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 08/18/25 - Amended Assembly
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 03/24/25 - Amended Senate
 02/20/25 - Introduced

 SB-650 The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Reform Act of 2009.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 10/06/2025 02:00 PM

SB650:v94#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Senate Bill

 No. 650

 CHAPTER 324

An act to amend Sections 85202 and 85225.10 of, to add Section 85310 to, and to add Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 85360) to Part 4 of Division 35 of, the Water Code, relating to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Reform Act of 2009.

 [
 Approved by

 Governor
 October 03, 2025.

 Filed with

 Secretary of State
 October 03, 2025.
 ]

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 650, Cabaldon.
 The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Reform Act of 2009.

Existing law, the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Reform Act of 2009, provides that it is the intent of the Legislature to provide for the sustainable management of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta ecosystem, to provide for a more reliable water supply for the state, to protect and enhance the quality of water supply from the Delta, as defined, and to establish a governance structure that will direct efforts across state agencies to develop a legally enforceable Delta Plan.

This bill would make the provisions of the Delta Plan severable.

Existing law establishes the Delta Stewardship Council as an independent agency of the state to establish and oversee a committee of agencies responsible for implementing the Delta Plan.
 Existing law requires council members to possess diverse expertise and reflect a statewide perspective.

The bill would state that it is the intent of the Legislature that the council appointees have knowledge about the Delta.

Existing law authorizes persons and certain entities, claiming that a proposed covered action is inconsistent with the Delta Plan and that, as a result of that inconsistency, the action will have a significant adverse impact on the achievement of certain goals or implementation of government-sponsored flood control programs to reduce risks to people and property in the Delta, to file an appeal with regard to a certification of consistency submitted to the Delta Stewardship Council. Existing law requires the appeal to be heard by the council within 60 days of the date of
 the filing of the appeal, as specified, and requires the council to make its decision on the appeal within 60 days of hearing the appeal.

This bill would provide certain deadlines for legal actions arising out of specified actions of the council and would make related changes. The bill would add state and local public agencies to those entities authorized to appeal regarding a certification of consistency.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 85202 of the Water Code is amended to read:

85202.

 Council members shall possess diverse expertise and reflect a statewide perspective. It is the intent of the Legislature that the council appointees have knowledge about the Delta.

SEC. 2.

 Section 85225.10 of the Water Code is amended to read:

85225.10.

 (a) Any person who claims that a proposed covered action is inconsistent with the Delta Plan and, as a result of that inconsistency, the action will have a significant adverse impact on the achievement of one or both of the coequal goals or implementation of government-sponsored flood control programs to reduce risks to people and property in the Delta, may file an appeal with regard to a certification of consistency submitted to the council.

(b) The appeal shall clearly and specifically set forth the basis for the claim, including specific factual allegations, that the covered action is inconsistent with the Delta Plan. The council may request from the appellant additional information
 necessary to clarify, amplify, correct, or otherwise supplement the information submitted with the appeal, within a reasonable period.

(c) The council, or by delegation the executive officer, may dismiss the appeal for failure of the appellant to provide information requested by the council within the period provided, if the information requested is in the possession or und