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Bill	Fully protected species: Lost River sucker and shortnose sucker limited take authorization: California condor limited take authorization.	(1) The California Endangered Species Act (CESA) prohibits the taking of an endangered or threatened species, except as specified. Under CESA, the Department of Fish and Wildlife may authorize, by permit, the take of listed species if the take is incidental to an otherwise lawful activity and the impacts are minimized and fully mitigated.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2640	California AB 2640 (20172018)	bill	Fully protected species: Lost River sucker and shortnose sucker limited take authorization: California condor limited take authorization.	enacted	Wood	7	23	6	2018-02-15	2018-09-20	openstates	ocd-bill/1b8a761f-a03e-4c87-9659-914b4ec4150e	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2640	84355dd0b18d21317b46562874dbf68c1d0d7b71330b843bc252c33bc1cd12eb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2640 (20172018) — Fully protected species: Lost River sucker and shortnose sucker limited take authorization: California condor limited take authorization.

(1) The California Endangered Species Act (CESA) prohibits the taking of an endangered or threatened species, except as specified. Under CESA, the Department of Fish and Wildlife may authorize, by permit, the take of listed species if the take is incidental to an otherwise lawful activity and the impacts are minimized and fully mitigated.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/17/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/20/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/23/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/20/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB2640 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/04/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 11–5 (pass) · lower
• AB 2640 WOOD Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 60–19 (pass) · lower
• AB 2640 WOOD Assembly Third Reading — 56–20 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–1 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2640 Wood By McGuire — 27–11 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Wood — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-15 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-16 From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
• 2018-03-08 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 11. Noes 2.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-05-09 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 5.) (May 9). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-05-10 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-05-14 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 56. Noes 20. Page 5164.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-05-15 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-05-24 Referred to Com. on N.R. & W. referral-committee
• 2018-06-19 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (June 12). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-20 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2018-07-02 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2018-07-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-23 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2018-08-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 11. Page 5941.). 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 60. Noes 19. Page 7005.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2018-09-20 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-20 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 586, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1b8a761f-a03e-4c87-9659-914b4ec4150e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).