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Bill	Innovative forest products and mass timber.	Existing law establishes the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection in the Natural Resources Agency. Existing law declares that a thriving in-state forest products sector provides public benefits, including employment opportunities in both rural and urban areas, and economic development for rural communities. Existing law requires the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency to establish a working group on expanding wood product markets, as provided.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2518	California AB 2518 (20172018)	bill	Innovative forest products and mass timber.	enacted	Aguiar-Curry	8	25	8	2018-02-14	2018-09-21	openstates	ocd-bill/9c7e0255-5f54-4fba-9d0f-214a2d4d0cb5	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2518	49a08b4b9de9dd16e97f257af08717ee3322546b3c92acc1387f91398c93ddb5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2518 (20172018) — Innovative forest products and mass timber.

Existing law establishes the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection in the Natural Resources Agency. Existing law declares that a thriving in-state forest products sector provides public benefits, including employment opportunities in both rural and urban areas, and economic development for rural communities. Existing law requires the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency to establish a working group on expanding wood product markets, as provided.

Version chain

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

1. 02/14/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/30/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/18/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/03/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/24/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/21/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2518 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/04/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB2518 Aguiar-Curry By Hertzberg — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2518 AGUIAR-CURRY Consent Calendar Second Day — 70–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2518 AGUIAR-CURRY Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Aguiar-Curry — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-14 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-15 From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
• 2018-03-05 Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2018-04-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-04-30 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-05-01 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2018-05-16 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-05-17 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-05-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 5306.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-05-25 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
• 2018-07-02 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 26). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-07-03 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2018-08-06 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2018-08-17 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-08-17 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 5992.). 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 79. Noes 0. Page 7031.). 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 637, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9c7e0255-5f54-4fba-9d0f-214a2d4d0cb5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).