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Bill	Hunting: navigable waters.	Existing law makes it unlawful to enter land for the purpose of discharging a firearm or taking or destroying any mammal or bird, including waterfowl, on that land, without having first obtained written permission from the owner, the owner's agent, or the person in lawful possession of that land, if either of the following applies: (1) the land belongs to, or is occupied by, another person and is either under cultivation or enclosed by a fence, or (2) there are signs forbidding trespass or hunting or both displayed at intervals not less than 3 to the mile along all exterior boundaries and at all roads and trails entering those lands, including land temporarily inundated by water flowing outside the established banks of a waterway.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 1226	California SB 1226 (20232024)	bill	Hunting navigable waters	enacted	Cortese	4	21	5	2024-02-15	2024-08-19	openstates	ocd-bill/9651e002-43cd-43a1-8fed-ca4acd2ffa13	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1226	ee2a7ccccc33a040b72795a87fb6323853f1bd6b78b06eb1fc9256c895dfa85c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 1226 (20232024) — Hunting: navigable waters.

Existing law makes it unlawful to enter land for the purpose of discharging a firearm or taking or destroying any mammal or bird, including waterfowl, on that land, without having first obtained written permission from the owner, the owner's agent, or the person in lawful possession of that land, if either of the following applies: (1) the land belongs to, or is occupied by, another person and is either under cultivation or enclosed by a fence, or (2) there are signs forbidding trespass or hunting or both displayed at intervals not less than 3 to the mile along all exterior boundaries and at all roads and trails entering those lands, including land temporarily inundated by water flowing outside the established banks of a waterway.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 08/19/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. SB1226 (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/09/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar 2nd — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 1226 Cortese Senate Third Reading By Soria — 71–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 10–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Cortese — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-15 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2024-02-16 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17.
• 2024-02-29 Referred to Com. on N.R. & W. referral-committee
• 2024-04-02 Set for hearing April 15.
• 2024-04-16 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 3608.) (April 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-04-22 Set for hearing April 29.
• 2024-04-29 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2024-04-30 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-02 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 3831.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-05-02 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2024-05-13 Referred to Com. on W., P., & W. referral-committee
• 2024-06-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-06-19 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-06-20 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-06-20 From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Santiago.
• 2024-06-20 Ordered to third reading.
• 2024-08-08 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 6243.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-08 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2024-08-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2024-08-19 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-08-19 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 186, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9651e002-43cd-43a1-8fed-ca4acd2ffa13. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).