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type: "Bill"
title: "Oil and gas: pipelines."
description: "Existing law requires the Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources to prescribe minimum facility maintenance standards for oil and gas production facilities, including pipelines that are not under the jurisdiction of the State Fire Marshal. Under the division's regulations, an owner or operator of an active environmentally sensitive gas pipeline that is a gathering line or an urban pipeline over 4 inches in diameter is required to perform a mechanical integrity test on the pipeline every 2 years, unless it is less than 10 years old."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 1420"
citation: "California AB 1420 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Oil and gas: pipelines."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Salas"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 33
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2015-02-27"
last_action: "2015-10-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a726a462-81fe-44e3-834d-a21707a6ec61"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1420"
source_hash: "3d3f6189ed964a4d5146affa8ddf477e2426d2b002e3b48c09d4549c78e382cb"
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 AB 1420 (20152016) — Oil and gas: pipelines.
Existing law requires the Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources to prescribe minimum facility maintenance standards for oil and gas production facilities, including pipelines that are not under the jurisdiction of the State Fire Marshal. Under the division's regulations, an owner or operator of an active environmentally sensitive gas pipeline that is a gathering line or an urban pipeline over 4 inches in diameter is required to perform a mechanical integrity test on the pipeline every 2 years, unless it is less than 10 years old.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/27/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1420&version=20150AB142099INT)
2. **03/26/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1420&version=20150AB142098AMD)
3. **04/21/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1420&version=20150AB142097AMD)
4. **06/30/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1420&version=20150AB142096AMD)
5. **07/06/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1420&version=20150AB142095AMD)
6. **08/18/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1420&version=20150AB142094AMD)
7. **09/01/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1420&version=20150AB142093AMD)
8. **09/04/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1420&version=20150AB142092AMD)
9. **10/08/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1420&version=20150AB142090CHP)
10. **AB1420** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1420)
11. **09/14/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1420&version=20150AB142091ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **50** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Environmental Quality] — **90** (pass) · upper
- AB 1420 SALAS Consent Calendar Second Day — **740** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1420 Salas By Jackson — **400** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **90** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **170** (pass) · lower
- AB 1420 SALAS Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **800** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Salas — primary (person)
- Vidak — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2015-02-27** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2015-03-01** From printer. May be heard in committee March 31.
- **2015-03-02** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2015-03-26** Referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and E.S. & T.M. `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-26** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-06** Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-21** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-22** Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-23** Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Page 1089.)
- **2015-04-23** (pending re-refer to Com. on E.S. & T.M.)
- **2015-04-28** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E.S. & T.M. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 27). Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-04-29** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (April 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-05-13** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 13). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-05-14** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-05-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1564.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-05-22** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2015-06-04** Referred to Coms. on N.R. & W. and E.Q. `referral-committee`
- **2015-06-29** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on E.Q. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 23). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2015-06-30** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.Q. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-07-06** 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. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-08-17** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 15). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2015-08-18** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-08-24** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2015-08-31** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 27). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2015-09-01** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-09-04** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-09-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-09-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2635.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-09-09** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2015-09-10** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 3070.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2015-09-18** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2015-10-08** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2015-10-08** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 601, Statutes of 2015.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a726a462-81fe-44e3-834d-a21707a6ec61`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).