republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/sb-394.md

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Bill	Water theft: fire hydrants.	Existing law authorizes a utility to bring a civil action for damages against any person who commits, authorizes, solicits, aids, abets, or attempts certain acts, including, diverting or causing to be diverted, utility services by any means whatsoever. Existing law creates a rebuttable presumption that there is violation of these provisions if, on premises controlled by the customer or by the person using or receiving the direct benefit of utility service, certain actions occur, including that there is an instrument, apparatus, or device primarily designed to be used to obtain utility service without paying the full lawful charge for the utility.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	SB 394	California SB 394 (20252026)	bill	Watertheft firehydrants	enacted	Allen	6	28	7	2025-02-14	2025-10-10	openstates	ocd-bill/fccaa090-b3b1-4915-b6eb-df9e9268e246	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB394	45ce369082c97f5b98eaafc3a8fe1006a33fafd6e92902f8e9c13c283c1d7190	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 394 (20252026) — Water theft: fire hydrants.

Existing law authorizes a utility to bring a civil action for damages against any person who commits, authorizes, solicits, aids, abets, or attempts certain acts, including, diverting or causing to be diverted, utility services by any means whatsoever. Existing law creates a rebuttable presumption that there is violation of these provisions if, on premises controlled by the customer or by the person using or receiving the direct benefit of utility service, certain actions occur, including that there is an instrument, apparatus, or device primarily designed to be used to obtain utility service without paying the full lawful charge for the utility.

Version chain

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

1. 02/14/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/09/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/03/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/10/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. SB394 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/27/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent SB394 Allen et al. — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 394 Allen Consent Calendar Second Day — 72–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Allen — primary (person)
• Rubio — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-14 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2025-02-18 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17.
• 2025-02-26 Referred to Coms. on L. GOV., JUD., and APPR. referral-committee
• 2025-03-04 Set for hearing March 19.
• 2025-03-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 422.) (March 19). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-03-24 Set for hearing April 1.
• 2025-04-02 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0. Page 610.) (April 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-04-04 Set for hearing April 21.
• 2025-04-16 April 21 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2025-04-21 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2025-04-21 Ordered to second reading.
• 2025-04-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-27 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1239.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-05-28 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2025-06-05 Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2025-06-09 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-06-18 Coauthors revised.
• 2025-06-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-07-02 From committee: Do pass as amended. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (July 1). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-07-03 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-07-07 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-07-10 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 2509.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-07-10 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2025-08-21 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2025-08-25 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2253.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-02 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
• 2025-10-10 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-10 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 540, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fccaa090-b3b1-4915-b6eb-df9e9268e246. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).