CA AB 1373
vetoedWater quality: state certification.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower
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Did CA AB 1373 pass?
No. CA AB 1373 passed the legislature but was vetoed. Latest recorded action (2026-01-22): Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file.
What is CA AB 1373 about?
Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements in accordance with the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Under federal law, any applicant seeking a federal license or permit for an activity that may result in any discharge into the navigable waters of the United States is required to first seek a state water quality certification, as specified. The Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act authorizes the state board to certify or provide a statement to a federal agency, as required pursuant to federal law, that there is reasonable assurance that an activity of any person subject to the jurisdiction of the state board will not reduce water quality below applicable standards. The federal act provides that if a state fails or refuses to act on a request for this certification within a reasonable period of time, which shall not exceed one year after receipt of the request, then the state certification requirements are waived with respect to the federal application. This bill would require the state board, if requested by the applicant within 14 days of an initial draft certification being issued, to hold a public hearing at least 21 days before taking action on an application for certification for a license to operate a hydroelectric facility, as provided. The bill would, if a public hearing is requested on the draft certification, prohibit the authority to issue a certification for a license to operate a hydroelectric facility from being delegated. The bill would authorize the state board to include in its fee schedule for hydroelectric facility applicants an amount up to the reasonable costs incurred by the state board in implementing these provisions.
Who sponsors CA AB 1373?
Soria is the primary sponsor of CA AB 1373.
Description
Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements in accordance with the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Under federal law, any applicant seeking a federal license or permit for an activity that may result in any discharge into the navigable waters of the United States is required to first seek a state water quality certification, as specified. The Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act authorizes the state board to certify or provide a statement to a federal agency, as required pursuant to federal law, that there is reasonable assurance that an activity of any person subject to the jurisdiction of the state board will not reduce water quality below applicable standards. The federal act provides that if a state fails or refuses to act on a request for this certification within a reasonable period of time, which shall not exceed one year after receipt of the request, then the state certification requirements are waived with respect to the federal application. This bill would require the state board, if requested by the applicant within 14 days of an initial draft certification being issued, to hold a public hearing at least 21 days before taking action on an application for certification for a license to operate a hydroelectric facility, as provided. The bill would, if a public hearing is requested on the draft certification, prohibit the authority to issue a certification for a license to operate a hydroelectric facility from being delegated. The bill would authorize the state board to include in its fee schedule for hydroelectric facility applicants an amount up to the reasonable costs incurred by the state board in implementing these provisions.
- Introduced
- 2025-02-21
- Latest action
- 2026-01-22 — Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Soriaauthor
Committees
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Action timeline
Newest first
2026-01-22
Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file.
veto-override-failure
2025-10-11
Consideration of Governor's veto pending.
2025-10-11
Vetoed by Governor.
executive-veto
2025-09-24
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
executive-receipt
2025-09-12
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2025-09-12
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 3421.).
amendment-passage,committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2025-09-11
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2931.).
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2025-09-09
Ordered to special consent calendar.
2025-09-02
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-08-29
Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
amendment-passage,reading-1,reading-2
2025-08-29
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29).
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2025-08-18
In committee: Referred to suspense file.
referral-committee
2025-07-16
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2025-06-18
Referred to Com. on E.Q.
referral-committee
2025-06-04
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
reading-1,referral-committee
2025-06-03
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 2017.)
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2025-05-27
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
reading-1,reading-2,reading-3
2025-05-23
Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 51. Noes 16. Page 1644.)
2025-05-23
Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
amendment-passage,reading-1,reading-2
2025-05-23
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 23).
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2025-05-14
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
referral-committee
2025-04-30
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2025-04-09
Re-referred to Com. on E.S & T.M.
referral-committee
2025-04-08
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E.S & T.M. Read second time and amended.
amendment-introduction,amendment-passage,committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2,referral-committee
2025-03-25
Re-referred to Com. on E.S & T.M.
referral-committee
2025-03-24
Referred to Com. on E.S & T.M.
referral-committee
2025-03-24
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E.S & T.M. Read second time and amended.
amendment-introduction,amendment-passage,committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2,referral-committee
2025-02-24
Read first time.
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2025-02-22
From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
2025-02-21
Introduced. To print.
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Versions
- 02/21/25 - Introduced — 2025-02-21Compare
- 03/24/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-03-24Compare
- 04/08/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-04-08Compare
- 05/23/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-05-23Compare
- 08/29/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-08-29Compare
- 09/16/25 - Enrolled — 2025-09-16Compare
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Votes
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-04-29 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- McKinnor: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Papan: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Lee: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
Do pass as amended.
2025-05-23 · pass · 11-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Calderon: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Hart: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Solache: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Fong: yes
- Ta: other
- Sanchez: other
- Dixon: other
- Tangipa: other
AB 1373 Soria Assembly Third Reading
2025-06-04 · pass · 74-0
Member-level votes (79)
- Berman: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Fong: yes
- Flora: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Haney: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Soria: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Chen: yes
- Papan: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Bains: yes
- Addis: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Ta: yes
- Solache: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Lee: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Patel: yes
- Ward: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Krell: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Davies: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Hart: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- McKinnor: other
- Sanchez: other
- Muratsuchi: other
- Hadwick: other
- DeMaio: other
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2025-07-16 · pass · 8-0
Member-level votes (8)
- Hurtado: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Dahle: yes
Placed on suspense file
2025-08-18 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Richardson: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Grayson: yes
Do pass as amended
2025-08-29 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Richardson: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
Special Consent AB1373 Soria By Caballero
2025-09-11 · pass · 40-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Valladares: yes
- Umberg: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Jones: yes
- Reyes: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Allen: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Limón: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Niello: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Choi: yes
- Laird: yes
- Stern: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Grove: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Becker: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Wahab: yes
AB 1373 Soria Concurrence in Senate Amendments
2025-09-13 · pass · 73-0
Member-level votes (80)
- Ahrens: yes
- Johnson: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Addis: yes
- Ward: yes
- Haney: yes
- Hart: yes
- Fong: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Bains: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Soria: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Berman: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Papan: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Lee: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Ta: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Solache: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Davies: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Krell: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Patel: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Chen: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Muratsuchi: other
- Lackey: other
- Sanchez: other
- Gabriel: other
- Zbur: other
- Flora: other
- DeMaio: other
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