republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/ab-43.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Wild and scenic rivers."
description: "Existing law requires the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency to take specified actions relating to the addition of rivers or segments of rivers to the state's wild and scenic rivers system if, among other things, the federal government enacts a statute that, upon enactment, would require the removal or delisting of any river or segment of a river in the state that was included in the national wild and scenic rivers system and not in the state wild and scenic rivers system. Existing law authorizes, only until December 31, 2025, the secretary to take action under these provisions to add a river or segment of a river to the state wild and scenic rivers system. Existing law requires those actions to remain in effect until December 31, 2025, except as otherwise provided."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "AB 43"
citation: "California AB 43 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Wildandscenicrivers"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Schultz"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-12-02"
last_action: "2025-10-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f3239e53-b2ad-40b3-bd0b-f7464b2db882"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB43"
source_hash: "76a6df6799ac536002f4fba722da134d8083e3d576a98948113c82a914a1fccb"
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 AB 43 (20252026) — Wild and scenic rivers.

Existing law requires the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency to take specified actions relating to the addition of rivers or segments of rivers to the state's wild and scenic rivers system if, among other things, the federal government enacts a statute that, upon enactment, would require the removal or delisting of any river or segment of a river in the state that was included in the national wild and scenic rivers system and not in the state wild and scenic rivers system. Existing law authorizes, only until December 31, 2025, the secretary to take action under these provisions to add a river or segment of a river to the state wild and scenic rivers system. Existing law requires those actions to remain in effect until December 31, 2025, except as otherwise provided.

## Version chain

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

1. **12/02/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB43&version=20250AB4399INT)
2. **10/07/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB43&version=20250AB4397CHP)
3. **AB43** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB43)
4. **09/05/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB43&version=20250AB4398ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **11–1** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB43 Schultz By Laird — **30–10** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- AB 43 Schultz Assembly Third Reading — **57–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Schultz — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-02** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2024-12-03** From printer. May be heard in committee January 2.
- **2025-02-03** Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-25** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (March 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-23** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (May 23). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-05-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 57. Noes 3. Page 1775.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-05-29** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2025-06-11** Referred to Com. on N.R. & W. `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-24** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-07** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2025-07-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-09-03** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 10. Page 2457.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-09-03** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2025-09-09** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2025-10-07** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-10-07** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 431, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f3239e53-b2ad-40b3-bd0b-f7464b2db882`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).