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Bill	Forestry: timberlands: restoration and conservation forest management activities.	The Z'berg-Nejedly Forest Practice Act of 1973 prohibits a person from conducting timber operations, as defined, unless a timber harvesting plan prepared by a registered professional forester has been submitted to the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. The act authorizes the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection to exempt from some or all of those provisions of the act a person engaging in specified forest management activities. Existing law authorizes a registered professional forester in an emergency to file, on behalf of a timber owner or operator, a specified emergency notice with the department that allows for the immediate commencement of timber operations.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 1958	California AB 1958 (20152016)	bill	Forestry: timberlands: restoration and conservation forest management activities.	enacted	Wood	10	29	8	2016-02-12	2016-09-24	openstates	ocd-bill/4f6a4ce8-09c1-4b39-85b9-b0ecea22987b	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1958	5a47f50d92dcaf1904dffdd6bec254edb5b3766231c7edf112ebe7aeed595ca9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1958 (20152016) — Forestry: timberlands: restoration and conservation forest management activities.

The Z'berg-Nejedly Forest Practice Act of 1973 prohibits a person from conducting timber operations, as defined, unless a timber harvesting plan prepared by a registered professional forester has been submitted to the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. The act authorizes the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection to exempt from some or all of those provisions of the act a person engaging in specified forest management activities. Existing law authorizes a registered professional forester in an emergency to file, on behalf of a timber owner or operator, a specified emergency notice with the department that allows for the immediate commencement of timber operations.

Version chain

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

1. 02/12/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/29/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/07/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/21/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/02/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/04/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/19/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/24/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB1958 (committee substitute) — source
10. 08/30/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1958 WOOD Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 1958 WOOD Assembly Third Reading — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1958 Wood By McGuire — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Wood — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-12 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2016-02-16 From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
• 2016-02-25 Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2016-03-29 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
• 2016-03-30 Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2016-04-06 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 4). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-04-07 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-04-11 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2016-04-20 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
• 2016-05-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 5026.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-06-09 Referred to Com. on N.R. & W. referral-committee
• 2016-06-21 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-01 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (June 28). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-02 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-04 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-08 Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2016-08-11 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-19 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5289.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-24 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-08-29 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6342.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-09-06 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5:30 p.m.
• 2016-09-24 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-24 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 583, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4f6a4ce8-09c1-4b39-85b9-b0ecea22987b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).