View the event summary video here. Prospects for fall-run Chinook salmon, born during the height of California’s historic drought, are greatly improved because of the efforts and collaboration by local,…
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Advocacy
Representing Regional Needs on Legislative and Regulatory Policies
In 2013, the Regional Water Authority Board of Directors approved a five-year strategic plan. A key component of the plan was advocacy. The Board’s goal: Ensure that regional needs and concerns are positively represented on legislative and regulatory policies and actions. To achieve this goal, RWA launched the Advocacy Program and dedicated resources to a contract lobbyist and staffing for the program. Since 2015, RWA members have worked together to develop the program by creating a structure, identifying priorities, setting goals and engaging members in a vision. In 2016, RWA launched the program on a subscription basis. In 2019, the Advocacy Program embarked as a permanent program offered to members. The transition was testament to the program’s accomplishments and results.
2022 Legislative Session
Please see the current list of bills with a formal position through the link below. Additionally, please check back for updates on these bills, and what the legislative process will look like for the remainder of the 2020 session. Current List of Bills
| SB 1157 Oppose Unless Amended (Coalition Letter) AB 2142 Support (Coalition Letter) AB 2201 Oppose Unless Amended (Letter) Committee Analysis |
AB 2895 Oppose Unless Amended (Letter) SB 222 Support if Amended (Letter) (Proposed Amendments) AB 2449 Support (Letter) |
Read RWA’s Federal Legislative Platform (approved by the RWA Board on January 14, 2021) Read RWA’s Board Approved RWA Legislative And Regulatory Policy Principles (approved by the RWA Board on January 14, 2021) Read the 2021 Advocacy Program Highlights.
For information about RWA’s Advocacy Program, contact Ryan Ojakian, Legislative and Regulatory Affairs Manager.
Legislative and Regulatory News
Please join us at “The Drought Salmon Return: State of the Salmon Run and Lower American River Event” on Thursday, November 16, at 10:30 a.m. at the Nimbus Fish Hatchery…
September 15 marked the final day of the legislative session in California. Throughout 2017, the Regional Water Authority (RWA) worked to shape legislation believed to be critical to the Sacramento…
Throughout this year, a broad coalition of water suppliers, associations and business groups from throughout the state were engaged in the development of legislation to implement the vision of the…
Permanent Water Conservation The Regional Water Authority (RWA) has been working for more than a year with a broad coalition of water suppliers, associations and business groups from throughout the…
The Regional Water Authority (RWA) joined more than 100 water suppliers, associations and business groups in sending a letter today to the Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee, urging them…
Currently, the State Legislature is considering whether to require permanent conservation from communities across California, with new rules developed and enforced by unelected and unaccountable state regulators. More than 100…
Story updated May 25, 2017 The Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee on April 25 approved two RWA co-sponsored bills aimed at enhancing drought preparedness and long-term water efficiency, moving them…
While California is breathing a sigh of relief and rightfully celebrating an epic water year, efforts in Sacramento threaten to make seismic changes in the way our water has been…
John Woodling, Executive Director of the Regional Water Authority, which represents 21 water providers in the Sacramento region, issued the following statement regarding Gov. Brown’s final report “Making Water Conservation…
