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Bill	Drinking water: administrator: managerial and other services.	Existing law, the California Safe Drinking Water Act, provides for the operation of public water systems and imposes on the State Water Resources Control Board various responsibilities and duties. The act authorizes the state board to contract with, or provide a grant to, an administrator to provide administrative, technical, operational, legal, or managerial services, or any combination of those services, to a designated water system to assist with the provision of an adequate supply of affordable, safe drinking water. Existing law prescribes the processes and procedures pursuant to which the state board may identify a designated water system in need of services, order a designated water system to accept services from an administrator, and work with the administrator of a designated water system to develop adequate technical, managerial, and financial capacity to deliver an adequate supply of affordable, safe drinking water so that administrator services are no longer necessary.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 1254	California SB 1254 (20212022)	bill	Drinking water: administrator: managerial and other services.	enacted	Hertzberg	7	27	8	2022-02-17	2022-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/9e5df707-e38d-4bc9-b6d6-6e153c17c7b7	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1254	2e426efd49a6e396fbee4e589ecb2f5b53ba61c0594e0262fbabb6fe4de4d25d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 1254 (20212022) — Drinking water: administrator: managerial and other services.

Existing law, the California Safe Drinking Water Act, provides for the operation of public water systems and imposes on the State Water Resources Control Board various responsibilities and duties. The act authorizes the state board to contract with, or provide a grant to, an administrator to provide administrative, technical, operational, legal, or managerial services, or any combination of those services, to a designated water system to assist with the provision of an adequate supply of affordable, safe drinking water. Existing law prescribes the processes and procedures pursuant to which the state board may identify a designated water system in need of services, order a designated water system to accept services from an administrator, and work with the administrator of a designated water system to develop adequate technical, managerial, and financial capacity to deliver an adequate supply of affordable, safe drinking water so that administrator services are no longer necessary.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/18/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/28/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/15/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/28/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB1254 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/25/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 1254 Hertzberg Consent Calendar Second Day — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB1254 Hertzberg Concurrence — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Consent Calendar SB1254 — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Hertzberg — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-17 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2022-02-17 Article IV Section 8(a) of the Constitution and Joint Rule 55 dispensed with February 7, 2022, suspending the 30 calendar day requirement.
• 2022-02-18 From printer.
• 2022-03-02 Referred to Coms. on E.Q. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2022-03-08 Set for hearing March 28.
• 2022-03-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3239.) (March 28). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-04-07 Set for hearing April 26.
• 2022-04-18 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-04-27 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 3514.) (April 26). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-04-28 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-05-06 Set for hearing May 16.
• 2022-05-16 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2022-05-17 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-23 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 3842.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-24 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2022-05-27 Referred to Coms. on E.S. & T.M. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2022-06-15 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-06-15 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-06-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-08-03 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 3). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-04 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-11 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5829.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-11 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2022-08-23 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5021.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-30 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2022-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 681, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9e5df707-e38d-4bc9-b6d6-6e153c17c7b7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).