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Bill	California Winter Rice Habitat Incentive Program.	Existing law authorizes the Director of Fish and Wildlife, pursuant to the California Waterfowl Habitat Program, to enter into land use contracts for an initial term of 10 years to conserve waterfowl and waterfowl habitat with nonpublic entities that are owners of record or with lessees of land determined by the director to be important for the conservation of waterfowl, subject to the appropriation of money for that purpose. Under those contracts, the use of the land is restricted for waterfowl conservation and habitat purposes and the Department of Fish and Wildlife makes payments for that restriction. Existing law requires the contract to be recorded by the county recorder, as specified, and, if the land is divested, the successor to the owner or lessee of the land is subject to the contract.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2348	California AB 2348 (20172018)	bill	California Winter Rice Habitat Incentive Program.	enacted	Aguiar-Curry	9	29	8	2018-02-13	2018-09-21	openstates	ocd-bill/130f746e-695e-482b-bb62-8c0144d143a3	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2348	274e7ba64cc3969aa329dc6d3fae3f02f9173135a74b050870a495fdacf06855	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2348 (20172018) — California Winter Rice Habitat Incentive Program.

Existing law authorizes the Director of Fish and Wildlife, pursuant to the California Waterfowl Habitat Program, to enter into land use contracts for an initial term of 10 years to conserve waterfowl and waterfowl habitat with nonpublic entities that are owners of record or with lessees of land determined by the director to be important for the conservation of waterfowl, subject to the appropriation of money for that purpose. Under those contracts, the use of the land is restricted for waterfowl conservation and habitat purposes and the Department of Fish and Wildlife makes payments for that restriction. Existing law requires the contract to be recorded by the county recorder, as specified, and, if the land is divested, the successor to the owner or lessee of the land is subject to the contract.

Version chain

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

1. 02/13/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/20/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/17/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/18/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/17/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/24/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/21/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB2348 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/04/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2348 AGUIAR-CURRY Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2348 Aguiar-Curry By Nielsen — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2348 AGUIAR-CURRY Assembly Third Reading — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Aguiar-Curry — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-13 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-14 From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
• 2018-03-19 Referred to Com. on W.,P., & W. referral-committee
• 2018-03-20 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on W.,P., & W. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-03-21 Re-referred to Com. on W.,P., & W. referral-committee
• 2018-04-17 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on W.,P., & W. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-04-18 Re-referred to Com. on W.,P., & W. referral-committee
• 2018-04-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-05-16 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2018-05-25 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 25). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-05-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-05-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 5417.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-05-30 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-06-07 Referred to Com. on N.R. & W. referral-committee
• 2018-06-18 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. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-08-06 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2018-08-13 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2018-08-17 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-08-17 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-24 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2018-08-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5974.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-29 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2018-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6999.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2018-09-21 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-21 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 649, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/130f746e-695e-482b-bb62-8c0144d143a3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).