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Bill	California Endangered Species Act.	(1) Existing law, the California Endangered Species Act, prohibits the taking of an endangered or threatened species, except in certain situations. Under the act, the Department of Fish and Wildlife may authorize the take of listed species pursuant to an incidental take permit if the take is incidental to an otherwise lawful activity, the impacts are minimized and fully mitigated, and the issuance of the permit would not jeopardize the continued existence of the species. The act requires the department to adopt regulations for issuance of incidental take permits.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	SB 473	California SB 473 (20172018)	bill	California Endangered Species Act.	enacted	Hertzberg	10	36	8	2017-02-16	2018-09-10	openstates	ocd-bill/944413fb-51e8-448f-8864-0d79aa0b12f5	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB473	27e429e1ddb8536fbe844e15399bc85f609880a2b270c6777e3557cc263f8af5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 473 (20172018) — California Endangered Species Act.

(1) Existing law, the California Endangered Species Act, prohibits the taking of an endangered or threatened species, except in certain situations. Under the act, the Department of Fish and Wildlife may authorize the take of listed species pursuant to an incidental take permit if the take is incidental to an otherwise lawful activity, the impacts are minimized and fully mitigated, and the issuance of the permit would not jeopardize the continued existence of the species. The act requires the department to adopt regulations for issuance of incidental take permits.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/22/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/26/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/03/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/16/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/21/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/05/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/10/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. SB473 (committee substitute) — source
10. 08/28/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Unfinished Business SB473 Hertzberg Concurrence — 26–10 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–6 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 11–5 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–1 (pass) · upper
• SB 473 Hertzberg Senate Third Reading By AGUIAR-CURRY — 50–25 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 28–11 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Hertzberg — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-16 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2017-02-17 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
• 2017-03-02 Referred to Com. on N.R. & W. referral-committee
• 2017-03-07 Set for hearing March 28.
• 2017-03-22 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-03-24 Set for hearing March 28.
• 2017-03-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (March 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-04-05 Set for hearing April 17.
• 2017-04-17 April 17 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2017-05-19 Set for hearing May 25.
• 2017-05-25 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1185.) (May 25). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2017-05-26 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-05-26 Published May 26 at 10 a.m.
• 2017-05-31 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 28. Noes 11. Page 1327.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-06-01 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2017-06-12 Referred to Com. on W.,P., & W. referral-committee
• 2017-07-03 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on W.,P., & W. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-07-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 6.) (July 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-08-21 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-08-30 August 30 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2017-09-01 Joint Rule 62(a) suspended.
• 2017-09-01 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 5.) (September 1). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-05 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-09-06 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-08 Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Calderon.
• 2018-08-09 Notice of intention to remove from inactive file given by Assembly Member Calderon.
• 2018-08-13 From inactive file.
• 2018-08-13 Ordered to third reading.
• 2018-08-16 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2018-08-16 Ordered to third reading.
• 2018-08-23 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 50. Noes 25. Page 6478.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-23 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2018-08-24 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 26. Noes 10. Page 5687.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-08-30 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
• 2018-09-10 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-10 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 329, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/944413fb-51e8-448f-8864-0d79aa0b12f5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).