Bill Text: CA AB2799 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Sustainable groundwater management: small farms: fees.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-29 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading. [AB2799 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB2799-Amended.html
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2799
| Introduced by Assembly Member Vince Fong |
February 15, 2024 |
An act to amend Section 10720.9 of add Section 10730.3 to the Water Code, relating to water.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2799, as amended, Vince Fong.
Sustainable groundwater management: state agencies. small farms: fees.
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 plans, except as specified. Existing law requires all relevant state agencies, as described, to consider the policies of the act, and any groundwater sustainability plans adopted pursuant to the act, when revising or adopting policies, regulations, or criteria, or when issuing orders or determinations, where pertinent. 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 and imposes specified duties upon that agency or combination of agencies, as provided. Existing law authorizes a groundwater sustainability agency that adopts a groundwater sustainability plan to impose fees on the extraction of groundwater from the basin to fund costs of groundwater management, as specified.
This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the latter requirement.
This bill would require a groundwater sustainability agency to consider the efforts of small farms, as defined, that recharge groundwater into the basin upon which their property is located when imposing or increasing fees.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 10730.3 is added to the Water Code, to read:10730.3.
(a) For purposes of this section, “small farm” means a farm with a gross cash farm income of two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) or less.(b) A groundwater sustainability agency shall consider the efforts of small farms that recharge groundwater into the basin upon which their property is located when imposing or increasing fees pursuant to Section 10730 or 10730.2.
All relevant state agencies, including, but not limited to, the board, the regional water quality control boards, the department, and the Department of Fish and Wildlife, shall consider the policies of this part, and any groundwater sustainability plans adopted pursuant to this part, when revising or adopting policies, regulations, or criteria, or when issuing orders or determinations, when pertinent.
