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Bill	Sierra Nevada Conservancy.	Existing law establishes the Sierra Nevada Conservancy in the Natural Resources Agency, and prescribes the membership and functions and duties of the conservancy. Existing law requires that the governing board of the conservancy consist of 13 voting members and 3 nonvoting liaison advisers, appointed or designated in accordance with specified procedures.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 985	California AB 985 (20152016)	bill	Sierra Nevada Conservancy.	enacted	Dahle	5	19	5	2015-02-26	2015-07-14	openstates	ocd-bill/1476c43c-d211-40d1-ab6b-539fdc01a697	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB985	b740897d7904c589228da8ecfd0fc7a3ab5333e9ea6a7b0b918105f725f6b5a0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 985 (20152016) — Sierra Nevada Conservancy.

Existing law establishes the Sierra Nevada Conservancy in the Natural Resources Agency, and prescribes the membership and functions and duties of the conservancy. Existing law requires that the governing board of the conservancy consist of 13 voting members and 3 nonvoting liaison advisers, appointed or designated in accordance with specified procedures.

Version chain

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

1. 02/26/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/20/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/14/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB985 (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/29/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 985 DAHLE Consent Calendar Second Day — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar 2nd — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dahle — primary (person)
• Harper — coauthor (person)
• Mark Stone — coauthor (person)
• Wood — 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 Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2015-04-16 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 13). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-04-20 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-04-21 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2015-04-29 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 29). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-04-30 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-05-07 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1349.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-05-07 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-05-21 Referred to Com. on N.R. & W. referral-committee
• 2015-06-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-06-22 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage
• 2015-06-23 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-06-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1620.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-25 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2015-07-02 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1 p.m.
• 2015-07-14 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-07-14 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 89, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1476c43c-d211-40d1-ab6b-539fdc01a697. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).