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CA AB 763

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Timber harvesting: waste discharge requirements.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Description

The Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act requires a California regional water quality control board to prescribe waste discharge requirements for the discharge of pollutants into state waters and authorizes the regional board to prescribe general waste discharge requirements for a category of discharges if the regional board finds or determines that certain criteria apply to the discharges in that category. This bill would require, for a regional board that has adopted general waste discharge requirements for timber harvesting, the regional board to approve, deny, or otherwise act on a request for coverage for timber harvesting operations performed consistent with an approved timber harvesting plan subject to those general waste discharge requirements.

Introduced
2026-01-05
Status date
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Latest action
2026-05-06 — Referred to Com. on E.Q.
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Wardauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-02-18

    Read first time. To print.

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  2. 2025-02-19

    From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.

  3. 2025-03-24

    Referred to Coms. on W. P., & W. and E.S & T.M.

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  4. 2025-04-04

    In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

  5. 2026-01-05

    From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on W. P., & W. Read second time and amended.

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  6. 2026-01-05

    Re-referred to Com. on W. P., & W.

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  7. 2026-01-05

    Re-referred to Com. on E.S & T.M. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96.

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  8. 2026-01-13

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (January 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  9. 2026-01-22

    From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (January 22).

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  10. 2026-01-26

    Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.

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  11. 2026-01-29

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 3884.)

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  12. 2026-01-29

    In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

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  13. 2026-05-06

    Referred to Com. on E.Q.

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Versions

Documents

Votes

  • Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar

    2026-01-13 · pass · 7-0

    Member-level votes (7)
    • Lee: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Castillo: yes
    • Ellis: yes
    • McKinnor: yes

  • Do pass. To Consent Calendar.

    2026-01-22 · pass · 15-0

    Member-level votes (15)
    • Hoover: yes
    • Tangipa: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Dixon: yes

  • AB 763 Ward Consent Calendar Second Day

    2026-01-29 · pass · 70-0

    Member-level votes (80)
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Ramos: yes
    • Schultz: yes
    • Ahrens: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Carrillo: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Michelle Rodriguez: yes
    • Alvarez: yes
    • Bains: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Patterson: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Berman: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Muratsuchi: yes
    • Macedo: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Gallagher: yes
    • Nguyen: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Boerner: yes
    • Bennett: yes
    • Tangipa: yes
    • Rivas: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Rogers: yes
    • Hadwick: yes
    • Jeff Gonzalez: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • Petrie-Norris: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Irwin: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Soria: yes
    • Bonta: yes
    • Blanca Rubio: yes
    • DeMaio: yes
    • McKinnor: yes
    • Lackey: yes
    • Hoover: yes
    • Ortega: yes
    • Wallis: yes
    • Johnson: yes
    • Gabriel: yes
    • Schiavo: yes
    • Castillo: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • Davies: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Addis: yes
    • Ward: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Quirk-Silva: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Alanis: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Arambula: other
    • Bauer-Kahan: other
    • Celeste Rodriguez: other
    • Chen: other
    • Ransom: other
    • Flora: other
    • Gipson: other
    • Lee: other
    • Ellis: other
    • Valencia: other

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http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB763

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