AB 293: Groundwater sustainability agency: transparency.

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 commissions 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 agencys internet website, as provided. The bill would also require each groundwater sustainability agency to publish a link on its internet website or its local agencys internet website to the location on the Fair Political Practices Commissions internet website where the statements of economic interests, filed by the members of the board and executives of the agency, can be viewed.