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Bill	Hazardous substances: contaminated property: fentanyl cleanup.	Existing law provides that a person who is found to have operated a site for the purpose of manufacturing an illegal controlled substance or the precursor of an illegal controlled substance is the generator of a hazardous substance at, or released from, the site that is subject to removal action by the Department of Toxic Substances Control.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 1596	California AB 1596 (20192020)	bill	Hazardous substances: contaminated property: fentanyl cleanup.	enacted	Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials	7	25	8	2019-02-22	2019-10-09	openstates	ocd-bill/fbe6453c-3587-48e4-9d60-1b19387b8872	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1596	90b93175b19f7bfdc9cbbc007215db3626b5bbb63fd00c9255e118241ac9c825	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1596 (20192020) — Hazardous substances: contaminated property: fentanyl cleanup.

Existing law provides that a person who is found to have operated a site for the purpose of manufacturing an illegal controlled substance or the precursor of an illegal controlled substance is the generator of a hazardous substance at, or released from, the site that is subject to removal action by the Department of Toxic Substances Control.

Version chain

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

1. 02/22/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/03/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/06/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/30/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/09/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1596 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/16/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1596 E.S. & T.M. Assembly Third Reading By QUIRK — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1596 E.S. & T.M. (Quirk) By Hill — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1596 E.S. & T.M. Concurrence in Senate Amendments By QUIRK — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-22 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2019-02-23 From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
• 2019-02-25 Read first time. reading-1
• 2019-03-18 Referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. referral-committee
• 2019-04-03 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E.S. & T.M. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-04 Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. referral-committee
• 2019-04-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-05-08 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-05-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (May 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1902.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-24 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-06-06 Referred to Com. on EQ. referral-committee
• 2019-06-06 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on EQ. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2019-06-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-07-01 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-08-30 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 30). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-08-30 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-06 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2607.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-06 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 8 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2019-09-10 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3248.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-23 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-10-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 691, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fbe6453c-3587-48e4-9d60-1b19387b8872. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).