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CA AB 2132

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California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: groundwater recharge project.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Description

The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. 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 plans, except as specified. Existing law requires a groundwater sustainability plan to include various information relating to subsidence, as applicable. This bill would exempt from the requirements of CEQA a groundwater recharge project if the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency determines the project would address subsidence. Because a lead agency would be required to determine whether a project qualifies for this exemption, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

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Status date
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Latest action
2026-04-06 — (Pending re-refer to Com. on W., P., & W.)
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Sponsors

  • Macedoauthor

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Action timeline

  1. 2026-02-18

    Read first time. To print.

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  2. 2026-02-19

    From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.

  3. 2026-03-09

    Referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and W., P., & W.

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  4. 2026-04-06

    Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Page 4467.)

  5. 2026-04-06

    (Pending re-refer to Com. on W., P., & W.)

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http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB2132

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