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type: "Bill"
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title: "State Water Resources Control Board: Administrative Hearings Office."
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description: "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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20172018"
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identifier: "AB 747"
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citation: "California AB 747 (20172018)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["State Water Resources Control Board: Administrative Hearings Office."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Caballero"]
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version_count: 10
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action_count: 40
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vote_count: 4
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first_action: "2017-02-15"
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last_action: "2018-09-22"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/51e9e68e-0e74-472a-921c-8a4cf0b92ead"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB747"
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source_hash: "7252a7be8e8ec0cbaee6c64f34376966fc48c56e043963eb69f049da9b1200ba"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 747 (20172018) — State Water Resources Control Board: Administrative Hearings Office.
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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.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/15/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB747&version=20170AB74799INT)
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2. **04/24/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB747&version=20170AB74798AMD)
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3. **05/15/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB747&version=20170AB74797AMD)
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4. **08/20/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB747&version=20170AB74794AMD)
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5. **08/28/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB747&version=20170AB74793AMD)
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6. **08/29/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB747&version=20170AB74796AMD)
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7. **09/08/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB747&version=20170AB74795AMD)
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8. **09/22/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB747&version=20170AB74791CHP)
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9. **AB747** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB747)
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10. **09/05/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB747&version=20170AB74792ENR)
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## Votes
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- AB 747 Caballero Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **69–5** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- 3rd Reading AB747 Caballero By Hertzberg — **39–0** (pass) · upper
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- With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — **12–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Caballero — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2017-02-15** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2017-02-16** From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
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- **2017-03-02** Referred to Coms. on REV. & TAX. and L. GOV. `referral-committee`
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- **2017-03-27** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
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- **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`
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- **2017-04-25** Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. `referral-committee`
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- **2017-04-27** Re-referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and REV. & TAX. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. `referral-committee`
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- **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`
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- **2017-05-11** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (May 8). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
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- **2017-05-15** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
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- **2017-05-16** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2017-05-26** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 61. Noes 11. Page 1711.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2017-05-26** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2017-06-08** Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
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- **2017-07-05** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 5). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2017-07-06** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2017-07-10** From Consent Calendar.
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- **2017-07-10** Ordered to third reading.
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- **2017-08-29** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
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- **2017-08-30** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2017-08-31** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(c). `referral-committee`
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- **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`
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- **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`
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- **2018-08-27** Joint Rule 61 suspended. (Ayes 28. Noes 10. Page 5777.)
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- **2018-08-27** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Ayes 26. Noes 13. Page 5779.)
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- **2018-08-27** Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W. `referral-committee`
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- **2018-08-28** Senate Rule 29.3(b) suspended. (Ayes 28. Noes 11. Page 5853.)
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- **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`
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- **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`
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- **2018-08-29** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (August 29). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2018-08-30** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2018-08-31** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 6090.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2018-08-31** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
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- **2018-08-31** Re-referred to Com. on W.,P., & W. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. `referral-committee`
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- **2018-08-31** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended.
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- **2018-08-31** From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (August 31). `committee-passage`
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- **2018-08-31** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 69. Noes 5.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
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- **2018-09-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
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- **2018-09-22** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2018-09-22** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 668, Statutes of 2018.
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/51e9e68e-0e74-472a-921c-8a4cf0b92ead`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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