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Bill	Water rights: water management.	Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board administers a water rights program pursuant to which the board grants permits and licenses to appropriate water. Existing law allows a person who has an urgent need to divert and use water to apply for, and the board to issue, a temporary permit, as prescribed. Existing law requires an applicant to pay an application fee and a permit fee, if a temporary permit is issued, both computed as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 658	California AB 658 (20192020)	bill	Water rights: water management.	enacted	Arambula	7	26	8	2019-02-15	2019-10-09	openstates	ocd-bill/d0fc24af-324d-4306-8ee9-42beae22c290	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB658	902ab7cfe8fee5d6d5430cabed4c35e029c435c6e1c1892a602fd248fa975003	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 658 (20192020) — Water rights: water management.

Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board administers a water rights program pursuant to which the board grants permits and licenses to appropriate water. Existing law allows a person who has an urgent need to divert and use water to apply for, and the board to issue, a temporary permit, as prescribed. Existing law requires an applicant to pay an application fee and a permit fee, if a temporary permit is issued, both computed as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/02/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/28/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/11/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/09/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB658 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/17/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 658 Arambula Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB658 Arambula et al. By Caballero — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 658 Arambula Assembly Third Reading — 67–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Arambula — primary (person)
• Caballero — coauthor (person)
• Eduardo Garcia — author (person)
• Stern — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-15 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2019-02-25 Referred to Com. on W., P., & W. referral-committee
• 2019-03-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (March 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-02 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-03 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2019-04-24 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-05-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 67. Noes 0. Page 2028.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-29 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-06-06 Referred to Com. on N.R. & W. referral-committee
• 2019-06-28 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. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2019-07-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 9). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-07-11 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-12 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-08-30 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-08-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-04 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2019-09-09 Ordered to third reading.
• 2019-09-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2828.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-11 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2019-09-12 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3481.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-24 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 678, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d0fc24af-324d-4306-8ee9-42beae22c290. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).