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Bill	Wildlife connectivity actions: compensatory mitigation credits.	Existing law establishes the Department of Fish and Wildlife and sets forth the powers and duties of the department with regard to the implementation and administration of, among other things, projects and programs to protect wildlife and wildlife habitat in the state, including a conservation and mitigation banking program and a regional conservation investment strategy program. Under the conservation and mitigation banking program and the regional conservation investment strategy program, existing law authorizes the creation of credits under certain circumstances that may be used to fulfill legal obligations to mitigate impacts to fish and wildlife.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 790	California SB 790 (20212022)	bill	Wildlife connectivity actions: compensatory mitigation credits.	enacted	Stern	9	38	10	2021-02-19	2021-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/2afa29ca-cbfa-4470-89e8-9bdc7cf8af82	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB790	52400f3214ff4da73a00d01fdca72dfd9c25dd6559755fcb6007566c59a29d97	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 790 (20212022) — Wildlife connectivity actions: compensatory mitigation credits.

Existing law establishes the Department of Fish and Wildlife and sets forth the powers and duties of the department with regard to the implementation and administration of, among other things, projects and programs to protect wildlife and wildlife habitat in the state, including a conservation and mitigation banking program and a regional conservation investment strategy program. Under the conservation and mitigation banking program and the regional conservation investment strategy program, existing law authorizes the creation of credits under certain circumstances that may be used to fulfill legal obligations to mitigate impacts to fish and wildlife.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/22/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/14/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/20/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/07/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/30/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/08/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. SB790 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/08/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Special Consent SB790 — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Rules] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 16–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Transportation] — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB790 Stern et al. Concurrence — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 790 Stern Senate Third Reading By Eduardo Garcia — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Stern — primary (person)
• Archuleta — coauthor (person)
• Bloom — coauthor (person)
• Cortese — author (person)
• Friedman — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-19 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2021-02-22 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
• 2021-02-22 Read first time. reading-1
• 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 Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2021-03-19 Set for hearing April 13.
• 2021-03-22 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-04-13 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on RLS with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0. Page 781.) (April 13). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-14 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-04-21 Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W. referral-committee
• 2021-04-23 Set for hearing April 27.
• 2021-04-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 939.) (April 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, 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 1204.) (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
• 2021-05-28 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2021-06-01 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1351.) 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 TRANS. referral-committee
• 2021-06-14 Assembly Rule 56 suspended.
• 2021-07-01 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-07-06 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (July 5). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-07-07 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-08-19 August 19 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2021-08-26 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (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
• 2021-09-02 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2722.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-02 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2021-09-07 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2455.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2021-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 738, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2afa29ca-cbfa-4470-89e8-9bdc7cf8af82. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).