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Bill	Public resources: conservation.	(1) Existing law prohibits a conservation bank, mitigation bank, or conservation and mitigation bank from being operative, vested, or final unless the Department of Fish and Wildlife has approved the bank in writing and, if applicable, a conservation easement has been recorded on the site. Existing law requires a person interested in establishing any bank with the department to submit a bank prospectus to the department, as specified, and if the department determines the bank prospectus is acceptable, allows the person to submit a bank agreement package that, among other things, is required to contain estimates of financial assurances and proposed forms of security, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 1520	California AB 1520 (20252026)	bill	Publicresources conservation	enacted	Committee on Water, Parks, and Wildlife	9	29	8	2025-03-13	2025-10-06	openstates	ocd-bill/a4aab95d-dd0c-4cbd-a800-698c26c608c3	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1520	1d0c07b0c6d32fca7d6a6ef2632d8b0121f1264e691e22b5bb6fca8900cfba69	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1520 (20252026) — Public resources: conservation.

(1) Existing law prohibits a conservation bank, mitigation bank, or conservation and mitigation bank from being operative, vested, or final unless the Department of Fish and Wildlife has approved the bank in writing and, if applicable, a conservation easement has been recorded on the site. Existing law requires a person interested in establishing any bank with the department to submit a bank prospectus to the department, as specified, and if the department determines the bank prospectus is acceptable, allows the person to submit a bank agreement package that, among other things, is required to contain estimates of financial assurances and proposed forms of security, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 03/13/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/22/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/23/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/14/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/18/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/05/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/06/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB1520 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/12/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1520 W., P. & W. Assembly Third Reading By PAPAN — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1520 W., P., & W. (Papan) By Limón — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1520 W., P. & W. Concurrence in Senate Amendments By PAPAN — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 14–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Committee on Water, Parks, and Wildlife — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-03-13 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-03-14 From printer. May be heard in committee April 13.
• 2025-03-24 Referred to Com. on W. P., & W. referral-committee
• 2025-04-22 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on W. P., & W. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-04-23 Re-referred to Com. on W. P., & W. referral-committee
• 2025-04-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-05-14 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2025-05-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 23). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-06-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1999.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-06-04 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-06-18 Referred to Com. on N.R. & W. referral-committee
• 2025-06-23 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-07-10 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 8). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-07-14 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-08-07 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2025-08-18 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-08-18 (Ayes 27. Noes 0. Page 2172.)
• 2025-08-25 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2025-08-29 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-08-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-05 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2735.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-09-10 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3208.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-22 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2025-10-06 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 401, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a4aab95d-dd0c-4cbd-a800-698c26c608c3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).