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Groundwater sustainability agencies.

It became law on Oct 9, 2015.

CA AB 939 · Assembly Bill · 2015–2016

Stage
Became law
Started in
Assembly
Sponsor
Salas
Latest action
Oct 9, 2015

What it does

Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources to identify the extent of monitoring of groundwater elevations that is being undertaken within each groundwater basin or subbasin and to prioritize basins or subbasins as high, medium, low, or very low priority, and requires the initial priority for each basin to be established no later than January 31, 2015. Existing law, the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, requires all groundwater basins designated as high- or medium-priority basins by the department that are designated as basins subject to critical conditions of overdraft to be managed under a groundwater sustainability plan or coordinated groundwater sustainability plans by…

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Where it stands

This bill passed and is now law.

  1. Introduced (Done)

  2. Committee (Done)

  3. Floor (Done)

  4. Law (Done)

    Oct 9, 2015

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Who is involved

Sponsors

The lawmakers who put their names on it, lead sponsors first.

  • SalasLead sponsor

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Where it goes next

It is law in California. What happens now is up to the agency that carries it out, the courts, and the place itself.

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