republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/ab-951.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Santa Clarita Valley Sanitation District."
description: "The County Sanitation District Act provides for the formation of county sanitation districts. Existing law, the Ralph M. Brown Act, requires the regular and special meetings of a legislative body to be held within the boundaries of the territory over which the local agency exercises jurisdiction, except that the local agency may meet in the closest meeting facility if it has no meeting facility within the boundaries of the territory over which the local agency exercises jurisdiction, or at its principal office if that office is located outside the territory over which the local agency exercises jurisdiction. Under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, each state is required to identify those waters for which prescribed effluent limitations are not stringent enough to implement applicable water quality standards and to establish, with regard to those waters, total maximum daily loads (TMDLs) , subject to the approval of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, for certain pollutants at a level necessary to implement those water quality standards."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 951"
citation: "California AB 951 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Santa Clarita Valley Sanitation District."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wilk"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 26
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2015-02-26"
last_action: "2015-09-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4c724e4a-8c91-4044-8ba0-010ba27ffbd0"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB951"
source_hash: "6782984cab0ef58a4ffcbcc4c1610ed1471d4e61bca37b3a396698b100466788"
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 951 (20152016) — Santa Clarita Valley Sanitation District.

The County Sanitation District Act provides for the formation of county sanitation districts. Existing law, the Ralph M. Brown Act, requires the regular and special meetings of a legislative body to be held within the boundaries of the territory over which the local agency exercises jurisdiction, except that the local agency may meet in the closest meeting facility if it has no meeting facility within the boundaries of the territory over which the local agency exercises jurisdiction, or at its principal office if that office is located outside the territory over which the local agency exercises jurisdiction. Under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, each state is required to identify those waters for which prescribed effluent limitations are not stringent enough to implement applicable water quality standards and to establish, with regard to those waters, total maximum daily loads (TMDLs) , subject to the approval of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, for certain pollutants at a level necessary to implement those water quality standards.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/26/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB951&version=20150AB95199INT)
2. **03/26/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB951&version=20150AB95198AMD)
3. **04/20/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB951&version=20150AB95197AMD)
4. **06/10/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB951&version=20150AB95196AMD)
5. **09/28/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB951&version=20150AB95194CHP)
6. **AB951** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB951)
7. **09/03/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB951&version=20150AB95195ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 951 WILK Consent Calendar Second Day — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB951 Wilk By Runner — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 951 WILK Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Wilk — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-02-26** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2015-02-27** From printer. May be heard in committee March 29.
- **2015-03-26** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-26** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-06** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-16** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 15). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2015-04-20** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-04-21** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-29** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 29). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **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 1349.) `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 GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2015-06-03** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2015-06-10** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-06-17** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2015-07-08** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-08-17** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2015-08-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-08-31** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2293.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-08-31** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 2 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2015-09-01** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 2729.)
- **2015-09-01** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2740.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2015-09-10** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2015-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2015-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 342, Statutes of 2015.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4c724e4a-8c91-4044-8ba0-010ba27ffbd0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).