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Bill	Drinking water: consolidation.	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 order consolidation with a receiving water system where a public water system or a state small water system, serving a disadvantaged community, consistently fails to provide an adequate supply of safe drinking water or where a disadvantaged community is substantially reliant on domestic wells that consistently fail to provide an adequate supply of safe drinking water.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 403	California SB 403 (20212022)	bill	Drinking water: consolidation.	enacted	Gonzalez	7	31	8	2021-02-12	2021-09-23	openstates	ocd-bill/a8c60136-09ae-42e1-8b8d-cf34dcb937c3	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB403	96d391919ac4a9083e4ca07c6801247d8b0022b96cf037ddf272eb230c4d8de8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 403 (20212022) — Drinking water: consolidation.

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 order consolidation with a receiving water system where a public water system or a state small water system, serving a disadvantaged community, consistently fails to provide an adequate supply of safe drinking water or where a disadvantaged community is substantially reliant on domestic wells that consistently fail to provide an adequate supply of safe drinking water.

Version chain

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

1. 02/12/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/27/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/08/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/05/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/23/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB403 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/07/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] — 6–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 3–1 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB403 Gonzalez et al. Concurrence — 30–9 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 12–4 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Governance and Finance] — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–2 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading SB403 Gonzalez et al. — 27–7 (pass) · upper
• SB 403 Gonzalez Senate Third Reading By Arambula — 60–18 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Gonzalez — primary (person)
• Arambula — coauthor (person)
• Dodd — coauthor (person)
• Durazo — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-12 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2021-02-16 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
• 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.)
• 2021-02-25 Referred to Coms. on E.Q. and GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2021-03-03 Set for hearing March 15.
• 2021-03-16 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on GOV. & F. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 500.) (March 15). Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-04-13 Set for hearing April 22.
• 2021-04-26 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 3. Noes 1. Page 896.) (April 22). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-27 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-04-30 Set for hearing May 10.
• 2021-05-10 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2021-05-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-20 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 27. Noes 7. Page 1129.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-05-20 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2021-05-28 Referred to Coms. on E.S. & T.M. and L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2021-06-08 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
• 2021-06-16 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (June 16). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-07-01 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (June 30). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-07-05 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-07-14 July 14 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2021-08-26 Coauthors revised.
• 2021-08-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (August 26). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-08-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-01 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 60. Noes 18. Page 2606.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-01 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2021-09-02 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 30. Noes 9. Page 2354.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1 p.m.
• 2021-09-23 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-09-23 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 242, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a8c60136-09ae-42e1-8b8d-cf34dcb937c3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).