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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Water theft: irrigation districts."
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description: "Existing law authorizes the legislative body of a local agency, as defined, that provides water services to adopt an ordinance that prohibits water theft, as defined, subject to an administrative fine or penalty, as specified. Existing law requires the local agency to adopt an ordinance that sets forth the administrative procedures governing the imposition, enforcement, collection, and administrative review of the administrative fines or penalties for water theft and to establish a process for granting a hardship waiver to reduce the amount of the fine, as specified."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20212022"
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identifier: "AB 2505"
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citation: "California AB 2505 (20212022)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Water theft: irrigation districts."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Gray"]
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version_count: 5
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action_count: 17
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vote_count: 4
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first_action: "2022-02-17"
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last_action: "2022-06-20"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5f666545-a11a-4faf-8183-8c68adbb639c"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2505"
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source_hash: "6f7e169279095d6c6a7b5f9dbd5f5c66d54679e3de22ec4489f372d7dd19e175"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 2505 (20212022) — Water theft: irrigation districts.
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Existing law authorizes the legislative body of a local agency, as defined, that provides water services to adopt an ordinance that prohibits water theft, as defined, subject to an administrative fine or penalty, as specified. Existing law requires the local agency to adopt an ordinance that sets forth the administrative procedures governing the imposition, enforcement, collection, and administrative review of the administrative fines or penalties for water theft and to establish a process for granting a hardship waiver to reduce the amount of the fine, as specified.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/17/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2505&version=20210AB250599INT)
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2. **03/24/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2505&version=20210AB250598AMD)
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3. **06/20/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2505&version=20210AB250596CHP)
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4. **AB2505** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2505)
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5. **06/10/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2505&version=20210AB250597ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **8–0** (pass) · lower
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- AB 2505 Gray Consent Calendar Second Day — **65–0** (pass) · lower
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- Consent Calendar AB2505 — **38–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **5–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Gray — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2022-02-17** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2022-02-18** From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
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- **2022-03-10** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
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- **2022-03-24** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2022-03-28** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
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- **2022-05-04** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (May 4). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2022-05-05** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2022-05-12** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 0. Page 4657.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2022-05-12** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2022-05-25** Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
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- **2022-06-01** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 1). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2022-06-02** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2022-06-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4129.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2022-06-09** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
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- **2022-06-16** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
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- **2022-06-20** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2022-06-20** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 23, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5f666545-a11a-4faf-8183-8c68adbb639c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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