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type: "Bill"
title: "Natural resources: oil and gas: drilling."
description: "Existing law requires the owner of mineral rights in real property to give written notice to the owner or representative of the real property who is listed as the assessee on the current local assessment roll or as a lessee, and to any public utility that has a recorded interest in the real property if there is to be excavation of the utility interest, prior to the first entry upon the real property to prospect for, mine, or extract any mineral."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 1966"
citation: "California AB 1966 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Natural resources: oil and gas: drilling."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ma"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 27
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2012-02-23"
last_action: "2012-09-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/035008e4-c5c2-4e0c-9cf9-f40d60142c6f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1966"
source_hash: "5dcd7b109370fbfc5d61136807045ac46159ed71583ab2b5bf5eb2cab13dc6f6"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---
# California AB 1966 (20112012) — Natural resources: oil and gas: drilling.
Existing law requires the owner of mineral rights in real property to give written notice to the owner or representative of the real property who is listed as the assessee on the current local assessment roll or as a lessee, and to any public utility that has a recorded interest in the real property if there is to be excavation of the utility interest, prior to the first entry upon the real property to prospect for, mine, or extract any mineral.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/23/12 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1966&version=20110AB196699INT)
2. **06/15/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1966&version=20110AB196698AMD)
3. **06/21/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1966&version=20110AB196697AMD)
4. **08/24/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1966&version=20110AB196696AMD)
5. **09/25/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1966&version=20110AB196694CHP)
6. **AB1966** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1966)
7. **09/11/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1966&version=20110AB196695ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass. — **80** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **30** (pass) · upper
- AB 1966 MA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **771** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1966 Ma By Berryhill — **360** (pass) · upper
- AB 1966 MA Assembly Third Reading — **630** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Ma — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2012-02-23** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2012-02-24** From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
- **2012-03-08** Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2012-04-16** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2012-05-08** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (May 7). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-05-09** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-05-31** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 63. Noes 0. Page 5171.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-06-04** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2012-06-14** Referred to Com. on E.Q. `referral-committee`
- **2012-06-15** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E.Q. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2012-06-18** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2012-06-18** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2012-06-18** Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W. `referral-committee`
- **2012-06-19** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2012-06-19** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2012-06-21** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2012-06-21** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2012-07-05** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 3. Noes 0.) (July 3). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-07-06** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-08-24** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-08-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-08-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4928.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-08-31** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2012-08-31** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 1. Page 6760.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2012-09-13** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12:15 p.m.
- **2012-09-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2012-09-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 542, Statutes of 2012.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/035008e4-c5c2-4e0c-9cf9-f40d60142c6f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).