republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/ab-1123.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Safe Drinking and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986: appeal: notice to the Attorney General."
description: "The Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, an initiative measure approved by the voters as Proposition 65 at the November 4, 1986, statewide general election, prohibits a person, in the course of doing business, from knowingly and intentionally exposing any individual to a chemical known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity without giving a specified warning, or from knowingly discharging or releasing that chemical into water, or into or onto land and passing into any source of drinking water, except as specified. The act authorizes a person, acting in the public interest, to bring an action to enforce the requirements of the act if that person has given a notice of violation to the Attorney General, the district attorney and a city attorney or prosecutor in whose jurisdiction the violation is alleged to have occurred, and the alleged violator 60 days before the commencement of the action and neither the Attorney General nor a district attorney nor a city attorney or prosecutor has commenced and is diligently prosecuting an action against the alleged violator."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 1123"
citation: "California AB 1123 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Safe Drinking and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986: appeal: notice to the Attorney General."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Reyes"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2019-02-21"
last_action: "2019-08-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cf6667ad-5eab-49a6-8724-ddcea8b610b5"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1123"
source_hash: "07e549da21956f8cda98004ba800c0fec4b70a2cce98b7adc0d47b7a1643e1a3"
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 1123 (20192020) — Safe Drinking and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986: appeal: notice to the Attorney General.

The Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, an initiative measure approved by the voters as Proposition 65 at the November 4, 1986, statewide general election, prohibits a person, in the course of doing business, from knowingly and intentionally exposing any individual to a chemical known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity without giving a specified warning, or from knowingly discharging or releasing that chemical into water, or into or onto land and passing into any source of drinking water, except as specified. The act authorizes a person, acting in the public interest, to bring an action to enforce the requirements of the act if that person has given a notice of violation to the Attorney General, the district attorney and a city attorney or prosecutor in whose jurisdiction the violation is alleged to have occurred, and the alleged violator 60 days before the commencement of the action and neither the Attorney General nor a district attorney nor a city attorney or prosecutor has commenced and is diligently prosecuting an action against the alleged violator.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/21/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1123&version=20190AB112399INT)
2. **08/30/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1123&version=20190AB112397CHP)
3. **AB1123** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1123)
4. **08/20/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1123&version=20190AB112398ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **13–5** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- AB 1123 Reyes Assembly Third Reading — **58–19** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–3** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1123 Reyes By Wieckowski — **29–11** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Environmental Quality] — **7–2** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **6–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Reyes — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-21** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2019-02-22** From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
- **2019-03-07** Referred to Coms. on E.S. & T.M. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (March 26). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-02** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 3.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-24** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 5.) (April 24). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 58. Noes 19. Page 1465.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-02** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-05-16** Referred to Coms. on JUD. and EQ. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-11** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on EQ. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on EQ. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-20** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-07-08** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2019-07-09** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-08-19** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 11. Page 2202.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-08-19** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2019-08-22** Enrolled measure version corrected.
- **2019-08-23** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2019-08-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-08-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 187, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cf6667ad-5eab-49a6-8724-ddcea8b610b5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).