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type: "Bill"
title: "Water conservation."
description: "Existing law requires the Department of General Services to provide planning, acquisition, construction, and maintenance of state buildings and property, and maintain a statewide property inventory of all real property held by the state. Existing law requires the department, in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, and with the concurrence of the Department of Finance, to identify each public building in the department's state property inventory where it is feasible for that building to reduce energy consumption and achieve energy efficiencies, as specified, and make retrofits, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 606"
citation: "California AB 606 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Water conservation."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Levine"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 27
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2015-02-24"
last_action: "2015-10-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e438fa68-97b9-44f2-8e48-244a7a00a63f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB606"
source_hash: "edb516580b1bcc2cfba5e59fede6682bc47a01c6e5d59e3178813ed7f5630610"
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 606 (20152016) — Water conservation.
Existing law requires the Department of General Services to provide planning, acquisition, construction, and maintenance of state buildings and property, and maintain a statewide property inventory of all real property held by the state. Existing law requires the department, in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, and with the concurrence of the Department of Finance, to identify each public building in the department's state property inventory where it is feasible for that building to reduce energy consumption and achieve energy efficiencies, as specified, and make retrofits, as specified.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/24/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB606&version=20150AB60699INT)
2. **04/13/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB606&version=20150AB60698AMD)
3. **05/12/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB606&version=20150AB60697AMD)
4. **08/17/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB606&version=20150AB60696AMD)
5. **08/25/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB606&version=20150AB60695AMD)
6. **10/09/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB606&version=20150AB60693CHP)
7. **AB606** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB606)
8. **09/03/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB606&version=20150AB60694ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **150** (pass) · lower
- AB 606 LEVINE Consent Calendar Second Day — **760** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **90** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB606 Levine By Wolk — **400** (pass) · upper
- AB 606 LEVINE Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **790** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **120** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Levine — primary (person)
- Wolk — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2015-02-24** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2015-02-25** From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
- **2015-03-09** Referred to Com. on A. & A.R. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-13** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on A. & A.R. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-14** Re-referred to Com. on A. & A.R. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-29** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-05-12** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-05-13** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2015-05-20** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 20). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-05-21** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-05-26** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1594.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-05-26** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2015-06-04** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2015-06-29** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-07-06** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2015-08-17** 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`
- **2015-08-18** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 17). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-08-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-08-25** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-08-26** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-08-31** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2302.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-08-31** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 2 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2015-09-01** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 2729.)
- **2015-09-01** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2737.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2015-09-10** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2015-10-09** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2015-10-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 665, Statutes of 2015.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e438fa68-97b9-44f2-8e48-244a7a00a63f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).