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type: "Bill"
title: "Oil and gas: trailer bill."
description: "Existing law, commencing January 1, 2025, requires oil or gas production facilities or wells with a wellhead within a health protection zone, defined as an area within 3,200 feet of sensitive receptors, which include residences and health care facilities, to comply with specified health, safety, and environmental requirements, as provided. Existing law requires operators with a production facility or well with a wellhead in a health protection zone to submit a leak detection and response plan, as provided, to the Geologic Energy Management Division of the Department of Conservation by January 1, 2025, division approval or notice of deficiency by January 1, 2026, and implementation of the plan by January 1, 2027. Existing law requires every operator to submit a sensitive receptor inventory and map to the division by July 1, 2023. Existing law, commencing January 1, 2027, requires operators with a wellhead or other production facility or facilities in a health protection zone to provide certain information relating to leaks to the division, as provided."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 218"
citation: "California AB 218 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Oil and gas", "trailer bill"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Budget"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-01-09"
last_action: "2024-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/89a1f8d9-d8aa-49bf-9081-3e23ad214040"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB218"
source_hash: "3d9ddf6fd4354ad2b652a474c5599d752c6e87eb28b931640577afb07d7804b7"
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 218 (20232024) — Oil and gas: trailer bill.
Existing law, commencing January 1, 2025, requires oil or gas production facilities or wells with a wellhead within a health protection zone, defined as an area within 3,200 feet of sensitive receptors, which include residences and health care facilities, to comply with specified health, safety, and environmental requirements, as provided. Existing law requires operators with a production facility or well with a wellhead in a health protection zone to submit a leak detection and response plan, as provided, to the Geologic Energy Management Division of the Department of Conservation by January 1, 2025, division approval or notice of deficiency by January 1, 2026, and implementation of the plan by January 1, 2027. Existing law requires every operator to submit a sensitive receptor inventory and map to the division by July 1, 2023. Existing law, commencing January 1, 2027, requires operators with a wellhead or other production facility or facilities in a health protection zone to provide certain information relating to leaks to the division, as provided.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **01/09/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB218&version=20230AB21899INT)
2. **02/01/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB218&version=20230AB21898AMD)
3. **08/27/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB218&version=20230AB21897AMD)
4. **09/30/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB218&version=20230AB21895CHP)
5. **AB218** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB218)
6. **09/05/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB218&version=20230AB21896ENR)
## Votes
- AB 218 Budget Assembly Third Reading By TING — **6014** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **144** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB218 BUDGET (Gabriel) By Wiener — **309** (pass) · upper
- AB 218 BUDGET Concurrence in Senate Amendments By GABRIEL — **5817** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Committee on Budget — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-01-09** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2023-01-10** From printer. May be heard in committee February 9.
- **2023-01-26** Referred to Com. on BUDGET. `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-01** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on BUDGET. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-02-02** Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-20** Assembly Rule 96 suspended. (Ayes 61. Noes 17. Page 732.)
- **2023-03-20** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2023-03-20** Ordered to second reading.
- **2023-03-21** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-03-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 60. Noes 14. Page 887.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-03-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2023-04-12** Referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `referral-committee`
- **2024-08-27** Senate rules suspended (Ayes 31. Noes 9.)
- **2024-08-27** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-08-28** Joint Rules 61 and 62(a) suspended. (Ayes 31. Noes 8.)
- **2024-08-29** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 4.) (August 29). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-08-30** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-31** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 25. Noes 8.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-31** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2024-08-31** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 58. Noes 17.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-09-12** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2024-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 1002, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/89a1f8d9-d8aa-49bf-9081-3e23ad214040`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).