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CA AB 709

enacted

Sustainable Groundwater Management Act: groundwater sustainability plans.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Quick answers

Did CA AB 709 pass?

Yes. CA AB 709 has been enacted into law as of 2025-10-07. Latest recorded action (2025-10-07): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 439, Statutes of 2025.

What is CA AB 709 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. The act requires a groundwater sustainability agency, upon adoption of a groundwater sustainability plan, to submit the groundwater sustainability plan to the department for review. If groundwater sustainability agencies develop multiple groundwater sustainability plans for a basin, the act requires, when the entire basin is covered by groundwater sustainability plans, the groundwater sustainability agencies to jointly submit to the department the groundwater sustainability plans, an explanation of how the plans satisfy specified provisions of the act, and a copy of the coordination agreement between the groundwater sustainability agencies. The act requires the department to evaluate a groundwater sustainability plan within 2 years of its submission and issue an assessment of the plan. This bill would provide that nothing in those provisions relating to making submissions to the department shall be construed to prohibit groundwater sustainability agencies that have developed multiple groundwater sustainability plans for a basin from amending the coordination agreement following department issuance of an assessment of the plans.

Who sponsors CA AB 709?

Jeff Gonzalez is the primary sponsor of CA AB 709.

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 requires a groundwater sustainability agency, upon adoption of a groundwater sustainability plan, to submit the groundwater sustainability plan to the department for review. If groundwater sustainability agencies develop multiple groundwater sustainability plans for a basin, the act requires, when the entire basin is covered by groundwater sustainability plans, the groundwater sustainability agencies to jointly submit to the department the groundwater sustainability plans, an explanation of how the plans satisfy specified provisions of the act, and a copy of the coordination agreement between the groundwater sustainability agencies. The act requires the department to evaluate a groundwater sustainability plan within 2 years of its submission and issue an assessment of the plan. This bill would provide that nothing in those provisions relating to making submissions to the department shall be construed to prohibit groundwater sustainability agencies that have developed multiple groundwater sustainability plans for a basin from amending the coordination agreement following department issuance of an assessment of the plans.

Introduced
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Latest action
2025-10-07 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 439, Statutes of 2025.
Bill type
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Jeff Gonzalezauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-02-14

    Read first time. To print.

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  2. 2025-02-15

    From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.

  3. 2025-03-03

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

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  4. 2025-04-30

    From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 29).

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  5. 2025-05-01

    Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.

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  6. 2025-05-08

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 1485.)

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  7. 2025-05-08

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

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  8. 2025-05-21

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

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  9. 2025-06-10

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 10).

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  10. 2025-06-11

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  11. 2025-09-11

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2895.).

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  12. 2025-09-12

    In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.

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  13. 2025-09-23

    Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

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  14. 2025-10-07

    Approved by the Governor.

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  15. 2025-10-07

    Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 439, Statutes of 2025.

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Versions

Documents

Votes

  • Do pass. To Consent Calendar.

    2025-04-29 · pass · 13-0

    Member-level votes (13)
    • Rogers: yes
    • Celeste Rodriguez: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Tangipa: yes
    • Macedo: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • Boerner: yes
    • Jeff Gonzalez: yes
    • Bains: yes
    • Bennett: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Alvarez: yes
    • Papan: yes

  • AB 709 Jeff Gonzalez Consent Calendar Second Day

    2025-05-08 · pass · 69-0

    Member-level votes (79)
    • Gabriel: yes
    • McKinnor: yes
    • Hoover: yes
    • Schiavo: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Bains: yes
    • Ramos: yes
    • Nguyen: yes
    • Gipson: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Berman: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • Chen: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Macedo: yes
    • Ortega: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Patterson: yes
    • Ward: yes
    • Lackey: yes
    • Davies: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Michelle Rodriguez: yes
    • DeMaio: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Ellis: yes
    • Hadwick: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Ahrens: yes
    • Bennett: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Valencia: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Lee: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Castillo: yes
    • Alanis: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Bonta: yes
    • Ransom: yes
    • Rivas: yes
    • Soria: yes
    • Tangipa: yes
    • Rogers: yes
    • Alvarez: yes
    • Schultz: yes
    • Blanca Rubio: yes
    • Addis: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Petrie-Norris: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Muratsuchi: yes
    • Quirk-Silva: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Jeff Gonzalez: other
    • Carrillo: other
    • Arambula: other
    • Irwin: other
    • Gallagher: other
    • Celeste Rodriguez: other
    • Wallis: other
    • Flora: other
    • Boerner: other
    • Sanchez: other

  • Do pass

    2025-06-10 · pass · 7-0

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

  • 3rd Reading AB709 Jeff Gonzalez By Seyarto

    2025-09-11 · pass · 40-0

    Member-level votes (40)
    • Valladares: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • McGuire: yes
    • Ochoa Bogh: yes
    • Pérez: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Jones: yes
    • Reyes: yes
    • McNerney: yes
    • Dahle: yes
    • Cervantes: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Archuleta: yes
    • Limón: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Niello: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Hurtado: yes
    • Blakespear: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • Choi: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Stern: yes
    • Alvarado-Gil: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Rubio: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Grove: yes
    • Strickland: yes
    • Becker: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Wahab: yes

Related bills

No related bills recorded for this bill.

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http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB709

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