republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/ab-3163.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Energy: biomethane: procurement."
description: "Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including gas corporations. Existing law requires the commission, in consultation with the State Air Resources Board, to consider adopting specific biomethane procurement targets or goals for each gas corporation so that each gas corporation procures a proportionate share, as determined by the commission, of biomethane annually, as specified. Existing law defines \"biomethane\" for that purpose as biogas that meets specified standards adopted by the commission for injection into a common carrier pipeline."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 3163"
citation: "California AB 3163 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Energy: biomethane: procurement."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Salas"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2020-02-21"
last_action: "2020-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3c9dc1c5-e431-47cb-9b6c-e623177eb4d2"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB3163"
source_hash: "a751357377e6440c4df565ef627e0b04063672c80134179b73f72f15a51fd07e"
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 3163 (20192020) — Energy: biomethane: procurement.

Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including gas corporations. Existing law requires the commission, in consultation with the State Air Resources Board, to consider adopting specific biomethane procurement targets or goals for each gas corporation so that each gas corporation procures a proportionate share, as determined by the commission, of biomethane annually, as specified. Existing law defines "biomethane" for that purpose as biogas that meets specified standards adopted by the commission for injection into a common carrier pipeline.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/21/20 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB3163&version=20190AB316399INT)
2. **05/05/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB3163&version=20190AB316398AMD)
3. **09/30/20 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB3163&version=20190AB316396CHP)
4. **AB3163** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB3163)
5. **08/31/20 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB3163&version=20190AB316397ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–2** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **11–1** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **12–2** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB3163 Salas et al. By Hueso — **31–7** (pass) · upper
- AB 3163 Salas Assembly Third Reading — **52–11** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Salas — primary (person)
- Dahle — coauthor (person)
- Galgiani — coauthor (person)
- Mathis — coauthor (person)
- Nielsen — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-21** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2020-02-22** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- **2020-02-24** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2020-03-09** Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-05** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-05-06** Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-14** Coauthors revised.
- **2020-05-14** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (May 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-06-02** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 2.) (June 2). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2020-06-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-06-08** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 52. Noes 11. Page 4693.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-06-09** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2020-06-23** Referred to Com. on E., U. & C. `referral-committee`
- **2020-08-04** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (August 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-08-13** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2020-08-20** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 20). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2020-08-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-08-28** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 7. Page 4405.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-08-28** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2020-09-04** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2020-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2020-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 358, Statutes of 2020.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3c9dc1c5-e431-47cb-9b6c-e623177eb4d2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).