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type: "Bill"
title: "Drainage: Coachella Valley County Water District."
description: "The County Water District Law governs the operations of the Coachella Valley County Water District. The County Water District Law authorizes a district to drain and reclaim lands within the district either by surface or underground works or both and to acquire, by appropriation or other lawful means, and divert, store, conserve, transport, or dispose of water resulting from these activities. Under existing law, the district is authorized to raise funds by special assessment on benefited land in proportion to the benefits derived by the benefited lands, as prescribed."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "SB 171"
citation: "California SB 171 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Drainage: Coachella Valley County Water District."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hueso"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2013-02-05"
last_action: "2013-08-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4165b7e6-7f5a-4d67-9a42-bf89db460739"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB171"
source_hash: "5698ca6dcb7e52d039958822b2296998a156b123e9b824122ee403d54921adb7"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---
# California SB 171 (20132014) — Drainage: Coachella Valley County Water District.
The County Water District Law governs the operations of the Coachella Valley County Water District. The County Water District Law authorizes a district to drain and reclaim lands within the district either by surface or underground works or both and to acquire, by appropriation or other lawful means, and divert, store, conserve, transport, or dispose of water resulting from these activities. Under existing law, the district is authorized to raise funds by special assessment on benefited land in proportion to the benefits derived by the benefited lands, as prescribed.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/05/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB171&version=20130SB17199INT)
2. **04/08/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB171&version=20130SB17198AMD)
3. **08/16/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB171&version=20130SB17196CHP)
4. **SB171** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB171)
5. **08/02/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB171&version=20130SB17197ENR)
## Votes
- 3rd Reading — **298** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **81** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **61** (pass) · upper
- SB 171 Hueso Senate Third Reading By RENDON — **5316** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Hueso — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2013-02-05** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `reading-1, introduction`
- **2013-02-06** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 8.
- **2013-02-14** Referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-08** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. `committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-04-09** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2013-04-09** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-11** Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-16** Set for hearing May 8.
- **2013-05-08** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 1. Page 881.) (May 8). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-05-09** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-05-16** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 8. Page 942.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-05-16** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2013-05-28** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2013-06-13** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (June 12). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-06-14** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-07-03** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 53. Noes 16. Page 2290.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-07-03** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2013-08-06** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 10 a.m.
- **2013-08-16** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2013-08-16** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 119, Statutes of 2013.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4165b7e6-7f5a-4d67-9a42-bf89db460739`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).