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Bill	Water: permits and licenses: temporary changes: water or water rights transfers.	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 authorizes a permittee or licensee to temporarily change the point of diversion, place of use, or purpose of use due to a transfer or exchange of water or water rights if the transfer would only involve the amount of water that would have been consumptively used or stored by the permittee or licensee in the absence of the proposed temporary change, would not injure any legal user of the water, and would not unreasonably affect fish, wildlife, or other instream beneficial uses.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 2895	California AB 2895 (20212022)	bill	Water: permits and licenses: temporary changes: water or water rights transfers.	enacted	Arambula	9	27	6	2022-02-18	2022-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/e8cd96c9-fef3-4248-aae3-f2986721dda5	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2895	512a54b81cee991101697532936794db82149c2d23edae8fb77fcaf8ffa70d7d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2895 (20212022) — Water: permits and licenses: temporary changes: water or water rights transfers.

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 authorizes a permittee or licensee to temporarily change the point of diversion, place of use, or purpose of use due to a transfer or exchange of water or water rights if the transfer would only involve the amount of water that would have been consumptively used or stored by the permittee or licensee in the absence of the proposed temporary change, would not injure any legal user of the water, and would not unreasonably affect fish, wildlife, or other instream beneficial uses.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/17/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/27/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/09/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/23/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/22/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/28/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB2895 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/01/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2895 Arambula Assembly Third Reading — 50–19 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2895 Arambula By Dodd — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2895 Arambula Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 69–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 12–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Arambula — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-18 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2022-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2022-03-17 Referred to Com. on W.,P., & W. referral-committee
• 2022-03-17 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on W.,P., & W. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-03-21 Re-referred to Com. on W.,P., & W. referral-committee
• 2022-04-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 26). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-04-27 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-04-28 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2022-05-11 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2022-05-19 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 2.) (May 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-05-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 50. Noes 19.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-27 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2022-06-08 Referred to Com. on N.R. & W. referral-committee
• 2022-06-09 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. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-06-22 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 20). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-06-23 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-08-01 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2022-08-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-22 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5234.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-30 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2022-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 69. Noes 1.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2022-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 675, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e8cd96c9-fef3-4248-aae3-f2986721dda5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).