republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/ab-1343.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Water conservation: school districts: Go Low Flow Water Conservation Partnerships."
description: "Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district to initiate and carry on any program or activity, or to otherwise act in any manner, which is not in conflict or inconsistent with, or preempted by, any law and which is not in conflict with the purposes for which school districts are established."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 1343"
citation: "California AB 1343 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Water conservation: school districts: Go Low Flow Water Conservation Partnerships."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chen"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-02-17"
last_action: "2017-07-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ecb09f92-4c4a-4feb-9f29-54ba613936e6"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1343"
source_hash: "f0ee2e3c0f1110f461dfc971874a154114c60d4b8ee6e6bf23921b5c560e1f48"
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 1343 (20172018) — Water conservation: school districts: Go Low Flow Water Conservation Partnerships.

Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district to initiate and carry on any program or activity, or to otherwise act in any manner, which is not in conflict or inconsistent with, or preempted by, any law and which is not in conflict with the purposes for which school districts are established.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/17/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1343&version=20170AB134399INT)
2. **04/04/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1343&version=20170AB134398AMD)
3. **04/24/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1343&version=20170AB134397AMD)
4. **07/21/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1343&version=20170AB134395CHP)
5. **AB1343** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1343)
6. **07/06/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1343&version=20170AB134396ENR)

## Votes

- Consent Calendar 2nd AB1343 — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Environmental Quality] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **6–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chen — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-17** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2017-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- **2017-04-03** Referred to Coms. on ED. and E.S. & T.M. `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-04** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-04-05** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-20** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E.S. & T.M. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 19). Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-04-24** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E.S. & T.M. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-04-25** Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-26** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 25). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-04-27** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-05-04** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1387.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-05-04** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2017-05-18** Referred to Coms. on ED. and EQ. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-14** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on EQ. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on EQ. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-06-21** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 21). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-06-22** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-07-03** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 1840.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-07-03** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2017-07-10** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:40 p.m.
- **2017-07-21** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-07-21** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 90, Statutes of 2017.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ecb09f92-4c4a-4feb-9f29-54ba613936e6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).