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Bill	Drought planning: small water suppliers: nontransient noncommunity water systems.	Existing law declares that small water suppliers and rural communities are often not covered by established water shortage requirements, and that the state should provide guidance to improve drought planning for small water suppliers and rural communities. Existing law required the Department of Water Resources, in consultation with the State Water Resources Control Board and other relevant state and local agencies and stakeholders, to use available data to identify, no later than January 1, 2020, small water suppliers and rural communities that may be at risk of drought and water shortage vulnerability. To implement this directive, the department formed a stakeholder advisory group, the County Drought Advisory Group. Existing law required the department, in consultation with the state board, to propose to the Governor and the Legislature, by January 1, 2020, recommendations and guidance relating to the development and implementation of countywide drought and water shortage contingency plans to address the planning needs of small water suppliers and rural communities, as provided.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 552	California SB 552 (20212022)	bill	Drought planning: small water suppliers: nontransient noncommunity water systems.	enacted	Hertzberg	11	38	10	2021-02-18	2021-09-23	openstates	ocd-bill/23c0ae1c-c5d1-4cb4-8f2d-c95d1f36897f	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB552	252d81c02c870aa5a86c024f42befdc9d67dc61efda93ce7015a5d086d680c75	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 552 (20212022) — Drought planning: small water suppliers: nontransient noncommunity water systems.

Existing law declares that small water suppliers and rural communities are often not covered by established water shortage requirements, and that the state should provide guidance to improve drought planning for small water suppliers and rural communities. Existing law required the Department of Water Resources, in consultation with the State Water Resources Control Board and other relevant state and local agencies and stakeholders, to use available data to identify, no later than January 1, 2020, small water suppliers and rural communities that may be at risk of drought and water shortage vulnerability. To implement this directive, the department formed a stakeholder advisory group, the County Drought Advisory Group. Existing law required the department, in consultation with the state board, to propose to the Governor and the Legislature, by January 1, 2020, recommendations and guidance relating to the development and implementation of countywide drought and water shortage contingency plans to address the planning needs of small water suppliers and rural communities, as provided.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/27/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/20/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/14/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/21/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/05/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/30/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/03/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/23/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. SB552 (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/13/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• SB 552 Hertzberg Senate Third Reading By Friedman — 69–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] — 11–3 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading SB552 Hertzberg et al. — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Governance and Finance] — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB552 Hertzberg et al. Concurrence — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 12–4 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Hertzberg — primary (person)
• Archuleta — coauthor (person)
• Caballero — coauthor (person)
• Dodd — coauthor (person)
• Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
• Robert Rivas — coauthor (person)
• Wiener — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-18 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2021-02-19 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 21.
• 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.)
• 2021-03-03 Referred to Coms. on N.R. & W. and GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2021-03-24 Set for hearing April 13.
• 2021-04-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on GOV. & F. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 777.) (April 13). Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-04-16 Set for hearing April 22.
• 2021-04-26 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. 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 May 10 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2021-05-14 Set for hearing May 20.
• 2021-05-20 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1196.) (May 20). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-20 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-06-01 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1323.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-06-02 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2021-06-10 Referred to Coms. on W.,P., & W. and L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2021-06-14 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on W.,P., & W. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-06-17 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (June 17). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-21 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-07-01 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (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
• 2021-08-16 August 19 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2021-08-26 August 26 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2021-08-26 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (August 26). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-08-30 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-31 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-03 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-03 Ordered to third reading.
• 2021-09-08 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 69. Noes 2. Page 2917.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-08 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2021-09-09 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2558.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-17 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
• 2021-09-23 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-09-23 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 245, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/23c0ae1c-c5d1-4cb4-8f2d-c95d1f36897f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).