republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/ab-1794.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Central Basin Municipal Water District."
description: "Existing law, the Municipal Water District Law of 1911, provides for the formation of municipal water districts and grants to those districts' specified powers. Existing law permits a district to acquire, control, distribute, store, spread, sink, treat, purify, recycle, recapture, and salvage any water for the beneficial use of the district, its inhabitants, or the owners of rights to water in the district. Existing law requires the board of directors of a district to consist of 5 members and each director to be a resident of the division from which the director is elected."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 1794"
citation: "California AB 1794 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Central Basin Municipal Water District."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cristina Garcia"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 28
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2016-02-04"
last_action: "2016-09-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/35a88faa-eb07-4e11-9e60-77f868dc0858"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1794"
source_hash: "7b29ae6eb783cac06531aa2ad9308b33ae69113ee63c7e1bc492350a695288e2"
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 1794 (20152016) — Central Basin Municipal Water District.

Existing law, the Municipal Water District Law of 1911, provides for the formation of municipal water districts and grants to those districts' specified powers. Existing law permits a district to acquire, control, distribute, store, spread, sink, treat, purify, recycle, recapture, and salvage any water for the beneficial use of the district, its inhabitants, or the owners of rights to water in the district. Existing law requires the board of directors of a district to consist of 5 members and each director to be a resident of the division from which the director is elected.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/04/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1794&version=20150AB179499INT)
2. **03/17/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1794&version=20150AB179498AMD)
3. **04/11/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1794&version=20150AB179497AMD)
4. **06/09/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1794&version=20150AB179496AMD)
5. **08/15/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1794&version=20150AB179495AMD)
6. **09/21/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1794&version=20150AB179493CHP)
7. **AB1794** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1794)
8. **08/25/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1794&version=20150AB179494ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1794 GARCIA, C. Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **80–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **20–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1794 GARCIA, C. Third Reading Urgency — **50–0** (fail) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1794 Cristina Garcia By Lara — **31–4** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–1** (pass) · upper
- AB 1794 GARCIA, C. Third Reading Urgency — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended — **5–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cristina Garcia — primary (person)
- Lara — coauthor (person)
- O'Donnell — coauthor (person)
- Rendon — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-02-04** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2016-02-05** From printer. May be heard in committee March 6.
- **2016-03-17** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-17** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-03-28** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2016-04-07** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 6). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-04-11** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-04-12** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2016-04-27** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2016-05-27** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (May 27). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-06-01** Read third time. Urgency clause refused adoption. (Ayes 50. Noes 0. Page 5145.) `reading-3, reading-1`
- **2016-06-01** Motion to reconsider made by Assembly Member Cristina Garcia.
- **2016-06-02** Reconsideration granted. (Page 5227.)
- **2016-06-02** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 5227.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-06-06** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2016-06-09** Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-09** 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. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-06-22** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-08-01** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2016-08-11** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 11). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-08-15** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-08-19** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 4. Page 5161.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-19** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 21 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2016-08-24** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6206.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2016-08-31** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2016-09-21** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-09-21** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 401, Statutes of 2016.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/35a88faa-eb07-4e11-9e60-77f868dc0858`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).