---
type: "Bill"
title: "Sustainable Groundwater Management Act: groundwater sustainability plans: groundwater rights."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "SB 1372"
citation: "California SB 1372 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Sustainable Groundwater Management Act: groundwater sustainability plans: groundwater rights."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stern"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2022-02-18"
last_action: "2022-09-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7052cc60-aa3d-46b1-9096-71bf29079490"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1372"
source_hash: "43973302355ac7dd2d9027adf702c18fac516faac741d5240dc1286ad8689e21"
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 1372 (20212022) — Sustainable Groundwater Management Act: groundwater sustainability plans: groundwater rights.

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.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/18/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1372&version=20210SB137299INT)
2. **03/16/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1372&version=20210SB137298AMD)
3. **09/28/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1372&version=20210SB137296CHP)
4. **SB1372** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1372)
5. **08/18/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1372&version=20210SB137297ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 1372 Stern Senate Third Reading By Bauer-Kahan — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Stern — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-18** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-02-18** Article IV Section 8(a) of the Constitution and Joint Rule 55 dispensed with February 7, 2022, suspending the 30 calendar day requirement.
- **2022-02-22** From printer.
- **2022-03-09** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-16** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-03-17** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2022-03-17** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-23** Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-25** Set for hearing April 5.
- **2022-04-05** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 3328.) (April 5). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-06** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-04-18** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 3405.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-04-18** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2022-05-05** Referred to Com. on W.,P., & W. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-14** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 14). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-15** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5880.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-16** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2022-08-23** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12:30 p.m.
- **2022-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 682, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7052cc60-aa3d-46b1-9096-71bf29079490`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).