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 04/16/26 - Amended Assembly
 03/19/26 - Amended Assembly
 02/17/26 - Introduced

 AB-2032 Fish and wildlife: golden mussels.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 06/11/2026 09:00 PM

AB2032:v95#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 June 11, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 May 18, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 April 16, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 March 19, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 2032

Introduced by Assembly Member Ransom

February 17, 2026

 An act to add Sections 2150.6 and 2301.5 to the Fish and Game Code, to add Section 12824.1 to the Food and Agricultural Code, and to add Section 13371 to the Water Code, relating to fish and wildlife, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2032, as amended, Ransom.
 Fish and wildlife: golden mussels.

(1) Existing law, until January 1, 2030, generally prohibits a person from possessing, importing, shipping, or transporting in the state, or from placing, planting, or causing to be placed or planted in any water within the state, invasive mussels, as defined. Existing law requires a public or private agency that operates a water supply system to cooperate with the Department of Fish and Wildlife to implement measures to avoid infestation by invasive mussels and to control or eradicate any infestation that may occur in a water supply system, and, if invasive mussels are detected, to prepare and implement a plan, as specified, to control or eradicate invasive mussels within the system (control plan).

Existing law prohibits the importation, transportation, possession, or live release of specified wild animals, except under
 a revocable, nontransferable permit, known as a restricted species permit, issued by the department, in cooperation with the Department of Food and Agriculture, and only if certain requirements are met.

Existing law authorizes the department to issue permits, commonly known as scientific collecting permits, to take or possess any form of plant or animal life for scientific, educational, or propagation purposes.

This bill would exempt from the requirement to obtain a restricted species permit for golden mussels a public or private agency that operates a water supply system and has submitted a control plan to the department for maintenance and operational activities to control the spread of golden mussels in the water supply system, as specified. The bill would provide that this exemption remains in effect for a particular public or private
 agency until the department determines the agency’s control plan does not meet the statutory requirements for control plans or approves the control plan.

This bill would require the department’s Invasive Species Program to develop, by April 1, 2027, voluntary guidance for public and private agencies that operate water supply systems to develop effective control plans. The bill would also require the department’s Invasive Species Program to develop and publish, by April 1, 2027, guidance for scientific research conducted by or for public and private agencies that operate water supply systems to control the spread of golden mussels, as specified. The bill would authorize a public or private agency that operates a water supply system and does not have an approved control plan to submit to the department a streamlined project proposal for golden mussel scientific research, as specified, and would require those project proposals to comply with the department’s scientific
 research guidance. The bill would exempt scientific research described in those project proposals from scientific collecting permits and restricted species permits for golden mussels. The bill would provide that this exemption terminates for a particular public or private agency upon the agency’s submission of a control plan to the department.

This bill would require the department to update the spatial distribution maps of golden mussel-infested water bodies posted on its internet website no less than quarterly based on monitoring and reported detections, as prescribed.

(2) Existing law requires every manufacturer of, importer of, or dealer in any pesticide, except as specified, to obtain a certificate of regist