republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/ab-518.md

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Bill	Low-impact camping areas.	Existing law, the Special Occupancy Parks Act, establishes requirements for the construction, maintenance, occupancy, use, and design of special occupancy parks. Existing law defines "special occupancy park" to mean a recreational vehicle park, temporary recreational vehicle park, incidental camping area, or tent camp.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 518	California AB 518 (20252026)	bill	Low-impactcampingareas	enacted	Ward	9	24	7	2025-02-10	2025-10-01	openstates	ocd-bill/d39f89ca-9151-41d4-9ad2-cae08ee477d2	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB518	41e54ace9f3922404cf87b35c991f9c18b7565437a301936601f1311e19e3049	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 518 (20252026) — Low-impact camping areas.

Existing law, the Special Occupancy Parks Act, establishes requirements for the construction, maintenance, occupancy, use, and design of special occupancy parks. Existing law defines "special occupancy park" to mean a recreational vehicle park, temporary recreational vehicle park, incidental camping area, or tent camp.

Version chain

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

1. 02/10/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/21/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/07/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/23/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/17/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/29/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/01/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB518 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/12/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 518 Ward Assembly Third Reading — 63–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB518 Ward et al. By Limón — 35–1 (pass) · upper
• AB 518 Ward Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 67–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 10–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Rules] — 9–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ward — primary (person)
• Connolly — coauthor (person)
• Ortega — coauthor (person)
• Rogers — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-10 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-02-11 From printer. May be heard in committee March 13.
• 2025-02-24 Referred to Com. on H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2025-04-10 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 1.) (April 9). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2025-04-21 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-04-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-07 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-05-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 63. Noes 0. Page 1508.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-05-13 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-05-21 Referred to Com. on HOUSING. 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 HOUSING. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-07-16 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on RLS. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 15). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-07-17 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-08-20 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2025-08-25 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2025-08-29 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (August 29). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2025-08-29 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 1. Page 2660.). 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 67. Noes 0. Page 3220.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-22 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2025-10-01 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-01 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 157, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d39f89ca-9151-41d4-9ad2-cae08ee477d2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).