republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/sb-252.md

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Bill	Water wells.	(1) Existing law requires the State Water Resources Control Board to adopt a model water well, cathodic protection well, and monitoring well drilling and abandonment ordinance implementing certain standards for water well construction, maintenance, and abandonment and requires each county, city, or water agency, where appropriate, not later than January 15, 1990, to adopt a water well, cathodic protection well, and monitoring well drilling and abandonment ordinance that meets or exceeds certain standards. Under existing law, if a county, city, or water agency, where appropriate, fails to adopt an ordinance establishing water well, cathodic protection well, and monitoring well drilling and abandonment standards, the model ordinance adopted by the state board is required to take effect on February 15, 1990, and is required to be enforced by the county or city and have the same force and effect as if adopted as a county or city ordinance.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	SB 252	California SB 252 (20172018)	bill	Water wells.	enacted	Dodd	12	36	7	2017-02-07	2017-10-06	openstates	ocd-bill/90c59de8-9a00-4bdf-b695-c16ab17f4275	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB252	8d40cd8bc8fa5afa73601c4a1491788b743a723d851f84c722cb2dc6432afbb7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 252 (20172018) — Water wells.

(1) Existing law requires the State Water Resources Control Board to adopt a model water well, cathodic protection well, and monitoring well drilling and abandonment ordinance implementing certain standards for water well construction, maintenance, and abandonment and requires each county, city, or water agency, where appropriate, not later than January 15, 1990, to adopt a water well, cathodic protection well, and monitoring well drilling and abandonment ordinance that meets or exceeds certain standards. Under existing law, if a county, city, or water agency, where appropriate, fails to adopt an ordinance establishing water well, cathodic protection well, and monitoring well drilling and abandonment standards, the model ordinance adopted by the state board is required to take effect on February 15, 1990, and is required to be enforced by the county or city and have the same force and effect as if adopted as a county or city ordinance.

Version chain

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

1. 02/07/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/13/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/17/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/02/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/14/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/28/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 07/17/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/21/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/01/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
10. 10/06/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
11. SB252 (committee substitute) — source
12. 09/14/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 10–5 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 23–14 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–3 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB252 Dodd Concurrence — 25–14 (pass) · upper
• SB 252 Dodd Senate Third Reading By FRIEDMAN — 46–31 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] — 9–6 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dodd — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-07 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2017-02-08 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 10.
• 2017-02-08 Read first time. reading-1
• 2017-02-16 Referred to Coms. on N.R. & W. and GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2017-02-18 Set for hearing March 14.
• 2017-03-01 March 14 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2017-03-07 Set for hearing March 28.
• 2017-03-13 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-03-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on GOV. & F. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (March 28). Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-04-07 Set for hearing April 26.
• 2017-04-17 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-01 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 2. Page 884.) (April 26). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2017-05-02 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2017-05-04 Set for hearing May 15.
• 2017-05-15 May 15 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2017-05-19 Set for hearing May 25.
• 2017-05-25 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1180.) (May 25). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-05-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-30 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 23. Noes 14. Page 1267.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-31 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2017-06-08 Referred to Coms. on W.,P., & W. and L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2017-06-14 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on W.,P., & W. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-06-27 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 9. Noes 6.) (June 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2017-06-28 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2017-07-13 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (July 12). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2017-07-17 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2017-08-21 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-08-31 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 5.) (August 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-11 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 46. Noes 31. Page 3170.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-11 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2017-09-12 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 25. Noes 14. Page 2786.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-18 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2017-10-06 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-10-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 538, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/90c59de8-9a00-4bdf-b695-c16ab17f4275. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).