Groundwater sustainability agency: transparency.
Summary
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.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2025
Committee Review
Sep 2025
Assembly Passage
Apr 2025
Senate Passage
Sep 2025
Signed into Law
Oct 2025
Introduced Jan 22, 2025
Signed Oct 6, 2025
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What changed between versions
01/22/25 - Introduced
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09/05/25 - Enrolled
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3 edits
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Sep 5, 2025
MINOR
AB 293 passed through the California legislature without any substantive amendments. The only differences between the introduced and enrolled versions are formatting changes reflecting the bill's progression through the legislative process, including the addition of passage dates (Assembly April 1, 2025; Senate September 3, 2025), a governor receipt line, an approval line, and removal of the standard vote/appropriation/fiscal committee notation. The statutory text requiring groundwater sustainability agencies to publish board membership and links to financial disclosure statements by January 1, 2026 is unchanged.
TECHNICAL
Header updated from introduced format to enrolled format, adding Assembly passage date (April 1, 2025), Senate passage date (September 3, 2025), governor receipt line, and approval line.
Removed the standard 'Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.' line, which is typical when a bill transitions to enrolled status.
Minor reformatting of the legislative counsel's digest text (line breaks adjusted) with no change in substance.
Floor votes · Senate Sep 3, 2025 · Assembly Apr 1, 2025
How they voted
31–3
Passed · 6 other
Total votes 40
Sep 3, 2025
D
Democratic30
100% Yea
R
Republican10
30% Nay
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
15
Key actions
7
Committee
6
Oct 6, 2025
Signed into law
Approved by the Governor.
legislature
Sep 3, 2025
Lower · Passed
In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.
lower
Sep 3, 2025
Upper · Passed
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 3. Page 2426.).
upper
Jun 10, 2025
Upper · Passed
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 10).
upper
May 7, 2025
Committee
Referred to Com. on N.R. & W.
upper
Apr 1, 2025
Lower · Passed
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 62. Noes 5.)
lower
Mar 25, 2025
Lower · Passed
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 2.) (March 25).
lower
Feb 18, 2025
Committee
Referred to Com. on W. P., & W.
lower
Jan 23, 2025
Lower · Passed
From printer. May be heard in committee February 22.
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Steve Bennett
DDemocratic
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