HB2203 Summary

• Extends the historical water use period for subsequent active management areas from five years to ten years preceding the date of designation notice or election call for determining irrigation and non-irrigation grandfathered rights.

• Modifies the service area definition for irrigation districts by changing the lookback period from five years to ten years for determining acres legally irrigated, and caps additions to operating systems of canals and infrastructure after December 31, 2027.

• Updates terminology throughout the groundwater code by replacing "geographical" with "geographic," "such" with "those," "which" with "that," and similar grammatical corrections.

• Changes various prepositions and verb forms for consistency, including "upon" to "on," "prior to" to "before," and "his" to "the person's."

• Applies retroactively to August 29, 2022.