CA SB 369
vetoedSalton Sea: restoration projects: skilled and trained workforce.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper
Quick answers
Did CA SB 369 pass?
No. CA SB 369 passed the legislature but was vetoed on 2026-03-02. Latest recorded action (2026-03-02): Veto sustained.
What is CA SB 369 about?
Existing law requires the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency, in consultation and coordination with the Salton Sea Authority, to lead Salton Sea restoration efforts. Existing law, to the extent that funding is appropriated to the Department of Fish and Wildlife for Salton Sea restoration activities, authorizes the Department of Water Resources, in coordination and under agreement with the Department of Fish and Wildlife, to undertake certain restoration efforts. This bill would require, except as provided, specified state agencies undertaking a Salton Sea restoration project in excess of $1,000,000 to obtain, as part of a contract entered into on or after January 1, 2026, an enforceable commitment that every bidder, contractor, subcontractor, or other entity at every tier, as defined, shall use a skilled and trained workforce, as provided, to perform all work that falls within an apprenticeship occupation in the building and construction trades.
Who sponsors CA SB 369?
Padilla is the primary sponsor of CA SB 369.
Description
Existing law requires the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency, in consultation and coordination with the Salton Sea Authority, to lead Salton Sea restoration efforts. Existing law, to the extent that funding is appropriated to the Department of Fish and Wildlife for Salton Sea restoration activities, authorizes the Department of Water Resources, in coordination and under agreement with the Department of Fish and Wildlife, to undertake certain restoration efforts. This bill would require, except as provided, specified state agencies undertaking a Salton Sea restoration project in excess of $1,000,000 to obtain, as part of a contract entered into on or after January 1, 2026, an enforceable commitment that every bidder, contractor, subcontractor, or other entity at every tier, as defined, shall use a skilled and trained workforce, as provided, to perform all work that falls within an apprenticeship occupation in the building and construction trades.
- Introduced
- 2025-02-13
- Latest action
- 2026-03-02 — Veto sustained.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Padillaauthor
Committees
Not provided by source.
Action timeline
2025-02-13
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
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2025-02-14
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 16.
2025-02-26
Referred to Coms. on N.R. & W. and G.O.
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2025-03-12
Set for hearing March 25.
2025-03-17
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W.
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2025-03-25
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on G.O. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 532.) (March 25). Re-referred to Com. on G.O.
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2025-03-26
Withdrawn from committee.
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2025-03-26
Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-03-28
Set for hearing April 7.
2025-04-03
April 7 hearing postponed by committee.
2025-04-04
Set for hearing April 21.
2025-04-21
April 21 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
2025-05-16
Set for hearing May 23.
2025-05-23
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-05-23
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 1198.) (May 23).
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2025-06-02
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 33. Noes 2. Page 1365.) Ordered to the Assembly.
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2025-06-03
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
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2025-06-09
Referred to Coms. on W. P., & W. and L. & E.
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2025-07-01
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on L. & E.
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2025-07-10
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-08-20
August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
2025-08-29
From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 1.) (August 29).
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2025-09-02
Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
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2025-09-03
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-09-08
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 69. Noes 5. Page 3001.) Ordered to the Senate.
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2025-09-08
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2025-09-10
Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2763.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
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2025-09-17
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
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2025-10-13
Vetoed by the Governor.
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2025-10-13
In Senate. Consideration of Governor's veto pending.
2026-03-02
Veto sustained.
2026-03-02
Stricken from file.
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Votes
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Governmental Organization]
2025-03-25 · pass · 6-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Allen: yes
- Laird: yes
- Limón: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Stern: yes
- Grove: yes
- Seyarto: other
Placed on suspense file
2025-04-21 · pass · 6-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Grayson: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Dahle: other
Do pass
2025-05-23 · pass · 5-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Caballero: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Dahle: other
- Seyarto: other
3rd Reading
2025-06-02 · pass · 33-2
Member-level votes (40)
- Menjivar: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Jones: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Becker: yes
- Laird: yes
- Durazo: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Limón: yes
- Allen: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Stern: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: no
- Grove: no
- Niello: other
- Seyarto: other
- Reyes: other
- Choi: other
- Hurtado: other
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Labor and Employment]
2025-07-01 · pass · 12-0
Member-level votes (13)
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Hart: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Papan: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Bains: yes
- Macedo: other
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-07-09 · pass · 6-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Kalra: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Ward: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Lee: yes
- Chen: yes
- Flora: other
Do pass as amended.
2025-08-29 · pass · 13-1
Member-level votes (15)
- Ta: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Fong: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Solache: yes
- Dixon: no
- Sanchez: other
SB 369 Padilla Senate Third Reading By Ortega
2025-09-08 · pass · 69-5
Member-level votes (80)
- Ahrens: 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
- Lee: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Ta: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Solache: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Davies: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Krell: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Patel: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Chen: yes
- Flora: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Johnson: no
- Dixon: no
- Macedo: no
- Ellis: no
- DeMaio: no
- Hoover: other
- Nguyen: other
- Hadwick: other
- Gallagher: other
- Sanchez: other
- Castillo: other
Unfinished Business SB369 Padilla Concurrence
2025-09-10 · pass · 39-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Umberg: yes
- Grove: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Niello: yes
- Jones: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: yes
- Limón: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Laird: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Rubio: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Reyes: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Stern: yes
- Allen: yes
- Caballero: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Becker: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Choi: other
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