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Bill	Water quality: scientific peer review.	Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board and the 9 California regional water quality control boards regulate water quality in accordance with the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act and the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. Among other things, the state board and the regional boards prescribe waste discharge requirements for the discharge of waste in accordance with the federal national pollutant discharge elimination system permit program.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 1707	California AB 1707 (20132014)	bill	Water quality: scientific peer review.	enacted	Wilk	8	25	6	2014-02-13	2014-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/6d070b75-a340-4d66-adda-b139fbef1a15	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1707	3d93b687ec9286c482e166c73436ad064a8f60212f82280dd68e23c5b66b5326	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1707 (20132014) — Water quality: scientific peer review.

Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board and the 9 California regional water quality control boards regulate water quality in accordance with the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act and the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. Among other things, the state board and the regional boards prescribe waste discharge requirements for the discharge of waste in accordance with the federal national pollutant discharge elimination system permit program.

Version chain

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

1. 02/13/14 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/28/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/01/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/05/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/06/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/28/14 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1707 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/21/14 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1707 WILK Consent Calendar Second Day — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1707 Wilk By Knight — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1707 WILK Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Wilk — primary (person)
• Knight — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-02-13 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2014-02-14 From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
• 2014-03-28 Referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. referral-committee
• 2014-03-28 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, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-04-01 Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. referral-committee
• 2014-04-30 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 29). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-05-01 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-05-05 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2014-05-14 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 14). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2014-05-15 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-05-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5111.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-05-23 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2014-06-05 Referred to Com. on E.Q. referral-committee
• 2014-06-05 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E.Q. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-06-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2014-06-30 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2014-07-01 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-08-06 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-08-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4465.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-08-13 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 15 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2014-08-19 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6176.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2014-09-02 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2014-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2014-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 722, Statutes of 2014.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6d070b75-a340-4d66-adda-b139fbef1a15. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).