---
type: "Bill"
title: "Environmental protection: lands and coastal waters conservation goal."
description: "By Executive Order No. N-82-20, Governor Gavin Newsom directed the Natural Resources Agency to combat the biodiversity and climate crises by, among other things, establishing the California Biodiversity Collaborative and conserving at least 30% of California's lands and coastal waters by 2030. Existing law requires the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency to prepare and submit, on or before March 31, 2024, and annually thereafter, a report to the Legislature on the progress made in the prior calendar year toward achieving the goal to conserve 30% of California's lands and coastal waters by 2030."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "SB 337"
citation: "California SB 337 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Environmental protection", "lands and coastal waters conservation goal"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Min"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-02-07"
last_action: "2023-10-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/33b6e191-2d6b-4e42-abed-c330abcf9c06"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB337"
source_hash: "c6f41905c31455833433e9fde88660b745cfb760ada0a945cb206ae7cae7356e"
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 SB 337 (20232024) — Environmental protection: lands and coastal waters conservation goal.

By Executive Order No. N-82-20, Governor Gavin Newsom directed the Natural Resources Agency to combat the biodiversity and climate crises by, among other things, establishing the California Biodiversity Collaborative and conserving at least 30% of California's lands and coastal waters by 2030. Existing law requires the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency to prepare and submit, on or before March 31, 2024, and annually thereafter, a report to the Legislature on the progress made in the prior calendar year toward achieving the goal to conserve 30% of California's lands and coastal waters by 2030.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/07/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB337&version=20230SB33799INT)
2. **03/15/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB337&version=20230SB33798AMD)
3. **04/20/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB337&version=20230SB33797AMD)
4. **10/07/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB337&version=20230SB33795CHP)
5. **SB337** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB337)
6. **09/13/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB337&version=20230SB33796ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–2** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **13–3** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 337 Min Senate Third Reading By Kalra — **69–7** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading SB337 Min et al. — **29–5** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Min — primary (person)
- Kalra — principal coauthor (person)
- Stern — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-07** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-08** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 10.
- **2023-02-15** Referred to Com. on N.R. & W. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-15** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-10** Set for hearing April 18.
- **2023-04-19** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2. Page 801.) (April 18). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-20** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-25** Set for hearing May 1.
- **2023-05-01** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2023-05-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-05-15** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 5. Page 1075.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-05-15** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-26** Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-13** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-08-16** August 16 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
- **2023-09-01** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 3.) (September 1). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-09-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-09-11** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 69. Noes 7. Page 3155.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-09-11** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2023-09-15** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2023-10-07** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2023-10-07** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 392, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/33b6e191-2d6b-4e42-abed-c330abcf9c06`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).