republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/ab-149.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Urban water management plans."
description: "Existing law, the Urban Water Management Planning Act, requires every public and private urban water supplier that directly or indirectly provides water for municipal purposes to prepare and adopt an urban water management plan and to update its plan once every 5 years on or before December 31 in years ending in 5 and zero, except as specified. The act requires an urban water supplier to submit to the Department of Water Resources a copy of its plan no later than 30 days after adoption and requires the department to prepare and submit to the Legislature, on or before December 31, in the years ending in 6 and 1, a report summarizing the status of plans adopted pursuant to the act. The act requires each urban water supplier to update and submit its 2015 plan to the department by July 1, 2016."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 149"
citation: "California AB 149 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Urban water management plans."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chávez"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 17
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2015-01-15"
last_action: "2015-07-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8740cd19-14d6-4d6a-b8b6-c041d8d87385"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB149"
source_hash: "f046b5db13595924534d7de018bfa4121cff6a31dd3baa77e0b9d1bc6aab8432"
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 149 (20152016) — Urban water management plans.

Existing law, the Urban Water Management Planning Act, requires every public and private urban water supplier that directly or indirectly provides water for municipal purposes to prepare and adopt an urban water management plan and to update its plan once every 5 years on or before December 31 in years ending in 5 and zero, except as specified. The act requires an urban water supplier to submit to the Department of Water Resources a copy of its plan no later than 30 days after adoption and requires the department to prepare and submit to the Legislature, on or before December 31, in the years ending in 6 and 1, a report summarizing the status of plans adopted pursuant to the act. The act requires each urban water supplier to update and submit its 2015 plan to the department by July 1, 2016.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/15/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB149&version=20150AB14999INT)
2. **04/29/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB149&version=20150AB14998AMD)
3. **06/11/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB149&version=20150AB14997AMD)
4. **07/06/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB149&version=20150AB14995CHP)
5. **AB149** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB149)
6. **06/23/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB149&version=20150AB14996ENR)

## Votes

- Consent Calendar 2nd — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 149 CHÁVEZ Consent Calendar Second Day — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 149 CHÁVEZ Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **76–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **9–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chávez — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-01-15** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2015-01-16** From printer. May be heard in committee February 15.
- **2015-02-02** Referred to Com. on W., P., & W. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-28** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 28). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2015-04-29** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-04-30** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-05-07** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1346.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-05-07** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2015-05-21** Referred to Com. on N.R. & W. `referral-committee`
- **2015-06-10** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 9). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2015-06-11** Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-06-18** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1491.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-06-18** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 20 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2015-06-22** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 1. Page 2082.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2015-06-26** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
- **2015-07-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2015-07-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 49, Statutes of 2015.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8740cd19-14d6-4d6a-b8b6-c041d8d87385`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).