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California 20252026

AB 2728

Groundwater: de minimis extractors: fees: exemption.

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Source: Open States / PluralUpdated 2026-09-12 13:12:55 UTC.

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Measure details

Jurisdiction
California
Session
20252026
Chamber
lower
Classification
bill
Subjects
Groundwater, deminimisextractors, exemption, fees
Introduced / first action
2026-02-20 00:00:00

Alternate titles

  • Water delivery infrastructure.
  • Open and Transparent Water Data Act.

Source-supplied abstracts

Existing law authorizes a groundwater sustainability agency to impose fees, including, but not limited to, permit fees and fees on groundwater extraction or other regulated activity, to fund the costs of a groundwater sustainability program, and investigations, inspections, compliance assistance, enforcement, and program administration, as provided. Existing law prohibits a groundwater sustainability agency from imposing those fees on a de minimis extractor, as defined, unless the agency has regulated the user, as provided. This bill would authorize a local government, including, but not limited to, a groundwater sustainability agency, that imposes a fee, levy, charge, or exaction for groundwater monitoring or management, upon making specified findings, to exempt de minimis extractors, including the above-described regulated users, from the payment of the fee, levy, charge, or exaction, as provided.

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Actions

  1. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

    executive-receipt

  2. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0.).

    amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable

  3. From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (August 27).

    committee-passage

  4. Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended.

  5. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2.

    referral-committee

  6. In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.

  7. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.).

    passage, reading-1, reading-3

  8. Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.

    reading-1, reading-2

  9. From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 1).

    committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable

  10. In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

  11. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on N.R. & W. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 23). Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W.

    committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee

  12. Re-referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and N.R. & W.

    referral-committee

  13. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.

    referral-committee

  14. Withdrawn from committee.

    withdrawal

  15. In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

  16. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W.

    amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee

  17. Referred to Com. on N.R. & W.

    referral-committee

  18. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

    reading-1, referral-committee

  19. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0.)

    passage, reading-1, reading-3

  20. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

    reading-1, reading-2, reading-3

  21. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 14).

    committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable

  22. In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.

    referral-committee

  23. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

    committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee

  24. Re-referred to Com. on W., P., & W.

    referral-committee

  25. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on W., P., & W. Read second time and amended.

    amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee

  26. Referred to Com. on W., P., & W.

    referral-committee

  27. From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.

  28. Read first time. To print.

    reading-1

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