Amended IN Senate June 06, 2024 Amended IN Assembly March 21, 2024 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 2799Introduced by Assembly Member Vince Fong Alanis(Coauthor: Assembly Member Soria)February 15, 2024An act to add Section 10730.3 to the Water Code, relating to water. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 2799, as amended, Vince Fong Alanis. Sustainable groundwater management: 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 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 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: NO Bill TextThe 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 either imposing or increasing fees pursuant to Section 10730 or 10730.2.
Amended IN Senate June 06, 2024 Amended IN Assembly March 21, 2024 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 2799Introduced by Assembly Member Vince Fong Alanis(Coauthor: Assembly Member Soria)February 15, 2024An act to add Section 10730.3 to the Water Code, relating to water. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 2799, as amended, Vince Fong Alanis. Sustainable groundwater management: 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 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 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: NO
Amended IN Senate June 06, 2024 Amended IN Assembly March 21, 2024
Amended IN Senate June 06, 2024
Amended IN Assembly March 21, 2024
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2799
Introduced by Assembly Member Vince Fong Alanis(Coauthor: Assembly Member Soria)February 15, 2024
Introduced by Assembly Member Vince Fong Alanis(Coauthor: Assembly Member Soria)
February 15, 2024
An act to add Section 10730.3 to the Water Code, relating to water.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2799, as amended, Vince Fong Alanis. Sustainable groundwater management: 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 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 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.
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 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 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
## Bill 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 either imposing or increasing fees pursuant to Section 10730 or 10730.2.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
## 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 either imposing or increasing fees pursuant to Section 10730 or 10730.2.
SECTION 1. Section 10730.3 is added to the Water Code, to read:
### SECTION 1.
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 either imposing or increasing fees pursuant to Section 10730 or 10730.2.
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 either imposing or increasing fees pursuant to Section 10730 or 10730.2.
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 either imposing or increasing fees pursuant to Section 10730 or 10730.2.
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 either imposing or increasing fees pursuant to Section 10730 or 10730.2.