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AB 2728CALIFORNIASession 20252026State Billfiled

Assembly Bill 2728 Authorizes Local Governments to Exempt Small Groundwater Extractors from Management Fees

Original title: Groundwater: de minimis extractors: fees: exemption.

Record date · September 4, 2026

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What This Bill Would Do

Assembly Bill 2728 allows local governments and groundwater sustainability agencies to exempt small-scale ("de minimis") groundwater extractors from paying groundwater monitoring and management fees, provided specific findings are made. This change gives local water authorities the discretion to relieve small extractors from financial charges that they were previously subject to if regulated.

Why it matters

Small groundwater extractors may be relieved of local monitoring and management fees if local agencies choose to adopt exemptions under this authority, altering the distribution of funding responsibilities for local groundwater programs.

Who It Would Affect

Groups the bill's text would affect if enacted, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.

Directly affected

de minimis extractors

Small-scale groundwater extractors may become eligible for exemptions from local monitoring and management fees, levies, charges, or exactions.

Directly affected

groundwater sustainability agencies

Groundwater sustainability agencies gain the authority to exempt de minimis extractors from fees upon making specified findings.

Directly affected

local government

Local governments that impose fees for groundwater monitoring or management are authorized to apply exemptions for de minimis extractors.

Key Facts

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Frequently Asked Questions

Who is eligible for the fee exemption under AB 2728?

s, including certain regulated users, may be exempted from groundwater monitoring or management fees if the local government or makes specified findings.

Does AB 2728 automatically waive groundwater fees for small users everywhere?

No. The bill authorizes local governments and groundwater sustainability agencies to grant these exemptions upon making specified findings, meaning the decision is left up to local authorities.

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Where This Stands

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Comparing 02/20/26 - Introduced → 03/19/26 - Amended Assembly

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