CaliforniaSustainable Groundwater Management Act: groundwater sustainability plans.
What it does
Existing law, the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, requires all groundwater basins designated as high- or medium-priority basins by the Department of Water Resources to be managed under a groundwater sustainability plan or coordinated groundwater sustainability plans, except as specified.
More detail
The act requires a groundwater sustainability agency, upon adoption of a groundwater sustainability plan, to submit the groundwater sustainability plan to the department for review. If groundwater sustainability agencies develop multiple groundwater sustainability plans for a basin, the act requires, when the entire basin is covered by groundwater sustainability plans, the groundwater sustainability agencies to jointly submit to the department the groundwater sustainability plans, an explanation of how the plans satisfy specified provisions of the act, and a copy of the coordination agreement between the groundwater sustainability agencies. The act requires the department to evaluate a groundwater sustainability plan within 2 years of its submission and issue an assessment of the plan.
This bill would provide that nothing in those provisions relating to making submissions to the department shall be construed to prohibit groundwater sustainability agencies that have developed multiple groundwater sustainability plans for a basin from amending the coordination agreement following department issuance of an assessment of the plans.
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
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History
- 2025
- Oct 7Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 439, Statutes of 2025.Latest
- Oct 7Approved by the Governor Gavin Newsom.Became Law
- Sep 23Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.To Governor
- Sep 12In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.Minor
- Sep 11Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2895.).Passed Senate
- Vote recorded 3rd Reading AB709 Jeff Gonzalez By Seyarto. Result: pass.Upper
- Jun 11Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Jun 10From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 10).Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass. Result: pass.Upper
- May 21Referred to Com. on N.R. & W.Minor
- May 8In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.Minor
- Vote recorded AB 709 Jeff Gonzalez Consent Calendar Second Day. Result: pass.Lower
- May 8Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 1485.)Passed Assembly
- May 1Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.Minor
- Apr 30From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 29).Minor
- Apr 29
- Vote recorded Do pass. To Consent Calendar. Result: pass.Lower
- Mar 3Referred to Com. on W. P., & W.Minor
- Feb 15From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
- Feb 14Read first time. To print.Introduced