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Bill	Water development projects: Sacramento-San Joaquin watersheds.	Existing law provides for state cooperation with the federal government in the construction of specified flood control projects. Existing law adopts and authorizes federally adopted and approved projects, including a 200-year level of flood protection in the Natomas Basin, in areas within the City of Sacramento and the Counties of Sacramento and Sutter. The projects are authorized at an estimated cost to the state of the sum that may be appropriated by the Legislature for state participation upon the recommendation and advice of the Department of Water Resources or the Central Valley Flood Protection Board, formerly known as the Reclamation Board.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	SB 144	California SB 144 (20152016)	bill	Water development projects: Sacramento-San Joaquin watersheds.	enacted	Pan	5	23	7	2015-01-27	2015-10-09	openstates	ocd-bill/b2c7cd57-8b98-4e66-8016-25e3c4f71b8f	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB144	575e20e8647b801f6f5da886a9a80446bb68009f2630af0cffca348af64e46d0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 144 (20152016) — Water development projects: Sacramento-San Joaquin watersheds.

Existing law provides for state cooperation with the federal government in the construction of specified flood control projects. Existing law adopts and authorizes federally adopted and approved projects, including a 200-year level of flood protection in the Natomas Basin, in areas within the City of Sacramento and the Counties of Sacramento and Sutter. The projects are authorized at an estimated cost to the state of the sum that may be appropriated by the Legislature for state participation upon the recommendation and advice of the Department of Water Resources or the Central Valley Flood Protection Board, formerly known as the Reclamation Board.

Version chain

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

1. 01/27/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/06/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 10/09/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. SB144 (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/04/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 144 Pan Senate Third Reading By GALLAGHER — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 9–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Pan — primary (person)
• Gallagher — coauthor (person)
• McCarty — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-01-27 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2015-01-28 From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 27.
• 2015-02-05 Referred to Com. on N.R. & W. referral-committee
• 2015-03-17 Set for hearing March 24.
• 2015-03-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 405.) (March 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-04-02 Set for hearing April 13.
• 2015-04-06 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-13 April 13 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2015-05-23 Set for hearing May 28.
• 2015-05-28 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1148.) (May 28). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-05-28 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-06-01 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1196.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-02 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2015-06-11 Referred to Com. on W., P., & W. referral-committee
• 2015-06-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-07-08 July 8 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2015-08-28 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-08-28 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-03 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 2847.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-03 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2015-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2015-10-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-10-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 674, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b2c7cd57-8b98-4e66-8016-25e3c4f71b8f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).