republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-2599.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Water: public beaches: discontinuation of residential water service."
description: "Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health, by regulation, to establish, maintain, and amend as necessary minimum standards for the sanitation of public beaches, as provided. Existing law requires the regulations to do certain things, including requiring the testing of the waters adjacent to all public beaches for microbiological contaminants, as provided. Existing law authorizes a local health officer to meet the testing requirements by utilizing test results from other parties conducting microbiological contamination testing of the waters under their jurisdiction."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 2599"
citation: "California AB 2599 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Water", "discontinuation of residential water service", "public beaches"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 26
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2024-02-14"
last_action: "2024-09-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6ad0f5ec-8970-4bb9-b820-8fc2035ba8a9"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2599"
source_hash: "936f5a4f7666d2485edb8b0fcdc69398b5495215a15bfd06ed39bafe757291a6"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 2599 (20232024) — Water: public beaches: discontinuation of residential water service.

Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health, by regulation, to establish, maintain, and amend as necessary minimum standards for the sanitation of public beaches, as provided. Existing law requires the regulations to do certain things, including requiring the testing of the waters adjacent to all public beaches for microbiological contaminants, as provided. Existing law authorizes a local health officer to meet the testing requirements by utilizing test results from other parties conducting microbiological contamination testing of the waters under their jurisdiction.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/14/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2599&version=20230AB259999INT)
2. **03/06/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2599&version=20230AB259998AMD)
3. **05/21/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2599&version=20230AB259997AMD)
4. **08/07/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2599&version=20230AB259996AMD)
5. **09/22/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2599&version=20230AB259994CHP)
6. **AB2599** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2599)
7. **08/28/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2599&version=20230AB259995ENR)

## Votes

- AB 2599 Environmental Safety and Concurrence in Senate Amendments By GARCIA — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB2599 E.S. & T.M. (Garcia) By Allen — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Health] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2599 Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Consent Calendar Second Day — **72–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2024-02-15** From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
- **2024-03-04** Referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-06** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E.S. & T.M. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-03-07** Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-10** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 10). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-11** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-04-18** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-04-18** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2024-05-01** Referred to Coms. on E.Q. and HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-21** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E.Q. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-05** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 5). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-20** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-07-01** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2024-07-02** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-05** From Consent Calendar.
- **2024-08-05** Ordered to third reading.
- **2024-08-07** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-19** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5207.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-20** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 22 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2024-08-26** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6498.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-09-03** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2024-09-22** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-09-22** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 411, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6ad0f5ec-8970-4bb9-b820-8fc2035ba8a9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).