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Bill	Oil and gas: enforcement: penalties.	(1) 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.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 631	California AB 631 (20232024)	bill	Oil and gas enforcement penalties	enacted	Hart	10	34	9	2023-02-09	2023-10-07	openstates	ocd-bill/2d0f20aa-c635-41b0-b5fa-43d5894de1e8	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB631	2d1d1d3b816808ec631d0af3d5b05ca14bdb12273fa51c02e56192589c637cf2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 631 (20232024) — Oil and gas: enforcement: penalties.

(1) 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.

Version chain

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

1. 02/09/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/23/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/06/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/26/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/03/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/01/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/07/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 10/07/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB631 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/18/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety] — 7–3 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 11–4 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB631 Hart et al. By Allen — 29–9 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–3 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 4–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 631 Hart Assembly Third Reading — 50–19 (pass) · lower
• AB 631 Hart Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 53–19 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 8–3 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Hart — primary (person)
• Addis — coauthor (person)
• Muratsuchi — 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.
• 2023-03-23 Referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2023-03-23 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
• 2023-03-27 Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2023-04-06 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
• 2023-04-07 Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2023-04-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 8. Noes 3.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-04-25 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 3.) (April 25). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-04-26 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-04-27 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2023-05-10 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-05-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (May 18). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 50. Noes 19. Page 2063.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-06-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2023-06-14 Referred to Coms. on N.R. & W. and PUB S. referral-committee
• 2023-06-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB S. (Ayes 7. Noes 3.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on PUB S. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-07-03 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on PUB S. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-07-05 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2023-07-05 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2023-07-05 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2023-08-14 In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-09-01 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (September 1). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2023-09-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-07 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 9. Page 2633.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-12 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2023-09-13 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 53. Noes 19. Page 3415.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2023-10-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 337, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2d0f20aa-c635-41b0-b5fa-43d5894de1e8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).