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type: "Bill"
title: "Primary drinking water standards: hexavalent chromium: compliance plan."
description: "The California Safe Drinking Water Act provides for the operation of public water systems and imposes on the State Water Resources Control Board various duties and responsibilities for the regulation and control of drinking water in the State of California. The act requires the state board to adopt primary drinking water standards for contaminants in drinking water based upon specified criteria, and required a primary drinking water standard to be established for hexavalent chromium by January 1, 2004. Existing law authorizes the state board to grant a variance from primary drinking water standards to a public water system. Existing law makes certain violations of the act a crime."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "SB 385"
citation: "California SB 385 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Primary drinking water standards: hexavalent chromium: compliance plan."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hueso"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 28
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2015-02-24"
last_action: "2015-09-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0a86e3fc-72a3-4285-8811-aa4ec2476e82"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB385"
source_hash: "cc87d421ebfcbb943174724cfefd1d7627ea85104f24f25ecc2355e6167b8db2"
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 SB 385 (20152016) — Primary drinking water standards: hexavalent chromium: compliance plan.
The California Safe Drinking Water Act provides for the operation of public water systems and imposes on the State Water Resources Control Board various duties and responsibilities for the regulation and control of drinking water in the State of California. The act requires the state board to adopt primary drinking water standards for contaminants in drinking water based upon specified criteria, and required a primary drinking water standard to be established for hexavalent chromium by January 1, 2004. Existing law authorizes the state board to grant a variance from primary drinking water standards to a public water system. Existing law makes certain violations of the act a crime.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/24/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB385&version=20150SB38599INT)
2. **04/07/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB385&version=20150SB38598AMD)
3. **05/19/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB385&version=20150SB38597AMD)
4. **06/18/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB385&version=20150SB38596AMD)
5. **09/04/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB385&version=20150SB38594CHP)
6. **SB385** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB385)
7. **08/25/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB385&version=20150SB38595ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **100** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB385 Hueso Urgency Clause Concurrence — **400** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **70** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **160** (pass) · lower
- SB 385 Hueso Consent Calendar Second Day — **790** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading (Urgency Clause) — **390** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Hueso — primary (person)
- Alejo — principal coauthor (person)
- Cannella — coauthor (person)
- Dodd — coauthor (person)
- Eduardo Garcia — principal coauthor (person)
- Mayes — coauthor (person)
- Stone — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2015-02-24** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2015-02-25** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 27.
- **2015-03-12** Referred to Coms. on E.Q. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-17** Set for hearing April 15.
- **2015-04-07** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.Q. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-16** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 649.) (April 15). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-04-24** Set for hearing May 5.
- **2015-05-05** May 5 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2015-05-06** Set for hearing May 12.
- **2015-05-18** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 983.) (May 12). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2015-05-19** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-05-21** Set for hearing May 26.
- **2015-05-26** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2015-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-05-28** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1120.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-05-28** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2015-06-04** Referred to Coms. on E.S. & T.M. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2015-06-18** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-07-01** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 30). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-07-07** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-07-15** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (July 15). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-07-16** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-08-20** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2534.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-08-20** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2015-08-24** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2142.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2015-08-26** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2015-09-04** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2015-09-04** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 272, Statutes of 2015.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0a86e3fc-72a3-4285-8811-aa4ec2476e82`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).