CaliforniaGroundwater sustainability agency: transparency.
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. Existing law requires a groundwater sustainability plan to be developed and implemented for each medium- or high-priority basin by a groundwater sustainability agency. Existing law authorizes any local agency or combination of local agencies overlying a groundwater basin to decide to become a groundwater sustainability agency for that basin, as provided.
More detail
Existing law requires members of the board of directors and the executive, as defined, of a groundwater sustainability agency to file statements of economic interests with the Fair Political Practices Commission using the commission's online system for filing statements of economic interests.
This bill would require each groundwater sustainability agency to publish the membership of its board of directors on its internet website, or on the local agency's internet website, as provided. The bill would also require each groundwater sustainability agency to publish a link on its internet website or its local agency's internet website to the location on the Fair Political Practices Commission's internet website where the statements of economic interests, filed by the members of the board and executives of the agency, can be viewed.
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Where it stands
- Introduced
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
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History
- 2025
- Oct 6Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 359, Statutes of 2025.Latest
- Oct 6Approved by the Governor Gavin Newsom.Became Law
- Sep 9Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.To Governor
- Sep 3In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.Minor
- Vote recorded 3rd Reading AB293 Bennett By Hurtado. Result: pass.Upper
- Sep 3Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 3. Page 2426.).Passed Senate
- Jun 11Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Jun 10From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 10).Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass. Result: pass.Upper
- May 7Referred to Com. on N.R. & W.Minor
- Apr 2In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.Minor
- Apr 1Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 62. Noes 5. Page 958.)Passed Assembly
- Vote recorded AB 293 Bennett Assembly Third Reading. Result: pass.Lower
- Mar 26Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Mar 25From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 2.) (March 25).Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass. Result: pass.Lower
- Feb 18Referred to Com. on W. P., & W.Minor
- Jan 23From printer. May be heard in committee February 22.
- Jan 22Read first time. To print.Introduced