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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Senate Bill

SB 463: Drought planning: resiliency measures.

Did not advance Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted
  6. Did not advance

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 463 is a senate bill introduced in the California Senate on February 19, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Drought planning: resiliency measures. Primary sponsor: Marie Alvarado-Gil (R). Most recent recorded action (February 2, 2026): Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Legislative Counsel’s Digest (official, as of the latest version). Written by nonpartisan legislative staff; reproduced verbatim.

Existing law requires small water suppliers, defined for purposes of these provisions to mean a community water system serving 15 to 2,999 service connections, inclusive, and that provides less than 3,000 acre-feet of water annually, and nontransient noncommunity water systems that are schools to implement specified drought resiliency measures, including, among other things, no later than January 1, 2032, metering each service connection and monitoring for water loss due to leakages.

This bill would exempt a small water supplier or nontransient noncommunity water system from these metering and monitoring requirements if it (1) is in the process of applying for state funding, has been determined to be ineligible for state funding, or is not able to obtain state funding because there is no funding available in applicable state programs, and (2) has made a finding that increasing its rates to raise revenue locally is not a feasible option.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Marie Alvarado-GilPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate4

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
  2. May 23 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
  3. Set for hearing May 23.
  4. May 5 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
  5. Set for hearing May 5.
  6. April 28 hearing postponed by committee.
  7. Set for hearing April 28.
  8. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
  9. Withdrawn from committee.
  10. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
  11. From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 707.) (April 8).
  12. Set for hearing April 8.

Sources

  1. California Legislative Information — pubinfo database export
  2. Official bill page