Excavations: regional notification center system: contractor certification.
Existing law generally requires any person planning to conduct an excavation to contact a regional notification center prior to excavation, and, if practical, to delineate the areas to be excavated. Existing law authorizes the Attorney General, a district attorney, or the state or a local agency that issued a permit to excavate to bring an action for the enforcement of a civil penalty against an operator or excavator who negligently or knowingly and willfully violates the requirements of these and related provisions.
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California Legislature
20132014
AB 811
California AB 811 (20132014)
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Excavations: regional notification center system: contractor certification.
California AB 811 (20132014) — Excavations: regional notification center system: contractor certification.
Existing law generally requires any person planning to conduct an excavation to contact a regional notification center prior to excavation, and, if practical, to delineate the areas to be excavated. Existing law authorizes the Attorney General, a district attorney, or the state or a local agency that issued a permit to excavate to bring an action for the enforcement of a civil penalty against an operator or excavator who negligently or knowingly and willfully violates the requirements of these and related provisions.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
Consent Calendar 2nd — 38–0 (pass) · upper
AB 811 LOWENTHAL Consent Calendar Second Day — 75–0 (pass) · lower
AB 811 LOWENTHAL Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
Lowenthal — primary (person)
Hill — principal coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2013-02-21 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2013-02-22 From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
2013-03-04 Referred to Coms. on JUD. and B.,P. & C.P. referral-committee
2013-04-02 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
2013-04-03 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
2013-04-09 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
2013-04-09 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
2013-04-10 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
2013-04-11 Re-referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. referral-committee
2013-05-07 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 7). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2013-05-08 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
2013-05-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1409.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
2013-05-13 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2013-05-23 Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
2013-06-03 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
2013-06-04 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
2013-07-03 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 3). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2013-07-08 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
2013-08-15 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1844.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
2013-08-15 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 17 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
2013-08-19 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2584.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
2013-08-26 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:15 p.m.
2013-09-06 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2013-09-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 250, Statutes of 2013.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/db5afeba-d316-4552-961e-65d2a1ad8e46. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).