Bill Text: CA SB1372 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Sustainable Groundwater Management Act: groundwater sustainability plans: groundwater rights.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2022-09-28 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 682, Statutes of 2022. [SB1372 Detail]
Download: California-2021-SB1372-Chaptered.html
Senate Bill
No. 1372
CHAPTER 682
An act to add Section 10738 to the Water Code, relating to groundwater.
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Approved by
Governor
September 28, 2022.
Filed with
Secretary of State
September 28, 2022.
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LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 1372, Stern.
Sustainable Groundwater Management Act: groundwater sustainability plans: groundwater rights.
The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act requires all groundwater basins designated as high- or medium-priority basins by the Department of Water Resources that are designated as basins subject to critical conditions of overdraft to be managed under a groundwater sustainability plan or coordinated groundwater sustainability plans by January 31, 2020, and requires all other groundwater basins designated as high- or medium-priority basins to be managed under a groundwater sustainability plan or coordinated groundwater sustainability plans by January 31, 2022, except as specified.
This bill would provide that the approval of a groundwater sustainability plan by the department shall not be construed to be a determination
by or otherwise an opinion of the department that the allocation of groundwater pumping rights in the plan are consistent with groundwater rights law.
