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Bill	Water replenishment districts.	Existing law authorizes a water replenishment district, for the purposes of replenishing the groundwater supplies within the district, to buy and sell water; exchange water; distribute water to persons in exchange for ceasing or reducing groundwater extractions; spread, sink, and inject water into the underground; store, transport, recapture, recycle, purify, treat, or otherwise manage and control water for the beneficial use of persons or property within the district; and build the necessary works to achieve groundwater replenishment.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	SB 963	California SB 963 (20172018)	bill	Water replenishment districts.	enacted	Allen	8	24	5	2018-01-31	2018-09-11	openstates	ocd-bill/d8f3c65b-130a-418c-b20b-9e8863b68e20	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB963	9c7e18544534afeddd826db0f888244afd4b7f9f37d718c7c1fb8f518fc4560e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 963 (20172018) — Water replenishment districts.

Existing law authorizes a water replenishment district, for the purposes of replenishing the groundwater supplies within the district, to buy and sell water; exchange water; distribute water to persons in exchange for ceasing or reducing groundwater extractions; spread, sink, and inject water into the underground; store, transport, recapture, recycle, purify, treat, or otherwise manage and control water for the beneficial use of persons or property within the district; and build the necessary works to achieve groundwater replenishment.

Version chain

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

1. 01/31/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/14/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/12/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/04/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/18/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/11/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB963 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/21/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 963 Allen Senate Third Reading By MURATSUCHI — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB963 Allen Concurrence — 37–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Allen — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-31 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2018-02-01 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 3.
• 2018-02-08 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2018-03-14 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2018-03-21 Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2018-04-03 Set for hearing April 11.
• 2018-04-11 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 4623.) (April 11). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2018-04-12 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2018-04-16 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2018-04-16 Ordered to second reading.
• 2018-04-17 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-04-30 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4875.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-04-30 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2018-05-07 Referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2018-06-04 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2018-06-14 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 13). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2018-06-18 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-06-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-16 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 6299.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-16 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2018-08-20 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 5422.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-08-24 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2018-09-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 351, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d8f3c65b-130a-418c-b20b-9e8863b68e20. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).