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Bill	Kings River East Groundwater Sustainability Agency Act.	Existing law, the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, requires all groundwater basins designated as high- or medium-priority basins by the Department of Water Resources that are designated as basins subject to critical conditions of overdraft to be managed under a groundwater sustainability plan or coordinated groundwater sustainability plans by January 31, 2020, and requires all other groundwater basins designated as high- or medium-priority basins to be managed under a groundwater sustainability plan or coordinated groundwater sustainability plans by January 31, 2022, except as specified. The act authorizes any local agency or combination of local agencies overlying a groundwater basin to decide to become a groundwater sustainability agency for that basin. The act deems certain agencies created by statute to manage groundwater the exclusive local agencies within their respective statutory boundaries with powers to comply with the act and authorizes these agencies to opt out of being the exclusive groundwater management agency.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	SB 37	California SB 37 (20152016)	bill	Kings River East Groundwater Sustainability Agency Act.	enacted	Vidak	11	38	9	2014-12-01	2016-09-16	openstates	ocd-bill/41a8fa72-9e4d-475b-a861-4cfef50b42c2	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB37	c8d88a765a9610d20cde29aeb138dae3b7372c281bfb75de8d7e5b6e90c3e7af	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 37 (20152016) — Kings River East Groundwater Sustainability Agency Act.

Existing law, the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, requires all groundwater basins designated as high- or medium-priority basins by the Department of Water Resources that are designated as basins subject to critical conditions of overdraft to be managed under a groundwater sustainability plan or coordinated groundwater sustainability plans by January 31, 2020, and requires all other groundwater basins designated as high- or medium-priority basins to be managed under a groundwater sustainability plan or coordinated groundwater sustainability plans by January 31, 2022, except as specified. The act authorizes any local agency or combination of local agencies overlying a groundwater basin to decide to become a groundwater sustainability agency for that basin. The act deems certain agencies created by statute to manage groundwater the exclusive local agencies within their respective statutory boundaries with powers to comply with the act and authorizes these agencies to opt out of being the exclusive groundwater management agency.

Version chain

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

1. 12/01/14 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 02/12/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/07/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/31/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/21/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/29/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/04/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/18/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/16/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. SB37 (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/02/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading (Urgency Clause) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Water, Parks, and Wildlife] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 37 Vidak Senate Third Reading By MATHIS — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 19–0 (pass) · lower
• That the Assembly amendments be concurred in — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB37 Vidak Concurrence — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Vidak — primary (person)
• Fuller — principal coauthor (person)
• Mathis — principal coauthor (person)
• Salas — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-12-01 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2014-12-02 From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 1.
• 2015-01-15 Referred to Com. on N.R. & W. referral-committee
• 2015-02-12 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2015-03-17 Set for hearing March 24.
• 2015-03-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (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.
• 2015-04-13 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2015-04-14 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-04-16 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 631.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-16 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2015-05-14 Referred to Com. on W., P., & W. referral-committee
• 2016-03-07 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on W., P., & W. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2016-05-09 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. referral-committee
• 2016-05-16 From committee: Be re-referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and W., P., & W. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (May 16). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2016-05-31 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-15 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on W., P., & W. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 15). Re-referred to Com. on W., P., & W. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-06-21 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on W., P., & W. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-28 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 28). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-06-29 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-03 August 3 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2016-08-04 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
• 2016-08-10 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (August 10). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-11 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-15 From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Cooper.
• 2016-08-15 Ordered to third reading.
• 2016-08-18 Read third time and amended. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-18 Ordered to third reading.
• 2016-08-23 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6089.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-23 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2016-08-24 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). referral-committee
• 2016-08-24 From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 5326.) Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W. referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2016-08-25 Set for hearing August 25.
• 2016-08-25 From committee: That the Assembly amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 5437.) committee-passage
• 2016-08-29 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5492.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-09-08 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
• 2016-09-16 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-16 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 391, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/41a8fa72-9e4d-475b-a861-4cfef50b42c2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).