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Bill	Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act: remedial action: liability.	Existing law, the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act, requires a person who discharges waste into the waters of the state in violation of waste discharge requirements or other order or prohibition issued by a California regional water quality control board or the State Water Resources Control Board to clean up the waste or to abate the effects of the waste. Existing law authorizes the regional board to expend available moneys to perform any cleanup, abatement, or remedial work required under those circumstances.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 2442	California AB 2442 (20132014)	bill	Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act: remedial action: liability.	enacted	Gordon	8	23	6	2014-02-21	2014-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/6f4874a9-f006-4240-a896-6ecfa8e04982	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2442	f2776318142ba1d31c87af1a4762caefafe6fcf9294c49773f836f4bf6ccaef7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2442 (20132014) — Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act: remedial action: liability.

Existing law, the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act, requires a person who discharges waste into the waters of the state in violation of waste discharge requirements or other order or prohibition issued by a California regional water quality control board or the State Water Resources Control Board to clean up the waste or to abate the effects of the waste. Existing law authorizes the regional board to expend available moneys to perform any cleanup, abatement, or remedial work required under those circumstances.

Version chain

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

1. 02/21/14 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/01/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/04/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/01/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/20/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/28/14 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2442 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/03/14 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended. — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 2442 GORDON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 54–24 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2442 Gordon By Hill — 22–12 (pass) · upper
• AB 2442 GORDON Assembly Third Reading — 52–22 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 5–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Judiciary. — 5–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Gordon — primary (person)
• Alejo — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-02-21 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2014-02-23 From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
• 2014-02-24 Read first time. reading-1
• 2014-03-10 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2014-04-07 Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. referral-committee
• 2014-04-30 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 29). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-05-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-05-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-05-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 52. Noes 22. Page 4841.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-05-08 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2014-05-22 Referred to Coms. on E.Q. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2014-06-04 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. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-06-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2014-06-30 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 24). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-07-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-20 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-21 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-08-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 22. Noes 12. Page 4838.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-08-25 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 27 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2014-08-27 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 54. Noes 24. Page 6523.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2014-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2014-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2014-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 739, Statutes of 2014.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6f4874a9-f006-4240-a896-6ecfa8e04982. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).