California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Assembly Bill
AB 293: Groundwater sustainability agency: transparency.
Enacted Official data
- Introduced
- In committee
- Passed one chamber
- Passed both chambers
- Enacted
Last official action: ·Record last updated:
Plain-language summary
AB 293 is a assembly bill introduced in the California Assembly on January 22, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Groundwater sustainability agency: transparency. Primary sponsor: Steve Bennett (D). Most recent recorded action (October 6, 2025): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 359, Statutes of 2025.
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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, 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. Existing law requires a groundwater sustainability plan to be developed and implemented for each medium- or high-priority basin by a groundwater sustainability agency. 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, as provided. Existing law requires members of the board of directors and the executive, as defined, of a groundwater sustainability agency to file statements of economic interests with the Fair Political Practices Commission using the commission’s online system for filing statements of economic interests.
This bill would require each groundwater sustainability agency to publish the membership of its board of directors on its internet website, or on the local agency’s internet website, as provided. The bill would also require each groundwater sustainability agency to publish a link on its internet website or its local agency’s internet website to the location on the Fair Political Practices Commission’s internet website where the statements of economic interests, filed by the members of the board and executives of the agency, can be viewed.
Sponsors
Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1
| Name | Role | Party | Chamber | District |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steve Bennett | Primary sponsor | Democratic | Assembly | 38 |
“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.
Recent official actions
- Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 359, Statutes of 2025.
- Approved by the Governor.
- Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.
- Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 3. Page 2426.).
- Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
- From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 10).
- Referred to Com. on N.R. & W.
- In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
- Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 62. Noes 5. Page 958.)
- Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
- From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 2.) (March 25).