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Bill	Electricity: Westlands Water District.	The California Water District Law provides for the establishment of water districts and authorizes a district to construct, maintain, and operate plants for the generation of hydroelectric energy and transmission lines for the conveyance of the hydroelectric energy. Existing law merged the former West Plains Water Storage District into the Westlands Water District, and provides for the operation of the Westlands Water District.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 2661	California AB 2661 (20232024)	bill	Electricity Westlands Water District	enacted	Soria	8	31	8	2024-02-14	2024-09-25	openstates	ocd-bill/826ca5e9-768a-44ee-9ed5-0e2ccc243acf	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2661	d5543a601f2775a377dced8412c486e5490434d61f302029a91d5338bc6f1b44	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2661 (20232024) — Electricity: Westlands Water District.

The California Water District Law provides for the establishment of water districts and authorizes a district to construct, maintain, and operate plants for the generation of hydroelectric energy and transmission lines for the conveyance of the hydroelectric energy. Existing law merged the former West Plains Water Storage District into the Westlands Water District, and provides for the operation of the Westlands Water District.

Version chain

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

1. 02/14/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/21/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/24/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/16/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/23/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/25/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2661 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/05/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB2661 Soria By Hurtado — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2661 Soria Assembly Third Reading — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Natural Resources] — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2661 Soria Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Energy, Utilities and Communications] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 18–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Soria — 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.
• 2024-03-21 Referred to Coms. on U. & E. and NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2024-03-21 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on U. & E. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-03-28 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2024-04-01 Re-referred to Com. on U. & E. referral-committee
• 2024-04-15 Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Page 4775.)
• 2024-04-15 (Pending re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES.)
• 2024-04-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-04-23 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 22). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-04-24 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-04-25 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2024-05-08 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2024-05-16 Assembly Rule 63 suspended.
• 2024-05-16 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 16). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2024-05-16 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5606.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-05-24 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2024-06-05 Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and E., U. & C. referral-committee
• 2024-06-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E., U. & C. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on E., U. & C. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-07-02 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (July 2). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-07-03 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
• 2024-08-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2024-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-09-13 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 573, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/826ca5e9-768a-44ee-9ed5-0e2ccc243acf. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).