republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/ab-355.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Water pollution: enforcement."
description: "Under the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act, the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the California regional water quality control boards (regional boards) are the principal state agencies with primary authority over water quality matters. The act authorizes a regional board to investigate the quality of state waters, and grants to a regional board certain authority in connection with those investigative functions. The act authorizes a regional board to administratively impose civil liability in connection with violations of certain water quality provisions, and authorizes the executive officer of a regional board to issue a complaint to any person on whom administrative civil liability may be imposed pursuant to the act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 355"
citation: "California AB 355 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Water pollution: enforcement."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chu"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 25
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-02-08"
last_action: "2017-10-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/88208601-8a5f-4ae2-b1ea-166448fe3ceb"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB355"
source_hash: "1094bcd3df98e7fb13c660ca49e2b9fdceaa3d611199aa96e168c0f6f66b061a"
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 355 (20172018) — Water pollution: enforcement.

Under the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act, the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the California regional water quality control boards (regional boards) are the principal state agencies with primary authority over water quality matters. The act authorizes a regional board to investigate the quality of state waters, and grants to a regional board certain authority in connection with those investigative functions. The act authorizes a regional board to administratively impose civil liability in connection with violations of certain water quality provisions, and authorizes the executive officer of a regional board to issue a complaint to any person on whom administrative civil liability may be imposed pursuant to the act.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/08/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB355&version=20170AB35599INT)
2. **03/16/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB355&version=20170AB35598AMD)
3. **03/28/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB355&version=20170AB35597AMD)
4. **06/07/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB355&version=20170AB35596AMD)
5. **10/06/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB355&version=20170AB35594CHP)
6. **AB355** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB355)
7. **09/15/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB355&version=20170AB35595ENR)

## Sponsors

- Chu — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-08** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2017-02-09** From printer. May be heard in committee March 11.
- **2017-02-21** Referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-16** 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`
- **2017-03-20** Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-28** 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`
- **2017-03-29** Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-05** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 4). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-04-26** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 26). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-04-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-05-08** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 2. Page 1419.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-05-08** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2017-05-18** Referred to Com. on EQ. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-01** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2017-06-07** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on EQ. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction`
- **2017-06-21** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-07-10** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2017-09-01** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (September 1). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-09-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-09-13** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2851.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-09-14** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2017-09-14** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 1. Page 3393.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2017-09-25** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m.
- **2017-10-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-10-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 524, Statutes of 2017.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/88208601-8a5f-4ae2-b1ea-166448fe3ceb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).