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Bill	Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund.	Existing law, the California Safe Drinking Water Act, requires the State Department of Public Health to administer provisions relating to the regulation of drinking water to protect public health, including, but not limited to, conducting research, studies, and demonstration programs relating to the provision of a dependable, safe supply of drinking water, enforcing the federal Safe Drinking Water Act, adoption of enforcement regulations, and conducting studies and investigations to assess the quality of water in domestic water supplies.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 1438	California AB 1438 (20092010)	bill	Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund.	enacted	Conway	9	32	9	2009-02-27	2009-10-11	openstates	ocd-bill/505fc1db-03fc-40b0-9f42-346047c690fb	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1438	835c4eaa52f7219dcf2c3ca53f9f7f9cc474b4fa30949d491f4396f8ae053f5e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1438 (20092010) — Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund.

Existing law, the California Safe Drinking Water Act, requires the State Department of Public Health to administer provisions relating to the regulation of drinking water to protect public health, including, but not limited to, conducting research, studies, and demonstration programs relating to the provision of a dependable, safe supply of drinking water, enforcing the federal Safe Drinking Water Act, adoption of enforcement regulations, and conducting studies and investigations to assess the quality of water in domestic water supplies.

Version chain

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

1. 02/27/09 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/13/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/04/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/26/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/13/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/02/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/11/09 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB1438 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/21/09 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · lower
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — pass (pass) · upper
• AB 1438 CONWAY Concurrence in Senate Amendments — pass (pass) · lower
• Special Consent #20 AB1438 Conway By Aanestad — pass (pass) · upper
• AB 1438 CONWAY Assembly Third Reading — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Water, Parks and Wildlife. — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Conway — primary (person)
• Jones — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2009-02-27 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2009-03-01 From printer. May be heard in committee March 30.
• 2009-03-02 Read first time. reading-1
• 2009-04-02 Referred to Coms. on E.S. & T.M. and W.,P. & W. referral-committee
• 2009-04-13 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E.S. & T.M. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-04-15 Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. referral-committee
• 2009-04-22 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on W.,P. & W. Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 21). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-04-30 From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 28). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-05-04 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-05-05 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2009-05-20 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2009-05-29 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 28). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-05-29 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-06-01 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1855.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-06-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2009-06-11 Referred to Com. on EQ. referral-committee
• 2009-06-26 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on EQ. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2009-07-09 From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 6). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-07-13 Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-08-17 In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
• 2009-08-31 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (August 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-08-31 (received by desk August 28, 2009 pursuant to JR61(a)(11))
• 2009-09-01 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-09-02 Read third time, amended. To second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-09-03 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-09-08 Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
• 2009-09-09 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2341.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-09-10 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2009-09-11 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3353.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2009-09-25 Enrolled and to the Governor at 5 p.m.
• 2009-10-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2009-10-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 531, Statutes of 2009.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/505fc1db-03fc-40b0-9f42-346047c690fb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).