BILL NUMBER: SB 568	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Fuller

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2015

   An act relating to groundwater management.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 568, as introduced, Fuller. Groundwater management.
   Existing law, 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. The act authorizes the State Water Resources Control Board
to designate a basin as a probationary basin if the state board
makes a certain determination and authorizes the state board to
develop an interim plan for the probationary basin.
   This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation relating to the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation relating to the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act.