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Bill	Oil and gas: idle wells.	Existing law establishes the Geologic Energy Management Division in the Department of Conservation, under the direction of the State Oil and Gas Supervisor, who is required to supervise the drilling, operation, maintenance, and abandonment of oil and gas wells, as provided. A person who violates or fails, neglects, or refuses to comply with any of the oil and gas laws is guilty of a crime.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 1866	California AB 1866 (20232024)	bill appropriation	Oil and gas idle wells	enacted	Hart	7	29	8	2024-01-18	2024-09-25	openstates	ocd-bill/71324192-bb25-4f75-a4ed-52c21c09d98b	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1866	a76ec5d78ab9255d944f96f587f5359ec3d99301d33f335fe808cd506817fb10	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1866 (20232024) — Oil and gas: idle wells.

Existing law establishes the Geologic Energy Management Division in the Department of Conservation, under the direction of the State Oil and Gas Supervisor, who is required to supervise the drilling, operation, maintenance, and abandonment of oil and gas wells, as provided. A person who violates or fails, neglects, or refuses to comply with any of the oil and gas laws is guilty of a crime.

Version chain

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

1. 01/18/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/11/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/12/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/23/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/25/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1866 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/03/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass — 4–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 1866 Hart Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 48–17 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 10–4 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1866 Hart et al. By Limón — 29–8 (pass) · upper
• AB 1866 Hart Assembly Third Reading — 49–17 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–3 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 6–4 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Hart — primary (person)
• Friedman — coauthor (person)
• Limón — coauthor (person)
• Smallwood-Cuevas — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-18 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2024-01-19 From printer. May be heard in committee February 18.
• 2024-01-29 Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2024-03-11 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-03-12 Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2024-03-20 Coauthors revised.
• 2024-03-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 3.) (March 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-04-10 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2024-05-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 4.) (May 16). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-21 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 49. Noes 17. Page 5397.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-05-22 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2024-05-29 Referred to Coms. on N.R. & W. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2024-06-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 6. Noes 4.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-06-12 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-06-13 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2024-06-13 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2024-06-24 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2024-08-15 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (August 15). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-08-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-23 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 7.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-28 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2024-08-29 Assembly Rule 77 suspended.
• 2024-08-29 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 48. Noes 17.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2024-09-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-25 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 548, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/71324192-bb25-4f75-a4ed-52c21c09d98b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).