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Bill	Central Basin Municipal Water District.	Existing law, the Municipal Water District Law of 1911, authorizes the formation of a municipal water district to acquire and sell water. The district law authorizes a municipal water district to make contracts.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	SB 953	California SB 953 (20152016)	bill	Central Basin Municipal Water District.	enacted	Lara	6	25	8	2016-02-04	2016-09-21	openstates	ocd-bill/25c4b306-da23-4676-a07d-c74e1e90e935	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB953	01d3d783f4dcedb54524f7b66829293113a9e67e979b0b585a8d9cf79af4a36c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 953 (20152016) — Central Basin Municipal Water District.

Existing law, the Municipal Water District Law of 1911, authorizes the formation of a municipal water district to acquire and sell water. The district law authorizes a municipal water district to make contracts.

Version chain

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

1. 02/04/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 08/01/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/15/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/21/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. SB953 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/26/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• SB 953 Lara Senate Third Reading By GARCIA, C. — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 26–11 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–3 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB953 Lara Concurrence — 37–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 14–6 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Lara — primary (person)
• Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-04 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2016-02-05 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 6.
• 2016-02-18 Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2016-03-29 Set for hearing April 6.
• 2016-04-06 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3419.) (April 6). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-04-08 Set for hearing April 18.
• 2016-04-18 April 18 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2016-05-20 Set for hearing May 27.
• 2016-05-27 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 4000.) (May 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-31 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 26. Noes 11. Page 4039.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-01 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2016-06-06 Referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2016-06-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-01 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
• 2016-08-03 August 3 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2016-08-12 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 14. Noes 6.) (August 11). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-15 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-18 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 5918.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-24 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2016-08-25 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 2. Page 5411.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-30 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
• 2016-09-21 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-21 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 426, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/25c4b306-da23-4676-a07d-c74e1e90e935. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).