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CA AB 293

enacted

Groundwater sustainability agency: transparency.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Quick answers

Did CA AB 293 pass?

Yes. CA AB 293 has been enacted into law as of 2025-10-06. Latest recorded action (2025-10-06): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 359, Statutes of 2025.

What is CA AB 293 about?

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. 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.

Who sponsors CA AB 293?

Bennett is the primary sponsor of CA AB 293.

Description

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. 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.

Introduced
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Latest action
2025-10-06 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 359, Statutes of 2025.
Bill type
bill
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Bennettauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-01-22

    Read first time. To print.

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  2. 2025-01-23

    From printer. May be heard in committee February 22.

  3. 2025-02-18

    Referred to Com. on W. P., & W.

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  4. 2025-03-25

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 2.) (March 25).

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  5. 2025-03-26

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  6. 2025-04-01

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 62. Noes 5.)

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  7. 2025-04-02

    In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

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  8. 2025-05-07

    Referred to Com. on N.R. & W.

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  9. 2025-06-10

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 10).

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  10. 2025-06-11

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  11. 2025-09-03

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 3. Page 2426.).

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  12. 2025-09-03

    In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.

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  13. 2025-09-09

    Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.

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  14. 2025-10-06

    Approved by the Governor.

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  15. 2025-10-06

    Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 359, Statutes of 2025.

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Versions

Documents

Votes

  • Do pass.

    2025-03-25 · pass · 11-2

    Member-level votes (13)
    • Papan: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • Boerner: yes
    • Jeff Gonzalez: yes
    • Bains: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Celeste Rodriguez: yes
    • Rogers: yes
    • Alvarez: yes
    • Bennett: yes
    • Macedo: no
    • Tangipa: no

  • AB 293 Bennett Assembly Third Reading

    2025-04-01 · pass · 62-5

    Member-level votes (80)
    • Haney: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Ahrens: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Boerner: yes
    • Muratsuchi: yes
    • Bennett: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Michelle Rodriguez: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Petrie-Norris: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Celeste Rodriguez: yes
    • Hoover: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Schultz: yes
    • Valencia: yes
    • Bains: yes
    • McKinnor: yes
    • Alanis: yes
    • Carrillo: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Rivas: yes
    • Gipson: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • Blanca Rubio: yes
    • Ransom: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Ramos: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Quirk-Silva: yes
    • Schiavo: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • DeMaio: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Irwin: yes
    • Nguyen: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Ortega: yes
    • Wallis: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Addis: yes
    • Lackey: yes
    • Patterson: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Bonta: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Lee: yes
    • Rogers: yes
    • Ward: yes
    • Gabriel: yes
    • Berman: yes
    • Dixon: no
    • Macedo: no
    • Tangipa: no
    • Gallagher: no
    • Ellis: no
    • Jeff Gonzalez: other
    • Calderon: other
    • Alvarez: other
    • Chen: other
    • Pacheco: other
    • Wicks: other
    • Hadwick: other
    • Soria: other
    • Ta: other
    • Castillo: other
    • Davies: other
    • Essayli: other
    • Flora: other

  • Do pass

    2025-06-10 · pass · 5-0

    Member-level votes (7)
    • Limón: yes
    • Stern: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Hurtado: yes
    • Seyarto: other
    • Grove: other

  • 3rd Reading AB293 Bennett By Hurtado

    2025-09-03 · pass · 31-3

    Member-level votes (40)
    • Becker: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Stern: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Blakespear: yes
    • Rubio: yes
    • Hurtado: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Limón: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • McNerney: yes
    • Pérez: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • McGuire: yes
    • Cervantes: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Archuleta: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Ochoa Bogh: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Reyes: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Strickland: no
    • Alvarado-Gil: no
    • Seyarto: no
    • Jones: other
    • Valladares: other
    • Niello: other
    • Grove: other
    • Choi: other
    • Dahle: other

Related bills

No related bills recorded for this bill.

Official source

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB293

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