Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| Bill | Oil spill prevention: gasoline specifications: suspension: California Environmental Quality Act: exemptions: County of Kern: transportation fuels assessment: coastal resources. | (1) The Lempert-Keene-Seastrand Oil Spill Prevention and Response Act generally requires the administrator for oil spill response, acting at the direction of the Governor, to implement activities relating to oil spill response, including emergency drills and preparedness, and oil spill containment and cleanup, and to represent the state in any coordinated response efforts with the federal government. Existing law requires the Governor to establish a California oil spill contingency plan that provides for an integrated and effective state procedure to combat the results of major oil spills within the state and that specifies state agencies to implement the plan. Existing law requires the administrator to adopt and implement regulations governing the adequacy of oil spill contingency plans to be prepared and implemented and requires the regulations to provide for the best achievable protection of coastal and marine waters. Existing law requires these regulations to permit the development, application, and use of an oil spill contingency plan for similar vessels, pipelines, terminals, and facilities within a single company or organization, and across companies and organizations. Existing law requires these regulations to ensure, among other things, standards for determining a reasonable worst case oil spill. | us/states/ca | California Legislature | 20252026 | SB 237 | California SB 237 (20252026) |
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California SB 237 (20252026) — Oil spill prevention: gasoline specifications: suspension: California Environmental Quality Act: exemptions: County of Kern: transportation fuels assessment: coastal resources.
(1) The Lempert-Keene-Seastrand Oil Spill Prevention and Response Act generally requires the administrator for oil spill response, acting at the direction of the Governor, to implement activities relating to oil spill response, including emergency drills and preparedness, and oil spill containment and cleanup, and to represent the state in any coordinated response efforts with the federal government. Existing law requires the Governor to establish a California oil spill contingency plan that provides for an integrated and effective state procedure to combat the results of major oil spills within the state and that specifies state agencies to implement the plan. Existing law requires the administrator to adopt and implement regulations governing the adequacy of oil spill contingency plans to be prepared and implemented and requires the regulations to provide for the best achievable protection of coastal and marine waters. Existing law requires these regulations to permit the development, application, and use of an oil spill contingency plan for similar vessels, pipelines, terminals, and facilities within a single company or organization, and across companies and organizations. Existing law requires these regulations to ensure, among other things, standards for determining a reasonable worst case oil spill.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- 01/29/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
- 03/20/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
- 05/08/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
- 06/23/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
- 07/10/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
- 09/10/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
- 09/19/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
- SB237 (committee substitute) — source
- 09/15/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source
Votes
- SB 237 Grayson Senate Third Reading By WILSON — 66–4 (pass) · lower
- W/O REF. TO FILE — 28–0 (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — 11–2 (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd — 34–0 (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 12–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Grayson — primary (person)
- Arreguín — coauthor (person)
- Cabaldon — coauthor (person)
- Caballero — principal coauthor (person)
- Hurtado — author (person)
- McNerney — author (person)
- Richardson — author (person)
- Wilson — author (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2025-01-29 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
introduction, reading-1 - 2025-01-30 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 1.
- 2025-02-05 Referred to Com. on RLS.
referral-committee - 2025-03-20 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee - 2025-04-02 Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
referral-committee - 2025-04-11 Set for hearing May 6.
- 2025-05-07 From committee: Do pass as amended. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0. Page 1026.) (May 6).
amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable - 2025-05-08 Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar.
amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2 - 2025-05-15 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 1090.) Ordered to the Assembly.
passage, reading-1, reading-3 - 2025-05-15 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
reading-1 - 2025-05-29 Referred to Com. on JUD.
referral-committee - 2025-06-23 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee - 2025-06-27 Re-referred to Coms. on U. & E. and NAT. RES. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96.
referral-committee - 2025-07-10 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on U. & E.
amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee - 2025-07-14 Assembly Rule 56 suspended.
- 2025-07-15 July 16 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
- 2025-09-09 Joint Rule 61(a)(13) suspended. (Ayes 60. Noes 20. Page 3128.)
- 2025-09-10 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on U. & E.
amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee - 2025-09-10 Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96.
referral-committee - 2025-09-10 Joint Rule 61(a) suspended. (Ayes 68. Noes 0. Page 3191.)
- 2025-09-10 Joint Rule 62(a) suspended.
- 2025-09-10 Joint Rule 61 and 62(a) suspended. (Ayes 31. Noes 9. Page 2801.)
- 2025-09-10 (Corrected September 10).
- 2025-09-12 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 2.) (September 12).
committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable - 2025-09-12 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 57. Noes 20. Page 3441.)
- 2025-09-13 Joint Rule 61(a)(14) and 51(a)(4) suspended. (Ayes 59. Noes 20. Page 3413.)
- 2025-09-13 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 66. Noes 4. Page 3484.) Ordered to the Senate.
passage, reading-1, reading-3 - 2025-09-13 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- 2025-09-13 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 28. Noes 0. Page 3056.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable - 2025-09-15 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- 2025-09-19 Approved by the Governor.
executive-signature - 2025-09-19 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 118, Statutes of 2025.
became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/91b3d550-490e-44e9-beeb-59107cb53bce. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).