Sustainable Groundwater Management Act: groundwater adjudication.
Passed first chamber: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- Passed first chamber
- Started in
- Assembly
- Sponsors
- 3
- Latest action
- Sep 9, 2025
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 the department to periodically review the groundwater sustainability plans developed by groundwater sustainability agencies pursuant to the act to evaluate whether a plan conforms with specified laws and is likely to achieve the sustainability goal for the basin covered by the plan. Existing law requires a groundwater sustainability agency to evaluate its groundwater…
Where it stands
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Committee (Done)
Floor (Current step)
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Who is involved
Sponsors
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Where it goes next
While a bill can still move, the questions are about people and money in California.