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Bill	California Water Supply Solutions Act of 2023.	Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources to update every 5 years the plan for the orderly and coordinated control, protection, conservation, development, and use of the water resources of the state, which is known as "The California Water Plan." Existing law requires the department to establish an advisory committee, composed of representatives of agricultural and urban water suppliers, local government, business, production agriculture, and environmental interests, and other interested parties, to assist the department in the updating of the California Water Plan. Existing law requires the department to include a discussion of various strategies in the plan update, including, but not limited to, strategies relating to the development of new water storage facilities, water conservation, water recycling, desalination, conjunctive use, water transfers, and alternative pricing policies that may be pursued in order to meet the future needs of the state.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 659	California SB 659 (20232024)	bill	California Water Supply Solutions Act of 2023	enacted	Ashby	10	33	9	2023-02-16	2023-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/1c17dcab-f193-4ca0-9ede-3de3f9aafe57	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB659	73053311a866e6b908fc6a9d7726a4f89ecc78c42a459a15a41d87b72cb90fd2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 659 (20232024) — California Water Supply Solutions Act of 2023.

Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources to update every 5 years the plan for the orderly and coordinated control, protection, conservation, development, and use of the water resources of the state, which is known as "The California Water Plan." Existing law requires the department to establish an advisory committee, composed of representatives of agricultural and urban water suppliers, local government, business, production agriculture, and environmental interests, and other interested parties, to assist the department in the updating of the California Water Plan. Existing law requires the department to include a discussion of various strategies in the plan update, including, but not limited to, strategies relating to the development of new water storage facilities, water conservation, water recycling, desalination, conjunctive use, water transfers, and alternative pricing policies that may be pursued in order to meet the future needs of the state.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/20/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/12/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/18/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/30/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/12/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/01/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 10/08/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. SB659 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/13/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• SB 659 Ashby Senate Third Reading By Bauer-Kahan — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB659 Ashby et al. Concurrence — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Rules] — 10–0 (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 as amended. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ashby — primary (person)
• Caballero — principal coauthor (person)
• Schiavo — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-16 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2023-02-17 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
• 2023-03-01 Referred to Com. on N.R. & W. referral-committee
• 2023-03-20 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-03-23 Set for hearing April 11.
• 2023-04-11 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on RLS. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 658.) (April 11). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-12 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-04-19 Re-referred to Com. on E.Q. referral-committee
• 2023-04-19 Set for hearing April 26.
• 2023-04-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 936.) (April 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-05-01 Set for hearing May 8.
• 2023-05-08 May 8 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2023-05-12 Set for hearing May 18.
• 2023-05-18 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1179.) (May 18). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-18 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-26 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2023-05-30 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1365.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-31 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2023-06-15 Referred to Com. on W., P., & W. referral-committee
• 2023-06-30 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
• 2023-07-11 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (July 11). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-07-12 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-08-16 August 16 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2023-09-01 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (September 1). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-07 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3066.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-07 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2023-09-11 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2605.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-15 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2023-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 624, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1c17dcab-f193-4ca0-9ede-3de3f9aafe57. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).