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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Sustainable groundwater management: San Luis Rey Valley Groundwater Basin."
+description: "Existing law, the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, requires all groundwater basins designated as high- or medium-priority basins by the Department of Water Resources that are designated as basins subject to critical conditions of overdraft to be managed under a groundwater sustainability plan or coordinated groundwater sustainability plans by January 31, 2020, and requires all other groundwater basins designated as high- or medium-priority basins to be managed under a groundwater sustainability plan or coordinated groundwater sustainability plans by January 31, 2022, except as specified. The act requires the boundaries of a basin to be as identified in a specified report of the department, unless other basin boundaries are established, as prescribed."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20172018"
+identifier: "AB 1944"
+citation: "California AB 1944 (20172018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Sustainable groundwater management: San Luis Rey Valley Groundwater Basin."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Eduardo Garcia"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2018-01-29"
+last_action: "2018-09-05"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d7eaef75-9a7c-480a-bebf-5027a852b389"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1944"
+source_hash: "2fc7c4b97d54d4317ac067faf93405086f1641640ddb81bf54051b5382ad1362"
+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 1944 (20172018) — Sustainable groundwater management: San Luis Rey Valley Groundwater Basin.
+
+Existing law, the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, requires all groundwater basins designated as high- or medium-priority basins by the Department of Water Resources that are designated as basins subject to critical conditions of overdraft to be managed under a groundwater sustainability plan or coordinated groundwater sustainability plans by January 31, 2020, and requires all other groundwater basins designated as high- or medium-priority basins to be managed under a groundwater sustainability plan or coordinated groundwater sustainability plans by January 31, 2022, except as specified. The act requires the boundaries of a basin to be as identified in a specified report of the department, unless other basin boundaries are established, as prescribed.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **01/29/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1944&version=20170AB194499INT)
+2. **04/11/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1944&version=20170AB194498AMD)
+3. **06/13/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1944&version=20170AB194497AMD)
+4. **09/05/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1944&version=20170AB194495CHP)
+5. **AB1944** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1944)
+6. **08/22/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1944&version=20170AB194496ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- AB 1944 GARCIA, E. Consent Calendar Second Day — **71–0** (pass) · lower
+- AB 1944 GARCIA, E. Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **80–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **12–0** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading AB1944 Eduardo Garcia et al. By Hueso — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Eduardo Garcia — primary (person)
+- Hueso — principal coauthor (person)
+- Waldron — author (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-29** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2018-01-30** From printer. May be heard in committee March 1.
+- **2018-02-08** Referred to Com. on W.,P., & W. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-21** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
+- **2018-04-10** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 10). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
+- **2018-04-11** Read second time and amended. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
+- **2018-04-12** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-04-25** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 25). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2018-04-26** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2018-05-03** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 5004.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2018-05-03** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2018-05-17** Referred to Com. on N.R. & W. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-06-12** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 12). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
+- **2018-06-13** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1`
+- **2018-07-02** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
+- **2018-07-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2018-08-13** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 5266.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2018-08-14** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 16 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
+- **2018-08-20** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6368.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
+- **2018-08-24** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
+- **2018-09-05** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2018-09-05** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 255, Statutes of 2018.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d7eaef75-9a7c-480a-bebf-5027a852b389`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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