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Bill	State Water Resources Control Board: Administrative Hearings Office.	Existing law declares that the diversion or use of water other than as authorized by specified provisions of law is a trespass. Existing law authorizes the executive director of the State Water Resources Control Board to issue a complaint to a person who violates certain use and diversion of water provisions and subjects the violator to administrative civil liability. Existing law also authorizes the board to issue an order to a person to cease and desist from violating, or threatening to violate, certain requirements relating to water use, including diverting or using water, other than as authorized.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 747	California AB 747 (20172018)	bill	State Water Resources Control Board: Administrative Hearings Office.	enacted	Caballero	10	40	4	2017-02-15	2018-09-22	openstates	ocd-bill/51e9e68e-0e74-472a-921c-8a4cf0b92ead	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB747	7252a7be8e8ec0cbaee6c64f34376966fc48c56e043963eb69f049da9b1200ba	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 747 (20172018) — State Water Resources Control Board: Administrative Hearings Office.

Existing law declares that the diversion or use of water other than as authorized by specified provisions of law is a trespass. Existing law authorizes the executive director of the State Water Resources Control Board to issue a complaint to a person who violates certain use and diversion of water provisions and subjects the violator to administrative civil liability. Existing law also authorizes the board to issue an order to a person to cease and desist from violating, or threatening to violate, certain requirements relating to water use, including diverting or using water, other than as authorized.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/24/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/15/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/20/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/28/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/29/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/08/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/22/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB747 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/05/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 747 Caballero Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 69–5 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB747 Caballero By Hertzberg — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — 12–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Caballero — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-15 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2017-02-16 From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
• 2017-03-02 Referred to Coms. on REV. & TAX. and L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2017-03-27 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2017-04-24 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on REV. & TAX. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-04-25 Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. referral-committee
• 2017-04-27 Re-referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and REV. & TAX. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. referral-committee
• 2017-05-04 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on REV. & TAX. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (May 3). Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-05-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (May 8). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-05-15 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-05-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 61. Noes 11. Page 1711.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-06-08 Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2017-07-05 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 5). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-07-06 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-07-10 From Consent Calendar.
• 2017-07-10 Ordered to third reading.
• 2017-08-29 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2017-08-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-08-31 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(c). referral-committee
• 2017-09-08 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-08-20 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-08-27 Joint Rule 61 suspended. (Ayes 28. Noes 10. Page 5777.)
• 2018-08-27 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Ayes 26. Noes 13. Page 5779.)
• 2018-08-27 Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W. referral-committee
• 2018-08-28 Senate Rule 29.3(b) suspended. (Ayes 28. Noes 11. Page 5853.)
• 2018-08-28 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
• 2018-08-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (August 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-08-29 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (August 29). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-08-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 6090.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2018-08-31 Re-referred to Com. on W.,P., & W. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2018-08-31 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended.
• 2018-08-31 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (August 31). committee-passage
• 2018-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 69. Noes 5.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2018-09-22 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-22 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 668, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/51e9e68e-0e74-472a-921c-8a4cf0b92ead. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).