CA AB 43

enacted

Wild and scenic rivers.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Quick answers

Did CA AB 43 pass?

Yes. CA AB 43 has been enacted into law as of 2025-10-07. Latest recorded action (2025-10-07): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 431, Statutes of 2025.

What is CA AB 43 about?

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. This bill would indefinitely extend the date by which the secretary is authorized to take the specified actions relating to the addition of rivers or segments of rivers to the state's wild and scenic rivers system, as described above. The bill would also indefinitely extend the date that these actions remain in effect, except as otherwise provided.

Who sponsors CA AB 43?

Schultz is the primary sponsor of CA AB 43.

Description

Introduced: —
Latest action: 2025-10-07 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 431, Statutes of 2025.
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

Subjects

Wildandscenicrivers

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

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,reading-3
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,referral-committee
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.
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2025-07-08
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
reading-1,reading-2,reading-3
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.
executive-receipt
2025-10-07
Approved by the Governor.
executive-signature
2025-10-07
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 431, Statutes of 2025.
became-law

Versions

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09/05/25 - Enrolled — 2025-09-05Compare
10/07/25 - Chaptered — 2025-10-07Compare
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Votes

Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-03-24 · pass · 11-0
Member-level votes (14)
- Zbur: yes
- Haney: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Davies: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Wicks: other
- Sanchez: other
- Flora: other
Do pass.
2025-05-23 · pass · 11-1
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
- Tangipa: no
- Ta: other
- Sanchez: other
- Dixon: other
AB 43 Schultz Assembly Third Reading
2025-05-29 · pass · 57-3
Member-level votes (79)
- Lackey: other
- Solache: other
- Castillo: other
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Haney: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Hart: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Lee: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Papan: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Berman: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Addis: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Patel: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Bains: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Fong: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Krell: yes
- Davies: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- DeMaio: no
- Gallagher: no
- Patterson: no
- Nguyen: other
- Soria: other
- Dixon: other
- Alvarez: other
- Sharp-Collins: other
- Chen: other
- Ward: other
- Flora: other
- Hadwick: other
- Macedo: other
- Bryan: other
- Jeff Gonzalez: other
- Hoover: other
- Tangipa: other
- Sanchez: other
- Ta: other
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-06-24 · pass · 5-2
Member-level votes (7)
- Laird: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Allen: yes
- Stern: yes
- Limón: yes
- Seyarto: no
- Grove: no
3rd Reading AB43 Schultz By Laird
2025-09-03 · pass · 30-10
Member-level votes (40)
- Becker: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Stern: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Limón: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Allen: yes
- Padilla: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Grayson: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Laird: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Reyes: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Seyarto: no
- Strickland: no
- Jones: no
- Valladares: no
- Alvarado-Gil: no
- Niello: no
- Grove: no
- Ochoa Bogh: no
- Choi: no
- Dahle: no

Related bills

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http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB43

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