The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act requires all groundwater basins designated as high- or medium-priority basins by the Department of Water Resources that are designated as basins subject to critical conditions of overdraft to be managed under a groundwater sustainability plan or coordinated groundwater sustainability plans by January 31, 2020, and requires all other groundwater basins designated as high- or medium-priority basins to be managed under a groundwater sustainability plan or coordinated groundwater sustainability plans by January 31, 2022, except as specified.
The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act requires all groundwater basins designated as high- or medium-priority basins by the Department of Water Resources that are designated as basins subject to critical conditions of overdraft to be managed under a groundwater sustainability plan or coordinated groundwater sustainability plans by January 31, 2020, and requires all other groundwater basins designated as high- or medium-priority basins to be managed under a groundwater sustainability plan or coordinated groundwater sustainability plans by January 31, 2022, except as specified.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
SB 1372 Stern Senate Third Reading By Bauer-Kahan — 76–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · upper
Consent Calendar — 36–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
Stern — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2022-02-18 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
2022-02-18 Article IV Section 8(a) of the Constitution and Joint Rule 55 dispensed with February 7, 2022, suspending the 30 calendar day requirement.
2022-02-22 From printer.
2022-03-09 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
2022-03-16 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2022-03-17 Withdrawn from committee.
2022-03-17 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
2022-03-23 Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W. referral-committee
2022-03-25 Set for hearing April 5.
2022-04-05 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 3328.) (April 5). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2022-04-06 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
2022-04-18 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 3405.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2022-04-18 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2022-05-05 Referred to Com. on W.,P., & W. referral-committee
2022-06-14 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 14). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2022-06-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2022-08-15 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5880.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2022-08-16 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
2022-08-23 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12:30 p.m.
2022-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2022-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 682, Statutes of 2022. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7052cc60-aa3d-46b1-9096-71bf29079490. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).