Water quality control plans: donations and grants.
Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board and the 9 California regional water quality control boards regulate water quality. Existing law requires each regional board to formulate and adopt water quality control plans for all areas within the region, as provided. Existing law establishes in the continuously appropriated State Water Quality Control Fund the continuously appropriated State Water Pollution Cleanup and Abatement Account, which is administered by the state board.
California AB 2501 (20232024) — Water quality control plans: donations and grants.
Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board and the 9 California regional water quality control boards regulate water quality. Existing law requires each regional board to formulate and adopt water quality control plans for all areas within the region, as provided. Existing law establishes in the continuously appropriated State Water Quality Control Fund the continuously appropriated State Water Pollution Cleanup and Abatement Account, which is administered by the state board.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
AB 2501 Alvarez Assembly Third Reading — 72–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass as amended. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
Special Consent AB2501 Alvarez By Atkins — 39–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
Alvarez — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2024-02-13 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2024-02-14 From printer. May be heard in committee March 15.
2024-02-26 Referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. referral-committee
2024-03-11 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E.S. & T.M. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
2024-03-12 Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. referral-committee
2024-03-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2024-04-10 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
2024-05-16 Assembly Rule 63 suspended.
2024-05-16 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 16). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
2024-05-16 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
2024-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2024-05-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 5602.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
2024-05-24 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2024-06-05 Referred to Com. on E.Q. referral-committee
2024-06-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2024-07-01 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
2024-08-15 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 15). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2024-08-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2024-08-23 Ordered to special consent calendar.
2024-08-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
2024-08-28 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
2024-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
2024-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2024-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 833, Statutes of 2024. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/255bee60-7152-4142-a36a-8a489e929b5b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).