Water Committee Endorsed California Legislation for 2023

May 2023

Our chapter’s water committee has endorsed the state bills listed below.

Assembly Bills:

• AB 30 (Ward) Atmospheric Rivers: Research, Mitigation and Climate Forecasting

• AB 57 (Kalra) California Pocket Forest Initiative

• AB 460 (Bauer-Kahan) Water Resources Control Board: Water Rights Enforcement

• AB 923 (Bauer-Kahan) Flood Plains Restoration Projects: Central Valley

• AB 1337 (Wicks) Water Resources Control Board: Water Diversion Curtailment

• AB 1407 (Laird) Coastal Resources: Ocean Recovery and Restoration

• AB 1563 (Bennett) Groundwater Sustainability Agency: Extraction Permits Review

• AB 1567 (Garcia et al) Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparation, Flood Protection, Extreme Heat Mitigation, and Workforce Development Bond Act

• AB 1572 (Friedman) Potable Water, Nonfunctional Turf

Senate Bills:

• SB 48 (Becker) Building Energy Savings Act

• SB 231 (Hurtado) Water Measurement

• SB 389 (Allen) Water Diversion Investigation and Prevention

• SB 416 (Laird) State Agency Building Projects, LEED Certification

• SB 597 (Glazer) Rainwater Capture Systems: New Buildings

• SB 638 (Eggman & Niello) Climate Resiliency and Flood Protection Bond of 2024

• SB 688 (Padilla) Agrivoltaic Systems: Grant Funding

• SB 867 (Allen et al) Drought and Water Resilience, Wildfire, Forest, Coastal Resilience Bond Act