republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/ab-1513.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Energy."
description: "Existing law creates the California Catastrophe Response Council, establishes the California Wildfire Safety Advisory Board, establishes the Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety, and establishes the Wildfire Safety Division of the Public Utilities Commission. Existing law provides mechanisms for electrical corporations to recover costs and expenses arising from covered wildfires, as defined, establishes the Wildfire Fund to pay eligible claims arising from a covered wildfire, and requires each electrical corporation, local publicly owned electric utility, and electrical cooperative to annually prepare and submit a wildfire mitigation plan."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 1513"
citation: "California AB 1513 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Energy."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Holden"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 34
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2019-02-22"
last_action: "2019-10-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5e636b52-b58f-4598-9b82-cf654fe47afa"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1513"
source_hash: "60e7323531262a7857645eccd0a6edf26163717ff891fc447b44da4f601d4d22"
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 1513 (20192020) — Energy.

Existing law creates the California Catastrophe Response Council, establishes the California Wildfire Safety Advisory Board, establishes the Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety, and establishes the Wildfire Safety Division of the Public Utilities Commission. Existing law provides mechanisms for electrical corporations to recover costs and expenses arising from covered wildfires, as defined, establishes the Wildfire Fund to pay eligible claims arising from a covered wildfire, and requires each electrical corporation, local publicly owned electric utility, and electrical cooperative to annually prepare and submit a wildfire mitigation plan.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/22/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1513&version=20190AB151399INT)
2. **03/25/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1513&version=20190AB151398AMD)
3. **05/07/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1513&version=20190AB151397AMD)
4. **09/06/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1513&version=20190AB151396AMD)
5. **10/02/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1513&version=20190AB151394CHP)
6. **AB1513** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1513)
7. **09/19/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1513&version=20190AB151395ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1513 Holden Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1513 Holden By Hill — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **12–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1513 Holden Consent Calendar Second Day — **74–0** (pass) · lower
- That the measure be returned to Senate Floor for consideration. Ordered to third reading. — **13–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent AB1513 — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Holden — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-22** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2019-02-23** From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
- **2019-02-25** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2019-03-14** Referred to Coms. on U. & E. and NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-25** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on U. & E. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-03-26** Re-referred to Com. on U. & E. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-01** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2019-05-06** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 1). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-05-07** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-08** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-13** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1638.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-14** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-05-22** Referred to Com. on E., U. & C. `referral-committee`
- **2019-07-02** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (July 2). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-07-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-08-19** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2019-08-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2244.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-08-22** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2019-08-26** Withdrawn from Engrossing and Enrolling.
- **2019-08-26** Ordered to the Senate.
- **2019-08-26** In Senate. Held at Desk.
- **2019-09-06** Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, passed, and to Assembly. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-09-06** Ordered to third reading.
- **2019-09-06** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-09** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-09-09** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(b). `referral-committee`
- **2019-09-09** From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on E., U. & C. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(b). (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) Re-referred to Com. on E., U. & C. `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-09-10** From committee: That the measure be returned to Senate Floor for consideration. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (September 10) `committee-passage`
- **2019-09-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2864.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-11** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2019-09-12** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 3497.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-09-25** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2019-10-02** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-10-02** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 396, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5e636b52-b58f-4598-9b82-cf654fe47afa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).