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CA SB 466

enacted

Drinking water: primary standard for hexavalent chromium: exemption.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

Quick answers

Did CA SB 466 pass?

Yes. CA SB 466 has been enacted into law as of 2025-10-03. Latest recorded action (2025-10-03): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 320, Statutes of 2025.

What is CA SB 466 about?

The California Safe Drinking Water Act provides for the operation of public water systems and imposes on the State Water Resources Control Board various duties and responsibilities for the regulation and control of drinking water in the State of California. The act requires the state board to adopt primary drinking water standards for contaminants in drinking water based upon specified criteria, and requires a primary drinking water standard to be established for hexavalent chromium. Existing law authorizes the state board to grant a variance from primary drinking water standards to a public water system. This bill would prohibit a public water system that meets the total chromium maximum contaminant level (MCL) enforceable standard for drinking water in California from being determined, held, considered, or otherwise deemed in violation of the primary drinking water standard for hexavalent chromium while implementing a state board approved compliance plan or while state board action on the proposed and submitted compliance plan is pending, except as provided.

Who sponsors CA SB 466?

Caballero is the primary sponsor of CA SB 466, joined by 2 cosponsors.

Description

The California Safe Drinking Water Act provides for the operation of public water systems and imposes on the State Water Resources Control Board various duties and responsibilities for the regulation and control of drinking water in the State of California. The act requires the state board to adopt primary drinking water standards for contaminants in drinking water based upon specified criteria, and requires a primary drinking water standard to be established for hexavalent chromium. Existing law authorizes the state board to grant a variance from primary drinking water standards to a public water system. This bill would prohibit a public water system that meets the total chromium maximum contaminant level (MCL) enforceable standard for drinking water in California from being determined, held, considered, or otherwise deemed in violation of the primary drinking water standard for hexavalent chromium while implementing a state board approved compliance plan or while state board action on the proposed and submitted compliance plan is pending, except as provided.

Introduced
2025-02-19
Latest action
2025-10-03 — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 320, Statutes of 2025.
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Caballeroauthor
  • Macedocoauthor
  • Soriacoauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-02-19

    Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

    introduction,reading-1,referral-committee

  2. 2025-02-20

    From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.

  3. 2025-02-26

    Referred to Com. on RLS.

    referral-committee

  4. 2025-03-24

    From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.

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  5. 2025-04-02

    Re-referred to Coms. on E.Q. and JUD.

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  6. 2025-04-04

    Set for hearing April 23.

  7. 2025-04-11

    Set for hearing April 29 in JUD. pending receipt.

  8. 2025-04-23

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 866.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

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  9. 2025-04-30

    From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0. Page 941.) (April 29).

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  10. 2025-05-01

    Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  11. 2025-05-09

    Set for hearing May 19.

  12. 2025-05-19

    From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.

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  13. 2025-05-20

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  14. 2025-05-21

    Ordered to second reading.

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  15. 2025-05-21

    Read third time and amended.

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  16. 2025-05-22

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  17. 2025-05-28

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1275.) Ordered to the Assembly.

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  18. 2025-05-28

    In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

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  19. 2025-06-05

    Referred to Coms. on E.S & T.M. and JUD.

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  20. 2025-06-24

    From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.S & T.M.

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  21. 2025-07-02

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

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  22. 2025-07-16

    From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (July 15).

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  23. 2025-07-17

    Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  24. 2025-08-20

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 20).

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  25. 2025-08-21

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  26. 2025-08-25

    Ordered to third reading.

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  27. 2025-08-25

    Read third time and amended.

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  28. 2025-09-02

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2817.) Ordered to the Senate.

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  29. 2025-09-03

    In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.

  30. 2025-09-09

    Ordered to special consent calendar.

  31. 2025-09-11

    Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2928.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

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  32. 2025-09-22

    Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.

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  33. 2025-10-03

    Approved by the Governor.

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  34. 2025-10-03

    Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 320, Statutes of 2025.

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Versions

  • 02/19/25 - Introduced — 2025-02-19Compare
  • 03/24/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-03-24Compare
  • 05/01/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-05-01Compare
  • 05/21/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-05-21Compare
  • 06/24/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-06-24Compare
  • 07/17/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-07-17Compare
  • 08/25/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-08-25Compare
  • 09/16/25 - Enrolled — 2025-09-16Compare
  • 10/03/25 - Chaptered — 2025-10-03Compare
  • (document, no version)Compare
  • SB466Compare

Documents

Votes

  • Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar

    2025-04-23 · pass · 8-0

    Member-level votes (8)
    • Pérez: yes
    • Hurtado: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Dahle: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Valladares: yes
    • Blakespear: yes

  • Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations]

    2025-04-29 · pass · 13-0

    Member-level votes (13)
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Niello: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Valladares: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Stern: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Wiener: yes

  • 3rd Reading

    2025-05-28 · pass · 37-0

    Member-level votes (40)
    • McNerney: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Becker: yes
    • Ochoa Bogh: yes
    • Rubio: yes
    • Strickland: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Archuleta: yes
    • McGuire: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Blakespear: yes
    • Choi: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Hurtado: yes
    • Valladares: yes
    • Jones: yes
    • Alvarado-Gil: yes
    • Grove: yes
    • Dahle: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Niello: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Stern: yes
    • Pérez: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Limón: other
    • Reyes: other
    • Cervantes: other

  • Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary]

    2025-07-01 · pass · 7-0

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

  • Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]

    2025-07-15 · pass · 12-0

    Member-level votes (12)
    • Stefani: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Macedo: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Zbur: yes

  • Do pass.

    2025-08-20 · pass · 15-0

    Member-level votes (15)
    • Fong: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Tangipa: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Jeff Gonzalez: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Mark González: yes

  • SB 466 Caballero Senate Third Reading By Soria

    2025-09-02 · pass · 77-0

    Member-level votes (79)
    • Alvarez: yes
    • Addis: yes
    • Alanis: yes
    • Valencia: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Ransom: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • Rivas: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Hoover: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • Tangipa: yes
    • Schultz: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • DeMaio: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Castillo: yes
    • Schiavo: yes
    • Patterson: yes
    • Michelle Rodriguez: yes
    • Irwin: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Ramos: yes
    • Davies: yes
    • Lee: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Bennett: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Macedo: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Ortega: yes
    • Jeff Gonzalez: yes
    • Chen: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Bains: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Gipson: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Boerner: yes
    • McKinnor: yes
    • Wallis: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Soria: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Lackey: yes
    • Petrie-Norris: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Hadwick: yes
    • Ahrens: yes
    • Flora: yes
    • Nguyen: yes
    • Gallagher: yes
    • Ellis: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Carrillo: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Blanca Rubio: yes
    • Quirk-Silva: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • Muratsuchi: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Rogers: yes
    • Bonta: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Celeste Rodriguez: yes
    • Ward: yes
    • Berman: other
    • Gabriel: other

  • Special Consent SB466 Caballero et al.

    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

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