CA SB 650
enactedThe Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Reform Act of 2009.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper
Quick answers
Did CA SB 650 pass?
Yes. CA SB 650 has been enacted into law as of 2025-10-03. Latest recorded action (2025-10-03): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 324, Statutes of 2025.
What is CA SB 650 about?
Existing law, the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Reform Act of 2009, provides that it is the intent of the Legislature to provide for the sustainable management of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta ecosystem, to provide for a more reliable water supply for the state, to protect and enhance the quality of water supply from the Delta, as defined, and to establish a governance structure that will direct efforts across state agencies to develop a legally enforceable Delta Plan. This bill would make the provisions of the Delta Plan severable. Existing law establishes the Delta Stewardship Council as an independent agency of the state to establish and oversee a committee of agencies responsible for implementing the Delta Plan. Existing law requires council members to possess diverse expertise and reflect a statewide perspective. The bill would state that it is the intent of the Legislature that the council appointees have knowledge about the Delta. Existing law authorizes persons and certain entities, claiming that a proposed covered action is inconsistent with the Delta Plan and that, as a result of that inconsistency, the action will have a significant adverse impact on the achievement of certain goals or implementation of government-sponsored flood control programs to reduce risks to people and property in the Delta, to file an appeal with regard to a certification of consistency submitted to the Delta Stewardship Council. Existing law requires the appeal to be heard by the council within 60 days of the date of the filing of the appeal, as specified, and requires the council to make its decision on the appeal within 60 days of hearing the appeal. This bill would provide certain deadlines for legal actions arising out of specified actions of the council and would make related changes. The bill would add state and local public agencies to those entities authorized to appeal regarding a certification of consistency.
Who sponsors CA SB 650?
Cabaldon is the primary sponsor of CA SB 650.
Description
Existing law, the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Reform Act of 2009, provides that it is the intent of the Legislature to provide for the sustainable management of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta ecosystem, to provide for a more reliable water supply for the state, to protect and enhance the quality of water supply from the Delta, as defined, and to establish a governance structure that will direct efforts across state agencies to develop a legally enforceable Delta Plan. This bill would make the provisions of the Delta Plan severable. Existing law establishes the Delta Stewardship Council as an independent agency of the state to establish and oversee a committee of agencies responsible for implementing the Delta Plan. Existing law requires council members to possess diverse expertise and reflect a statewide perspective. The bill would state that it is the intent of the Legislature that the council appointees have knowledge about the Delta. Existing law authorizes persons and certain entities, claiming that a proposed covered action is inconsistent with the Delta Plan and that, as a result of that inconsistency, the action will have a significant adverse impact on the achievement of certain goals or implementation of government-sponsored flood control programs to reduce risks to people and property in the Delta, to file an appeal with regard to a certification of consistency submitted to the Delta Stewardship Council. Existing law requires the appeal to be heard by the council within 60 days of the date of the filing of the appeal, as specified, and requires the council to make its decision on the appeal within 60 days of hearing the appeal. This bill would provide certain deadlines for legal actions arising out of specified actions of the council and would make related changes. The bill would add state and local public agencies to those entities authorized to appeal regarding a certification of consistency.
- Introduced
- 2025-02-20
- Latest action
- 2025-10-03 — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 324, Statutes of 2025.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Cabaldonauthor
Committees
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Action timeline
2025-02-20
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
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2025-02-21
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
2025-03-05
Referred to Com. on RLS.
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2025-03-24
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
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2025-04-02
Re-referred to Coms. on N.R. & W. and JUD.
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2025-04-03
Set for hearing April 8.
2025-04-08
Set for hearing April 29.
2025-04-08
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 708.) (April 8).
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2025-04-09
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
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2025-04-30
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0. Page 942.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-05-02
Set for hearing May 12.
2025-05-12
From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar.
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2025-05-13
Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
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2025-05-15
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 1091.) Ordered to the Assembly.
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2025-05-15
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
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2025-05-29
Referred to Coms. on W. P., & W. and JUD.
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2025-06-17
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
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2025-07-02
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-07-16
From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (July 16).
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2025-07-17
Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
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2025-08-18
Ordered to third reading.
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2025-08-18
From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Aguiar-Curry.
2025-08-18
Read third time and amended.
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2025-08-18
Ordered to third reading.
2025-08-28
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 2772.) Ordered to the Senate.
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2025-08-28
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2025-09-03
Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2424.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
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2025-09-09
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
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2025-10-03
Approved by the Governor.
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2025-10-03
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 324, Statutes of 2025.
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Votes
Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Judiciary] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2025-04-08 · pass · 6-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Stern: yes
- Allen: yes
- Laird: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Limón: yes
- Grove: other
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar
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
Consent Calendar 2nd
2025-05-15 · pass · 34-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Becker: yes
- Laird: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Grayson: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Allen: yes
- Limón: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Choi: yes
- Jones: yes
- Niello: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Stern: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Padilla: other
- Alvarado-Gil: other
- Grove: other
- Rubio: other
- Cervantes: other
- Reyes: other
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary]
2025-06-17 · pass · 10-0
Member-level votes (13)
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Bains: yes
- Hart: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Papan: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Alvarez: other
- Macedo: other
- Ávila Farías: other
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2025-07-01 · pass · 12-0
Member-level votes (12)
- Connolly: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Papan: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
Do pass. To Consent Calendar.
2025-07-16 · pass · 13-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Wicks: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Solache: yes
- Ta: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Hart: yes
- Fong: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Pellerin: other
- Arambula: other
SB 650 Cabaldon Senate Third Reading By Flora
2025-08-28 · pass · 75-0
Member-level votes (79)
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Dixon: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Krell: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Chen: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Papan: yes
- Lee: yes
- Soria: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Addis: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Hart: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Solache: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Ward: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Ta: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Bains: yes
- Flora: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Patel: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Davies: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Fong: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Haney: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Alvarez: other
- Berman: other
- Valencia: other
- Elhawary: other
Unfinished Business SB650 Cabaldon Concurrence
2025-09-03 · pass · 40-0
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
- Valladares: yes
- Padilla: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Choi: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Grayson: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Niello: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Laird: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Jones: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: yes
- Grove: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Reyes: yes
- Caballero: yes
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