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Votes at a glance: Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee actions and next steps
Summary
The Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee heard a full agenda and advanced multiple bills (most as amended) to Appropriations or adopted on the consent calendar. Listed are the bills discussed in the hearing, the committee action, and available vote tallies recorded in the transcript.
The Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee heard a packed agenda and recorded committee actions on multiple measures. Below are the items discussed in the hearing, the committee’s formal action where taken, and any vote counts recorded on the transcript.
Votes at a glance
- AB 527 (Assemblymember Pappan) — Subject: CEQA exemption for exploratory geothermal wells. Committee action: Do pass as amended to Appropriations. Recorded committee tally in final add‑on: yes 7, no 0.
- AJR 9 (Assemblymember Wallace) — Subject: Urging Congress and the President to restore full funding for the National Park Service. Committee action: Adopted by roll call (motion to adopt and roll call taken); final tally left on call in committee record (on‑call status recorded in transcript).
- AB 915 (Assemblymember Petrie‑Norris) — Subject: Clarifies permitting jurisdiction for long‑duration compressed air energy storage (water storage ponds) to the California Energy Commission. Committee action: Do pass as amended to Appropriations; transcript records a unanimous committee voice/roll result (recorded as 7‑0 in the add‑on sequence).
- AB 568 (Assemblymember Macedo) — Subject: Creates a new Groundwater Sustainability Agency for parts of Tulare County to comply with SGMA. Committee action: Do pass as amended to Appropriations; transcript shows unanimous/near‑unanimous tally on call (reported as 7‑0 on the roll calls in committee sequence).
- AB 1089 (Assemblymember Carrillo) — Subject: Western Joshua tree conservation — allows delegated local permitting for additional project types and homeowner defensible‑space relief. Committee action: Do pass as amended to Appropriations (transcript shows vote recorded in committee as 6‑0 on the roll call at one point and left on call in committee minutes).
- AB 679 (Assemblymember Pellerin) — Subject: Exempt limited land transfers associated with CZU Lightning Complex recovery (Big Basin, Ano Nuevo, Butano) from the Public Works Board step, with public notification and participation before close of escrow. Committee action: Do pass as amended to Appropriations; committee and sponsors recorded support and the bill was placed on call in committee record for absent members.
- AB 1075 (Assemblymember Bridal/CALPF sponsor) — Subject: Requires private firefighting resources to check in with incident command before accessing public water supplies at wildland incidents. Committee action: Do pass to Appropriations; transcript roll calls recorded as 6‑0 or left on call in the committee’s record for absent members.
- AB 1456 (Assemblymember Brian) — Subject: Expand the California Vegetation Treatment Program (CalVTP) to additional landscapes and integrate tribal ecological knowledge; accelerate programmatic CEQA coverage for vegetation management. Committee action: Do pass as amended to Appropriations; roll call recorded as unanimous where noted (transcript final add‑on recorded as 7‑0 in committee sequence).
- AB 1417 (Assemblymember Stephanie) — Subject: Offshore wind — requires reporting of developer funding for local/tribal capacity building and allows voluntary offshore wind protection program funds to support capacity building. Committee action: Do pass to Appropriations; one roll call in transcript recorded as 4‑1 at a point and the bill was left on call for absent members; committee staff report no registered opposition on the measure after stakeholder negotiations.
- Consent calendar items (moved together): AB 372 (Bennett), AB 580 (Wallace), AB 638 (Celeste Rodriguez), AB 975 (Gallagher), AB 982 (Carrillo), AB 1457 (Brian), AB 1139 (Rogers), AB 1169 (Gonzales), AB 1227 (Ellis) — Committee action: adopted on consent and advanced as indicated in the transcript (consent roll calls were recorded and left on call for absent members).
Context and next steps
Most measures were advanced “as amended” and referred to the Appropriations Committee for fiscal review; a subset were adopted on the committee’s consent calendar. Several bills that generated substantive testimony (AB 527, AB 1075, AB 1456, AB 1417) will continue through the Legislature with follow‑up from agencies and stakeholders. The transcript records continuing negotiations between authors and environmental, labor and industry stakeholders on technical or regulatory details for multiple bills. Committee roll calls were sometimes left “on call” in the committee record for absent members; the committee stated members present had voted on the items heard.
Reported vote tallies in the transcript are given where explicitly stated. For some items the committee left the roll call “on call” for absent members; consult the official committee minutes and the legislative record for the final, certified vote tallies and amendments.
