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 02/20/25 - Introduced

 AB-1044 Tule East Groundwater Sustainability Agency Act.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 05/24/2025 04:00 AM

AB1044:v98#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 May 23, 2025

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 1044

Introduced by Assembly Member Macedo

February 20, 2025

An act to amend Section 10723 of the Water Code, and to create the Tulare Basin Tule East Groundwater Sustainability Agency, and prescribing its boundaries, organization, operation, management, financing, and other powers and duties, relating to water districts.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1044, as amended, Macedo.
 Tulare Basin Tule East Groundwater Sustainability Agency Act.

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 authorizes any local agency or combination of local agencies overlying a groundwater basin to decide to become a groundwater sustainability agency for that basin. The act deems certain agencies created by statute to manage groundwater the exclusive local agencies within their respective statutory boundaries with powers to comply with the act and authorizes these agencies to opt out of being the exclusive groundwater management agency.

This bill would create the Tulare Basin
 Tule East Groundwater Sustainability Agency and would establish the agency’s initial boundaries. The bill would authorize the boundaries of the agency to be adjusted, as specified. The bill would require the agency to elect to be a groundwater sustainability agency under the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act for that portion of the Tule Subbasin that lies within the boundaries of the agency and would require the agency to develop and implement a groundwater sustainability plan to achieve sustainable groundwater management within the territory of the agency. The bill would generally specify the powers and purposes of the agency. The bill would prescribe the composition of the 5-member board of directors of the agency and would require members and alternates to be chosen, as specified. By imposing duties on the agency and the County of Tulare, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would deem the Tulare Basin
 Tule East Groundwater Sustainability Agency the exclusive local agency with powers to comply with the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act.

This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Tule Subbasin.

The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.

This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

Digest Key

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

Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.This act shall be known and may be cited as the Tulare Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency Act. Tulare Basin SECTION 1.

 This act shall be known and may be cited as the Tule East Groundwater Sustainability Agency Act.

Tule East Groundwater Sustainability Agency Act 

 Article
 1. Findings and Declarations

101.

 The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the preservation of the groundwater resources within the territory of the agency is in the public interest and that the creation of the agency pursuant to this act is for the common benefit.

102.

 The Legislature further finds and declares that the groundwater management activities of the agency benefit all operators of groundwater extraction facilities within the territory of the agency.

103.

 The Legislature further finds and declares that circumstances in the territory of the agency to be formed hereby, which may not exist in other locations, justify the formation of the agency and the grant of powers contained in this act.

 Article
 2. Creation and Purposes

201.

 (a) A g