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Bill	Oil and gas: wells and facilities: abandonment and decommissioning: reporting and inspections.	Under existing law, the Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources in the Department of Conservation regulates the drilling, operation, maintenance, and abandonment of oil and gas wells in the state. Existing law requires the department to report on October 1, 2020, to the Legislature on the number of hazardous wells, idle-deserted wells, deserted facilities, and hazardous facilities remaining, the estimated costs of abandoning or decommissioning those wells and facilities, and a timeline for future abandonment and decommissioning of those wells and facilities with a specific schedule of goals.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	SB 551	California SB 551 (20192020)	bill	Oil and gas: wells and facilities: abandonment and decommissioning: reporting and inspections.	enacted	Jackson	8	33	8	2019-02-22	2019-10-12	openstates	ocd-bill/5dfd8111-228c-4a33-aadc-25e1a5d0a8a7	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB551	b307780343c8248d98afb68894dc5b5554a7f07ffab577667040197650a6080a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 551 (20192020) — Oil and gas: wells and facilities: abandonment and decommissioning: reporting and inspections.

Under existing law, the Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources in the Department of Conservation regulates the drilling, operation, maintenance, and abandonment of oil and gas wells in the state. Existing law requires the department to report on October 1, 2020, to the Legislature on the number of hazardous wells, idle-deserted wells, deserted facilities, and hazardous facilities remaining, the estimated costs of abandoning or decommissioning those wells and facilities, and a timeline for future abandonment and decommissioning of those wells and facilities with a specific schedule of goals.

Version chain

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

1. 02/22/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/17/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/12/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/03/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/05/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/12/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB551 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/16/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–3 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB551 Jackson Concurrence — 29–11 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 22–13 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 4–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 13–5 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–3 (pass) · upper
• SB 551 Jackson Senate Third Reading By Muratsuchi — 50–17 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jackson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-22 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2019-02-25 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 27.
• 2019-02-25 Read first time. reading-1
• 2019-03-07 Referred to Com. on N.R. & W. referral-committee
• 2019-03-13 Set for hearing April 9.
• 2019-04-01 April 9 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2019-04-02 Set for hearing April 23.
• 2019-04-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 3. Page 778.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-26 Set for hearing May 6.
• 2019-05-06 May 6 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2019-05-10 Set for hearing May 16.
• 2019-05-17 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 4. Noes 2. Page 1102.) (May 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2019-05-17 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-29 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 22. Noes 13. Page 1353.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-29 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2019-06-06 Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2019-06-24 June 24 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2019-06-25 July 1 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2019-07-11 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 3.) (July 8). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2019-08-12 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-21 August 21 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2019-08-30 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 5.) (August 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2019-09-03 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-04 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-05 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-05 Ordered to third reading.
• 2019-09-10 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 50. Noes 17. Page 3339.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-10 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2019-09-12 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 29. Noes 11. Page 2903.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-19 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2019-10-12 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-12 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 774, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5dfd8111-228c-4a33-aadc-25e1a5d0a8a7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).