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Bill	Water quality: municipal wastewater agencies.	Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements for the discharge of stormwater by municipalities and industries in accordance with the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit program and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Existing law requires regulated municipalities and industries to obtain a stormwater permit.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 273	California SB 273 (20212022)	bill	Water quality: municipal wastewater agencies.	enacted	Hertzberg	6	31	8	2021-01-29	2021-09-23	openstates	ocd-bill/31e20d0e-0a79-41bf-80f2-d392e45c45b6	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB273	879623fea291ec813994d95cf0339ea1db903b6fcf2c7452a1c6cfa7f645307f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 273 (20212022) — Water quality: municipal wastewater agencies.

Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements for the discharge of stormwater by municipalities and industries in accordance with the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit program and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Existing law requires regulated municipalities and industries to obtain a stormwater permit.

Version chain

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

1. 01/29/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/14/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/21/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/23/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. SB273 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/01/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Environmental Quality] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Consent Calendar SB273 — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 273 Hertzberg Senate Third Reading By Bauer-Kahan — 70–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent SB273 — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Hertzberg — primary (person)
• Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
• Mathis — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-29 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2021-02-01 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 3.
• 2021-02-01 Read first time. reading-1
• 2021-02-10 Referred to Coms. on GOV. & F. and E.Q. referral-committee
• 2021-02-22 Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
• 2021-02-22 (Ayes 32. Noes 4.)
• 2021-02-22 Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)
• 2021-03-02 Set for hearing March 11.
• 2021-03-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E.Q. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 479.) (March 11). Re-referred to Com. on E.Q. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-03-18 Set for hearing April 12.
• 2021-04-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 756.) (April 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-04-14 Set for hearing April 19.
• 2021-04-19 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2021-04-20 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-04-22 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 886.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-04-22 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2021-05-13 Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and E.S. & T.M. referral-committee
• 2021-06-10 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on E.S. & T.M. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 9). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-14 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-06-21 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-06-30 Coauthors revised.
• 2021-06-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-07-07 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (July 7). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-07-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-19 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 2434.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-08-19 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2021-08-23 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2021-08-30 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2244.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-03 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2021-09-23 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-09-23 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 241, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/31e20d0e-0a79-41bf-80f2-d392e45c45b6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).