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type: "Bill"
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title: "Low-impact camping areas."
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description: "Existing law, the Special Occupancy Parks Act, establishes requirements for the construction, maintenance, occupancy, use, and design of special occupancy parks. Existing law defines \"special occupancy park\" to mean a recreational vehicle park, temporary recreational vehicle park, incidental camping area, or tent camp."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20252026"
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identifier: "AB 518"
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citation: "California AB 518 (20252026)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Low-impactcampingareas"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Ward"]
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version_count: 9
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action_count: 24
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vote_count: 7
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first_action: "2025-02-10"
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last_action: "2025-10-01"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d39f89ca-9151-41d4-9ad2-cae08ee477d2"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB518"
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source_hash: "41e54ace9f3922404cf87b35c991f9c18b7565437a301936601f1311e19e3049"
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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 518 (20252026) — Low-impact camping areas.
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Existing law, the Special Occupancy Parks Act, establishes requirements for the construction, maintenance, occupancy, use, and design of special occupancy parks. Existing law defines "special occupancy park" to mean a recreational vehicle park, temporary recreational vehicle park, incidental camping area, or tent camp.
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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. **02/10/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB518&version=20250AB51899INT)
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2. **04/21/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB518&version=20250AB51898AMD)
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3. **05/07/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB518&version=20250AB51897AMD)
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4. **06/23/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB518&version=20250AB51896AMD)
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5. **07/17/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB518&version=20250AB51895AMD)
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6. **08/29/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB518&version=20250AB51894AMD)
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7. **10/01/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB518&version=20250AB51892CHP)
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8. **AB518** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB518)
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9. **09/12/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB518&version=20250AB51893ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass as amended — **4–0** (pass) · upper
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- AB 518 Ward Assembly Third Reading — **63–0** (pass) · lower
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- Placed on suspense file — **6–0** (pass) · upper
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- 3rd Reading AB518 Ward et al. By Limón — **35–1** (pass) · upper
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- AB 518 Ward Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **67–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass as amended. — **10–1** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Rules] — **9–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Ward — primary (person)
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- Connolly — coauthor (person)
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- Ortega — coauthor (person)
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- Rogers — coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-02-10** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2025-02-11** From printer. May be heard in committee March 13.
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- **2025-02-24** Referred to Com. on H. & C.D. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-04-10** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 1.) (April 9). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
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- **2025-04-21** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-04-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-05-07** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-05-12** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 63. Noes 0. Page 1508.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-05-13** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2025-05-21** Referred to Com. on HOUSING. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-06-23** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HOUSING. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2025-07-16** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on RLS. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 15). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2025-07-17** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2025-08-20** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-08-25** In committee: Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-08-29** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (August 29). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
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- **2025-08-29** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-09-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-09-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 1. Page 2660.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-09-09** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
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- **2025-09-10** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 67. Noes 0. Page 3220.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-09-22** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
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- **2025-10-01** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2025-10-01** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 157, Statutes of 2025. `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/d39f89ca-9151-41d4-9ad2-cae08ee477d2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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