republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/sb-1156.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Groundwater sustainability agencies: conflicts of interest: financial interest disclosures."
description: "Existing law, the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, requires all groundwater basins designated as high- or medium-priority basins by the Department of Water Resources to be managed under a groundwater sustainability plan or coordinated groundwater sustainability plans, except as specified. Existing law requires a groundwater sustainability plan to be developed and implemented for each medium- or high-priority basin by a groundwater sustainability agency. Existing law authorizes any local agency or combination of local agencies overlying a groundwater basin to decide to become a groundwater sustainability agency for that basin, as provided."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "SB 1156"
citation: "California SB 1156 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Groundwater sustainability agencies", "conflicts of interest", "financial interest disclosures"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hurtado"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 30
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2024-02-14"
last_action: "2024-09-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/068a75a4-5be0-405e-a342-7ba21b6a2cb2"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1156"
source_hash: "4958e7c3ee4476a4ab65a66dfd54242a2e7c4684e3218ab6c2bab1bfa1e9271b"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California SB 1156 (20232024) — Groundwater sustainability agencies: conflicts of interest: financial interest disclosures.

Existing law, the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, requires all groundwater basins designated as high- or medium-priority basins by the Department of Water Resources to be managed under a groundwater sustainability plan or coordinated groundwater sustainability plans, except as specified. Existing law requires a groundwater sustainability plan to be developed and implemented for each medium- or high-priority basin by a groundwater sustainability agency. Existing law authorizes any local agency or combination of local agencies overlying a groundwater basin to decide to become a groundwater sustainability agency for that basin, as provided.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/14/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1156&version=20230SB115699INT)
2. **04/29/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1156&version=20230SB115698AMD)
3. **06/18/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1156&version=20230SB115697AMD)
4. **09/22/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1156&version=20230SB115695CHP)
5. **SB1156** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1156)
6. **08/23/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1156&version=20230SB115696ENR)

## Votes

- Special Consent SB1156 Hurtado et al. — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Elections and Constitutional Amendments] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 1156 Hurtado Consent Calendar Second Day — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **14–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hurtado — primary (person)
- Bennett — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-14** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-15** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 16.
- **2024-02-21** Referred to Coms. on N.R. & W. and E. & C.A. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Set for hearing April 9.
- **2024-04-05** Set for hearing April 16 in E. & C.A. pending receipt.
- **2024-04-09** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E. & C.A. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 3532.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-16** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3630.) (April 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-22** Set for hearing April 29.
- **2024-04-25** April 29 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2024-04-29** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-30** Set for hearing May 6.
- **2024-05-06** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2024-05-07** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-05-09** From consent calendar on motion of Senator Blakespear.
- **2024-05-09** Ordered to third reading.
- **2024-05-20** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4028.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-05-21** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2024-06-03** Referred to Com. on ELECTIONS. `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-18** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ELECTIONS. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-26** Coauthors revised.
- **2024-06-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-08-07** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (August 7). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-08-08** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-15** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 6320.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-15** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2024-08-20** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2024-08-22** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 5297.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-08-27** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2024-09-22** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-09-22** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 458, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/068a75a4-5be0-405e-a342-7ba21b6a2cb2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).