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type: "Bill"
title: "California and Mexico border: water resources improvement."
description: "(1) Existing law establishes the California-Mexico Border Relations Council in state government, and prescribes the membership and functions and duties of the council with respect to coordinating the activities of state agencies, including environmental agencies, that are related to cross-border programs, initiatives, projects, and partnerships that exist within state agencies, and state and local efforts that are of concern between California and Mexico. Existing law requires the council to develop a strategic plan to guide a project to study, monitor, remediate, and enhance water quality in the New River in Imperial County. Existing law establishes the California Border Environmental and Public Health Protection Fund and makes moneys in the fund available, upon appropriation, to the Secretary for Environmental Protection for grants for specified health and environmental projects and purposes relating to the California-Mexico border region."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 965"
citation: "California AB 965 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["California and Mexico border: water resources improvement."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eduardo Garcia"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 29
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2015-02-26"
last_action: "2015-10-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2ca9cc62-756b-4b60-9a5d-097805f7be0f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB965"
source_hash: "b825a3a5dab854b42b4a7f4218e92d53869f5d56502f2e68028440ed811b5798"
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 965 (20152016) — California and Mexico border: water resources improvement.
(1) Existing law establishes the California-Mexico Border Relations Council in state government, and prescribes the membership and functions and duties of the council with respect to coordinating the activities of state agencies, including environmental agencies, that are related to cross-border programs, initiatives, projects, and partnerships that exist within state agencies, and state and local efforts that are of concern between California and Mexico. Existing law requires the council to develop a strategic plan to guide a project to study, monitor, remediate, and enhance water quality in the New River in Imperial County. Existing law establishes the California Border Environmental and Public Health Protection Fund and makes moneys in the fund available, upon appropriation, to the Secretary for Environmental Protection for grants for specified health and environmental projects and purposes relating to the California-Mexico border region.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/26/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB965&version=20150AB96599INT)
2. **04/06/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB965&version=20150AB96598AMD)
3. **05/04/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB965&version=20150AB96597AMD)
4. **06/16/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB965&version=20150AB96596AMD)
5. **08/18/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB965&version=20150AB96595AMD)
6. **10/09/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB965&version=20150AB96593CHP)
7. **AB965** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB965)
8. **09/04/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB965&version=20150AB96594ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 965 GARCIA, E. Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **80–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 965 GARCIA, E. Assembly Third Reading — **80–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Water, Parks, and Wildlife] — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Environmental Quality] — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB965 Eduardo Garcia By Hueso — **40–0** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Eduardo Garcia — primary (person)
- Alejo — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2015-02-26** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2015-02-27** From printer. May be heard in committee March 29.
- **2015-03-16** Referred to Coms. on E.S. & T.M. and W., P., & W. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-06** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E.S. & T.M. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-07** Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-15** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on W., P., & W. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 14). Re-referred to Com. on W., P., & W. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-04-30** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 28). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2015-05-04** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-05-05** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2015-05-20** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2015-05-28** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 28). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-05-28** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-06-01** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 1721.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-06-01** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2015-06-11** Referred to Coms. on N.R. & W. and E.Q. `referral-committee`
- **2015-06-16** 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`
- **2015-06-24** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E.Q. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 23). Re-referred to Com. on E.Q. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **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`
- **2015-08-27** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 27). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-08-31** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-09-01** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2346.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-09-01** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 3 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2015-09-02** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 2795.)
- **2015-09-02** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 2807.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2015-09-15** 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 668, Statutes of 2015.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2ca9cc62-756b-4b60-9a5d-097805f7be0f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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