CA AB 568
withdrawnTule East Groundwater Sustainability Agency Act.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower
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. The act authorizes any local agency or combination of local agencies overlying a groundwater basin to decide to become a groundwater sustainability agency for that basin. The act deems certain agencies created by statute to manage groundwater the exclusive local agencies within their respective statutory boundaries with powers to comply with the act and authorizes these agencies to opt out of being the exclusive groundwater management agency. This bill would create the Tule East Groundwater Sustainability Agency and would establish the agency's initial boundaries. The bill would authorize the boundaries of the agency to be adjusted, as specified. The bill would require the agency to elect to be a groundwater sustainability agency under the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act for that portion of the Tule Subbasin that lies within the boundaries of the agency and would require the agency to develop and implement a groundwater sustainability plan to achieve sustainable groundwater management within the territory of the agency. The bill would generally specify the powers and purposes of the agency. The bill would prescribe the composition of the 5-member board of directors of the agency and would require members and alternates to be chosen, as specified. By imposing duties on the agency and the County of Tulare, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would deem the Tule East Groundwater Sustainability Agency the exclusive local agency with powers to comply with the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Tule Subbasin. 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.
- Introduced
- 2025-03-26
- Status date
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- Latest action
- 2026-03-09 — Ordered to inactive file at the request of Assembly Member Macedo.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Macedoauthor
Committees
Not provided by source.
Action timeline
2025-02-12
Read first time. To print.
reading-1
2025-02-13
From printer. May be heard in committee March 15.
2025-02-24
Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
referral-committee
2025-03-26
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (March 25).
amendment-introduction,amendment-passage,committee-passage,referral-committee
2025-03-27
Read second time and amended.
amendment-passage,reading-1,reading-2
2025-03-28
Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
referral-committee
2025-04-09
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
referral-committee
2025-05-23
Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 51. Noes 16. Page 1644.)
2025-05-23
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 23).
amendment-introduction,amendment-passage,committee-passage
2025-05-23
Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
amendment-passage,reading-1,reading-2
2025-05-27
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
reading-1,reading-2,reading-3
2025-06-03
Ordered to inactive file at the request of Assembly Member Lackey.
2025-06-03
Action rescinded whereby the bill was placed on inactive file.
2025-06-04
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 2079.)
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2025-06-05
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
reading-1,referral-committee
2025-06-18
Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
referral-committee
2025-06-24
In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
2025-06-24
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
amendment-introduction,amendment-passage,committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2,referral-committee
2025-06-25
Withdrawn from committee.
withdrawal
2025-06-25
Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
referral-committee
2025-07-02
Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W.
referral-committee
2025-07-18
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 16).
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2025-07-18
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
amendment-passage,reading-1,reading-2,referral-committee
2025-08-19
From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.
committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2
2025-08-20
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
reading-1,reading-2,reading-3
2025-09-04
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2501.).
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2025-09-04
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2025-09-04
Re-referred to Com. on W. P., & W. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2.
referral-committee
2025-09-10
From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (September 10).
committee-passage
2026-03-09
Ordered to inactive file at the request of Assembly Member Macedo.
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Votes
Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-03-25 · pass · 9-0
Member-level votes (9)
- Harabedian: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Haney: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Lackey: yes
Do pass as amended.
2025-05-23 · pass · 11-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Calderon: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Hart: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Solache: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Fong: yes
- Ta: other
- Sanchez: other
- Dixon: other
- Tangipa: other
AB 568 Lackey Assembly Third Reading
2025-06-04 · pass · 72-0
Member-level votes (79)
- Lackey: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Chen: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Krell: yes
- Ward: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Berman: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Haney: yes
- Addis: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Fong: yes
- Davies: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Flora: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Bains: yes
- Soria: yes
- Wallis: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Hart: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Papan: yes
- Patel: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Solache: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Ta: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Bryan: other
- Lee: other
- Kalra: other
- Alvarez: other
- Bonta: other
- Elhawary: other
- Ortega: other
Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-07-16 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Hurtado: yes
- Laird: yes
- Limón: yes
- Grove: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Stern: yes
- Allen: yes
3rd Reading AB568 Macedo By Grove
2025-09-04 · pass · 39-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Stern: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Laird: yes
- Limón: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Choi: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Allen: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Niello: yes
- Grove: yes
- Jones: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Strickland: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Becker: yes
- Reyes: other
With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in.
2025-09-10 · pass · 13-0
Member-level votes (13)
- Bains: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Hart: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Papan: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Alvarez: yes
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