republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/ab-54.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Drinking water."
description: "(1) Existing law authorizes any corporation organized for or engaged in the business of selling, distributing, supplying, or delivering water for irrigation purposes, and requires any corporation organized for or engaged in the business of selling, distributing, supplying, or delivering water for domestic use, to provide in its articles or bylaws that water shall be sold, distributed, supplied, or delivered only to owners of its shares and that those shares are appurtenant to certain lands, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 54"
citation: "California AB 54 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Drinking water."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Solorio"]
version_count: 14
action_count: 39
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2010-12-06"
last_action: "2011-10-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/54b1b657-f198-44e9-bdfe-20f96e791d76"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB54"
source_hash: "ebe2017843531d266d7e520183d483052a2a84dfd20e669deec1cab581c70664"
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 54 (20112012) — Drinking water.

(1) Existing law authorizes any corporation organized for or engaged in the business of selling, distributing, supplying, or delivering water for irrigation purposes, and requires any corporation organized for or engaged in the business of selling, distributing, supplying, or delivering water for domestic use, to provide in its articles or bylaws that water shall be sold, distributed, supplied, or delivered only to owners of its shares and that those shares are appurtenant to certain lands, as specified.

## Version chain

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

1. **12/06/10 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB54&version=20110AB5499INT)
2. **03/29/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB54&version=20110AB5498AMD)
3. **04/04/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB54&version=20110AB5497AMD)
4. **04/14/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB54&version=20110AB5496AMD)
5. **05/19/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB54&version=20110AB5495AMD)
6. **05/31/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB54&version=20110AB5494AMD)
7. **06/22/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB54&version=20110AB5493AMD)
8. **07/11/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB54&version=20110AB5492AMD)
9. **08/22/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB54&version=20110AB5491AMD)
10. **08/24/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB54&version=20110AB5490AMD)
11. **08/30/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB54&version=20110AB5489AMD)
12. **10/07/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB54&version=20110AB5487CHP)
13. **AB54** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB54)
14. **09/19/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB54&version=20110AB5488ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **6–3** (pass) · lower
- AB 54 SOLORIO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **77–2** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials. — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB54 Solorio By Correa — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Governance and Finance. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 54 SOLORIO Assembly Third Reading — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **8–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Solorio — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2010-12-06** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2010-12-07** From printer. May be heard in committee January 6.
- **2011-01-24** Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and E.S. & T.M. `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-22** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2011-03-29** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-03-30** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-04** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2011-04-04** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-04-05** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-14** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E.S. & T.M. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 13). Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-04-14** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E.S. & T.M. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-04-25** Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-27** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (April 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-11** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2011-05-18** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2011-05-19** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-05-23** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-31** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 27). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-31** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-06-01** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-06-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1818.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-06-02** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2011-06-16** Referred to Coms. on E.Q. and GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-22** 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`
- **2011-06-27** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on GOV. & F. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-07-07** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 6). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-07-11** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-08-18** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (August 15). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-08-22** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-08-24** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-08-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-08-30** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-08-31** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-09-07** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2361.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-09-07** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2011-09-08** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 2. Page 3052.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2011-09-21** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2011-10-07** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2011-10-07** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 512, Statutes of 2011.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/54b1b657-f198-44e9-bdfe-20f96e791d76`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).