Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy.

The conservancy's jurisdiction is expanded from the Valley and Delta to include Lake County. The agency is renamed from 'Valley and Delta Conservancy' to 'Valley, Lake, and Delta Conservancy.' A new definition of 'Lake' is added, meaning all lands within Lake County.

A legislative intent statement is added clarifying that the expansion to include Lake should not distract from or diminish the conservancy's existing work in the Delta, but rather provide additional resources to achieve its Delta mission.

The single Valley and Delta Conservancy Fund is replaced with two separate funds: the Delta Conservancy Fund (for Delta activities) and the Valley and Lake Conservancy Fund (for Valley and Lake activities). New cross-use prohibitions prevent Delta fund money from being spent in the Valley or Lake, and vice versa.

Ecosystem restoration funding language is expanded to explicitly include 'projects to reduce and reverse land subsidence and associated carbon emissions.' The Central Valley Flood Protection Board's Central Valley Flood Protection Plan is added to the list of 'other relevant plans' that guide conservancy activity.

The governing board is expanded from 11 to 13 voting members. Two new seats are added: one appointed by the Lake County Board of Supervisors (must be a county resident) and one tribal representative appointed by the Governor with Senate confirmation. The tribal representative serves a four-year term with a two-term limit.

A new liaison adviser is added: a designee of the California Central Valley Flood Control Association who must be a member of the governing body of a reclamation district in the primary zone of the Delta.

The state-mandated local program designation changes from 'no' to 'yes,' meaning the Lake County Board of Supervisors appointment requirement is now considered a state mandate. This triggers the California Constitution's reimbursement requirement for costs imposed on local agencies.

New legislative findings are added about Clear Lake (oldest species-rich warm water natural lake in North America, largest natural freshwater lake wholly within California), additional tribal nations (Pomo, Yuki, Wappo), Delta economic statistics ($35 billion contribution, 500,000 residents, 200,000 jobs, $400 billion economy, water for 25 million Californians), and a new mandate to implement recommendations of the Blue Ribbon Committee for the Rehabilitation of Clear Lake.

The bill text was reformatted from a traditional legislative document with line numbers, page headers (e.g., 'AB 2216 - 2 - '), and amendment strikethrough markup into a clean web-based layout without those artifacts.

Web navigation elements were added including skip-to-content links, home, accessibility, FAQ, feedback, sitemap, login, quick search fields, bill tracking links, share options, and a publication date stamp (06/25/2026 09:00 PM).

Traditional legislative formatting elements were removed including line numbers, page number headers, the 'O' signature mark at the end, and amendment strikethrough markup showing prior version text.

Section 32364(d) now caps advance payments at up to 25 percent of the grant award, whereas the prior version allowed advance payments without a stated percentage limit.

The findings section (subsections j through n) was cleaned up to use numeric forms only (e.g., 25,000,000 instead of '25 million 25,000,000'), resolving leftover amendment markup from the prior version.

Section 11's out-of-jurisdiction findings were restructured to remove redundant lettered sub-paragraphs (a) through (e) that had been left over from prior amendment markup, leaving only the clean numbered list (1) through (5).

Valley Program section 32361 items (l) and (m) - assisting local entities with habitat conservation plans and promoting environmental education - were integrated into the main list rather than appearing as separate trailing additions.

The conservancy's jurisdiction is expanded from 'the Delta' to 'the Valley, Delta, and Suisun Marsh' in Section 32360(a), broadening where the agency can operate and allocate funds.

Headquarters and regular board meetings are no longer limited to 'the Delta or the City of Rio Vista' but may be held anywhere within the areas under the conservancy's jurisdiction, broadening geographic flexibility for operations.

New legislative findings are added acknowledging that the Valley and Delta are the ancestral home of the Maidu, Miwok, and Yokut tribes and hold cultural significance to tribes throughout the state (Section 32301(i)).

A new subsection (b) is added to Section 32360.5 defining 'other relevant plans' to include the Delta Protection Commission's Land Use and Resource Management Plan, Economic Sustainability Plan, Delta Stewardship Council's climate adaptation plan and levees investment strategy, the Natural and Working Lands Climate Smart Strategy, California's Nature-Based Solutions Climate Targets, and community action plans for legacy communities.

The name of the agency is shortened from 'Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley and Delta Conservancy' to 'Valley and Delta Conservancy' in all references, including the division heading, fund name, and act title.

Tribal organizations are added as eligible recipients of grants and loans from the conservancy in Section 32364.5, alongside state agencies, local public agencies, and nonprofit organizations.

The number of nonvoting liaison advisers on the board increases from ten to twelve in Section 32330(c), adding seats for the Yolo Basin Foundation and Delta Protection Commission designees that were previously listed but not counted correctly.

Gender-neutral language is applied throughout, replacing 'his or her' with 'their' in references to agency designees.