7	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB964	41df0d969cb2f22262adad3c7fa57a7598f277aab54de6238bf983d02ef6a3b6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 964 (20112012) — Water rights: appropriation.

(1) Existing law authorizes any person to obtain a right to appropriate water for small domestic use or livestock stockpond use upon registering the use with the State Water Resources Control Board and upon thereafter applying the water to reasonable and beneficial use with due diligence. For these purposes, existing law defines a small domestic use as a domestic use, as defined by board rule, including impoundment for incidental aesthetic, recreational, or fish and wildlife purposes, not to exceed direct diversion of 4,500 gallons per day or diversion to storage of 10 acre-feet per annum. With regard to small domestic use, existing law prohibits more than one registration from being in effect at any time for any facility. Existing law allows a registrant to maintain more than one registration for livestock stockpond use if stockponds subject to registration do not exceed the ratio of one per 50 acres. Existing law provides for registration renewals of small domestic uses and livestock stockpond uses prior to the expiration of each 5-year period following completed registration. Existing law requires the board to establish reasonable general conditions applicable to appropriations for small domestic use or livestock stockpond use, and specifies minimum conditions for those appropriations.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/17/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/13/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/13/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/30/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/18/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/08/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB964 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/06/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB964 Huffman By Blakeslee — 31–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• amendments be concurred in. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 964 HUFFMAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 964 HUFFMAN Consent Calendar Second Day — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — 9–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Huffman — primary (person)
• Chesbro — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-18 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2011-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2011-03-10 Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and E.S. & T.M. referral-committee
• 2011-03-17 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
• 2011-03-21 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2011-04-07 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E.S. & T.M. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 6). Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-04-13 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E.S. & T.M. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-04-14 Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. referral-committee
• 2011-04-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-12 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 11). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-16 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-05-19 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1452.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-05-19 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2011-06-02 Referred to Com. on E.Q. referral-committee
• 2011-06-13 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E.Q. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-06-15 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2011-06-15 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2011-06-16 Re-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. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (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
• 2011-08-17 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 15). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-08-18 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-08-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 0. Page 2014.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-08-22 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2011-08-25 Re-referred to Com. on W., P. & W. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2011-08-29 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended.
• 2011-08-30 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (August 30). committee-passage
• 2011-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2729.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-07 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2011-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 579, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ffac0dbc-e39c-4fa5-98a2-961df269f9d7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).