Transboundary flow pollution: United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement.
Summary
This measure would request the United States, at the 2026 joint review of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) , to secure and publicly adopt measurable and sustained commitments from the parties to eliminate chronic transboundary sewage discharges into the Tijuana River watershed and the flow of untreated sewage, industrial effluent, and toxic pollutants through the New River from Mexicali into the County of Imperial. The measure would further request that the United States commit to automatic nonrenewal of the USMCA should there be a failure of establishing commitments, benchmarks, and timelines relating to specific numeric discharge-reduction benchmarks for both the Tijuana River watershed and the New River, investment into and enforceable timelines for completion of wastewater infrastructure projects, and annual public reporting on compliance.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2026
Committee Review
Jun 2026
Senate Passage
May 2026
Assembly Passage
Jun 2026
Signed into Law
Jul 2026
Introduced Mar 24, 2026
Signed Jul 2, 2026
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Floor votes · Senate May 19, 2026 · Assembly Jun 22, 2026
How they voted
38–0
Passed · 2 other
Total votes 40
May 19, 2026
D
Democratic30
100% Yea
R
Republican10
80% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
14
Key actions
7
Committee
3
Amendments
4
Jun 22, 2026
Assembly · Passed
Assembly Vote: pass (70-0-8)
assembly
Jun 22, 2026
Upper · Passed
In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
upper
Jun 22, 2026
Lower · Passed
Read. Adopted. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 5795.) Ordered to the Senate.
lower
Jun 17, 2026
Lower · Passed
From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 16).
lower
May 26, 2026
Committee
Referred to Com. on E.S & T.M.
lower
May 19, 2026
Senate · Passed
Senate Vote: pass (38-0-2)
senate
May 19, 2026
Upper · Passed
Read. Adopted. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4353.) Ordered to the Assembly.
upper
Apr 22, 2026
Upper · Passed
From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to third reading. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 4010.) (April 22).
upper
Apr 8, 2026
Committee
Re-referred to Com. on E.Q.
upper
Mar 24, 2026
Introduced
Introduced. Referred to Com. on RLS.
upper
1 primary · 2 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Steve Padilla
DDemocratic
Co
Chris Ward
DDemocratic
Co
Tasha Boerner
DDemocratic
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