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Bill	Flood management: Mossdale Tract.	Unless a city or county within the Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley makes certain findings after the effective date of specified amendments to its general plan, the Planning and Zoning Law prohibits a city or county from entering into a development agreement for property located in a flood hazard zone; approving a discretionary permit, ministerial permit, or other discretionary entitlement for a project that is located within a flood hazard zone, as specified; or approving a tentative map, or a parcel map for which a tentative map was not required, for a subdivision that is located within a flood hazard zone. Those findings include, among others, that the local flood management agency has made adequate progress on the construction of a flood protection system that will result in flood protection equal to or greater than the urban level of flood protection in urban or urbanizing areas. Existing law further requires urban and urbanizing areas protected by any levee that is part of the facilities of the State Plan of Flood Control to achieve the urban level of flood protection by 2025.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 838	California AB 838 (20192020)	bill	Flood management: Mossdale Tract.	enacted	Eggman	8	30	6	2019-02-20	2020-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/920fba94-d504-4618-8ead-e25c7910ffff	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB838	84cd5caee51333f04f3109600b09b85989862a27e87b6603f13f3a5088129e71	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 838 (20192020) — Flood management: Mossdale Tract.

Unless a city or county within the Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley makes certain findings after the effective date of specified amendments to its general plan, the Planning and Zoning Law prohibits a city or county from entering into a development agreement for property located in a flood hazard zone; approving a discretionary permit, ministerial permit, or other discretionary entitlement for a project that is located within a flood hazard zone, as specified; or approving a tentative map, or a parcel map for which a tentative map was not required, for a subdivision that is located within a flood hazard zone. Those findings include, among others, that the local flood management agency has made adequate progress on the construction of a flood protection system that will result in flood protection equal to or greater than the urban level of flood protection in urban or urbanizing areas. Existing law further requires urban and urbanizing areas protected by any levee that is part of the facilities of the State Plan of Flood Control to achieve the urban level of flood protection by 2025.

Version chain

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

1. 02/20/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/23/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/28/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/25/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/11/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/28/20 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB838 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/04/20 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 838 Eggman Concurrence in Senate Amendments By CALDERON — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB838 Eggman et al. By Galgiani — 30–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 838 Eggman Assembly Third Reading — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Eggman — primary (person)
• Galgiani — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-20 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
• 2019-03-04 Referred to Com. on AGRI. referral-committee
• 2019-03-28 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on AGRI. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-01 Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. referral-committee
• 2019-04-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-24 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-05-16 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2020-01-23 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (January 23). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2020-01-23 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-01-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-01-27 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 58. Noes 18. Page 3893.)
• 2020-01-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 3904.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-01-28 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2020-06-23 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2020-06-25 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2020-07-01 Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W. referral-committee
• 2020-08-10 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (August 5). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2020-08-11 Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-24 From Consent Calendar.
• 2020-08-24 Ordered to third reading.
• 2020-08-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 0. Page 4355.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-27 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2020-08-30 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2020-08-31 Action rescinded whereby the bill was re-referred to Com. on JUD. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2020-08-31 Ordered to the unfinished business file.
• 2020-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5480.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-09-14 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2020-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2020-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 208, Statutes of 2020.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/920fba94-d504-4618-8ead-e25c7910ffff. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).