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Bill	Water: water transfers: water right decrees.	Existing law regulates water transfers and, among other things, allows a permittee or licensee to temporarily change the point of diversion, place of use, or purpose of use due to a transfer or exchange of water or water rights if the transfer would only involve the amount of water that would have been consumptively used or stored by the permittee or licensee in the absence of the proposed temporary change, would not injure any legal user of the water, and would not unreasonably affect fish, wildlife, or other instream beneficial uses. Under existing law, any water right determined under a court decree issued after January 1, 1981, is transferable, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 426	California AB 426 (20132014)	bill	Water: water transfers: water right decrees.	enacted	Salas	6	22	5	2013-02-15	2013-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/5cd1deeb-f75f-49f0-b2d3-92e1b9518c0e	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB426	010d1138e3a3e61524deb6943f7825adf7d7955770c90ebd1b990e91155585c9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 426 (20132014) — Water: water transfers: water right decrees.

Existing law regulates water transfers and, among other things, allows a permittee or licensee to temporarily change the point of diversion, place of use, or purpose of use due to a transfer or exchange of water or water rights if the transfer would only involve the amount of water that would have been consumptively used or stored by the permittee or licensee in the absence of the proposed temporary change, would not injure any legal user of the water, and would not unreasonably affect fish, wildlife, or other instream beneficial uses. Under existing law, any water right determined under a court decree issued after January 1, 1981, is transferable, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/19/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/23/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/08/13 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB426 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/12/13 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 12–5 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 10–5 (pass) · lower
• AB 426 SALAS Assembly Third Reading — 51–23 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB426 Salas By Gaines — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 9–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Salas — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-15 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2013-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2013-03-19 Referred to Com. on W.,P. & W. referral-committee
• 2013-03-19 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on W.,P. & W. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-03-20 Re-referred to Com. on W.,P. & W. referral-committee
• 2013-04-16 In committee: Set, first hearing. Further hearing to be set.
• 2013-04-23 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on W.,P. & W. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-04-24 Re-referred to Com. on W.,P. & W. referral-committee
• 2013-04-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 5.) (April 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-05-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 15). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-05-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 51. Noes 23. Page 1566.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-05-23 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2013-06-06 Referred to Com. on N.R. & W. referral-committee
• 2013-06-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-07-11 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2013-08-12 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-09-06 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2178.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-09-06 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2013-09-24 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2013-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2013-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 634, Statutes of 2013.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5cd1deeb-f75f-49f0-b2d3-92e1b9518c0e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).