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 09/02/25 - Amended Assembly
 03/17/25 - Amended Senate
 02/13/25 - Introduced

 SB-369 Salton Sea: restoration projects: skilled and trained workforce. (2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 09/12/2025 09:00 PM

SB369:v96#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Enrolled
 September 12, 2025

 Passed
 IN 
 Senate
 September 10, 2025

 Passed
 IN 
 Assembly
 September 08, 2025

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 September 02, 2025

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 March 17, 2025

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Senate Bill

No. 369

Introduced by Senator Padilla

February 13, 2025

 An act to add Section 2946 to the Fish and Game Code, relating to the Salton Sea. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 369, Padilla.
 Salton Sea: restoration projects: skilled and trained workforce. 

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.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a) Flows into the Salton Sea have declined in recent years, and the result is a shrinking, increasingly saline lake.

(b) As the Salton Sea recedes, previously submerged lakebed is exposed, creating dust that is of concern to local communities.

(c) California state agencies are advancing Salton Sea restoration projects critical to ensuring the health and well-being of the Salton Sea ecosystem, the residents of the Imperial Valley, and the surrounding communities.

(d) The communities surrounding the Salton Sea are some of the most impoverished in the state.

(e) More than 21 percent of the population of the County of Imperial lives below the poverty line, which is nearly double the national average of 11.6 percent.

(f) Less than 10 percent of residents under 65 years of age in the County of Imperial have health insurance.

(g) There is a significant gap in wages between the County of Imperial and the rest of the state, such that wages in the County of Imperial are up to 25 percent lower than the statewide average.

(h) To help mitigate the gap in wages, it is the
 intent of the Legislature for all work that encompasses Salton Sea restoration projects that falls within an occupation that has an apprenticeship in the building and construction trades to be performed by a skilled and trained workforce as defined in Section 2601 of the Public Contract Code.

(i) A skilled and trained workforce brings with it higher paying jobs, medical insurance, and
 training and development for the local workforce.

(j) A skilled and trained workforce requirement will expand apprenticeship training in the County of Imperial.

(k) A skilled and trained workforce requirement will promote safety and quality in the completion of Salton Sea restoration projects.

SEC. 2.

 Section 2946 is added to the Fish and Game Code, to read:

2946.

 (a) For projects in excess of one million dollars ($1,000,000), a state agency undertaking a Salton Sea restoration project shall 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 shall use a skilled and trained workforce to perform all work that falls within an apprenticeship occupation in the building and construction