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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Assembly Bill

AB 2728: Groundwater: de minimis extractors: fees: exemption.

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

AB 2728 is a assembly bill introduced in the California Assembly on February 20, 2026. According to its official title, it concerns: Groundwater: de minimis extractors: fees: exemption. Primary sponsor: Esmeralda Soria (D). Most recent recorded action (September 30, 2026): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 963, Statutes of 2026.

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Official summary

Legislative Counsel’s Digest (official, as of the latest version). Written by nonpartisan legislative staff; reproduced verbatim.

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.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Esmeralda SoriaPrimary sponsorDemocraticAssembly27

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 963, Statutes of 2026.
  2. Approved by the Governor.
  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
  4. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6735.).
  5. From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (August 27).
  6. Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 6503.)
  7. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2.
  8. In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
  9. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5320.).
  10. Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
  11. From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 1).
  12. In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

Sources

  1. California Legislative Information — pubinfo database export
  2. Official bill page