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Bill	California Endangered Species Act: accidental take: farms or ranches.	Existing law, the California Endangered Species Act, prohibits the taking of an endangered or candidate species, except as provided. Under the act, the Department of Fish and Wildlife may authorize the take of listed species pursuant to an incidental take permit if the take is incidental to an otherwise lawful activity, the impacts are minimized and fully mitigated, and the issuance of the permit would not jeopardize the continued existence of the species. The act requires the department to adopt regulations for the issuance of incidental take permits. Existing law also generally provides that a violation of the Fish and Game Code is a crime.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 606	California AB 606 (20232024)	bill	California Endangered Species Act accidental take farms or ranches	enacted	Mathis	5	23	8	2023-02-09	2023-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/7994bf2d-a2d5-4224-8026-49411a0b09a3	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB606	b693eb1581c441e7d3e250fd5330e94bdaca5e2901feb2d45a4b25b62d4221ed	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 606 (20232024) — California Endangered Species Act: accidental take: farms or ranches.

Existing law, the California Endangered Species Act, prohibits the taking of an endangered or candidate species, except as provided. Under the act, the Department of Fish and Wildlife may authorize the take of listed species pursuant to an incidental take permit if the take is incidental to an otherwise lawful activity, the impacts are minimized and fully mitigated, and the issuance of the permit would not jeopardize the continued existence of the species. The act requires the department to adopt regulations for the issuance of incidental take permits. Existing law also generally provides that a violation of the Fish and Game Code is a crime.

Version chain

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

1. 02/09/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/26/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 10/08/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB606 (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/18/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Special Consent AB606 Mathis et al. By Dodd — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 606 Mathis Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 606 Mathis Consent Calendar Second Day — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 14–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Mathis — primary (person)
• Dixon — coauthor (person)
• Dodd — coauthor (person)
• Megan Dahle — coauthor (person)
• Niello — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-09 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2023-02-10 From printer. May be heard in committee March 12.
• 2023-02-17 Referred to Com. on W., P., & W. referral-committee
• 2023-03-28 Coauthors revised.
• 2023-03-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (March 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-04-19 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-20 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-04-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1363.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-04-27 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2023-05-10 Referred to Com. on N.R. & W. referral-committee
• 2023-06-07 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2023-06-22 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 22). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-06-26 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-07-10 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-09-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (September 1). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-08 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2023-09-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2686.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-12 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2023-09-14 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 3564.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-21 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2023-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 447, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7994bf2d-a2d5-4224-8026-49411a0b09a3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).