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type: "Bill"
title: "Excavations: regional notification center system: contractor certification."
description: "Existing law generally requires any person planning to conduct an excavation to contact a regional notification center prior to excavation, and, if practical, to delineate the areas to be excavated. Existing law authorizes the Attorney General, a district attorney, or the state or a local agency that issued a permit to excavate to bring an action for the enforcement of a civil penalty against an operator or excavator who negligently or knowingly and willfully violates the requirements of these and related provisions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 811"
citation: "California AB 811 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Excavations: regional notification center system: contractor certification."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lowenthal"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 24
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2013-02-21"
last_action: "2013-09-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/db5afeba-d316-4552-961e-65d2a1ad8e46"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB811"
source_hash: "a7d2a3de94894de40ff53753c6bc47024e9d88f3c77649035ee50163e0e13a60"
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 811 (20132014) — Excavations: regional notification center system: contractor certification.
Existing law generally requires any person planning to conduct an excavation to contact a regional notification center prior to excavation, and, if practical, to delineate the areas to be excavated. Existing law authorizes the Attorney General, a district attorney, or the state or a local agency that issued a permit to excavate to bring an action for the enforcement of a civil penalty against an operator or excavator who negligently or knowingly and willfully violates the requirements of these and related provisions.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/21/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB811&version=20130AB81199INT)
2. **04/02/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB811&version=20130AB81198AMD)
3. **04/09/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB811&version=20130AB81197AMD)
4. **06/03/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB811&version=20130AB81196AMD)
5. **09/06/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB811&version=20130AB81194CHP)
6. **AB811** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB811)
7. **08/23/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB811&version=20130AB81195ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **120** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **380** (pass) · upper
- AB 811 LOWENTHAL Consent Calendar Second Day — **750** (pass) · lower
- AB 811 LOWENTHAL Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **770** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — **70** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Lowenthal — primary (person)
- Hill — principal coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2013-02-21** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2013-02-22** From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
- **2013-03-04** Referred to Coms. on JUD. and B.,P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-02** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-04-03** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-09** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2013-04-09** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-04-10** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-11** Re-referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. `referral-committee`
- **2013-05-07** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 7). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-05-08** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-05-13** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1409.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-05-13** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2013-05-23** Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2013-06-03** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-06-04** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2013-07-03** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 3). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-07-08** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-08-15** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1844.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-08-15** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 17 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2013-08-19** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2584.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2013-08-26** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:15 p.m.
- **2013-09-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2013-09-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 250, Statutes of 2013.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/db5afeba-d316-4552-961e-65d2a1ad8e46`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).