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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "California Environmental Quality Act."
+description: "The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20172018"
+identifier: "AB 2782"
+citation: "California AB 2782 (20172018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["California Environmental Quality Act."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Friedman"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2018-02-16"
+last_action: "2018-08-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f7c76c5c-e410-477d-abc1-a289c45106fc"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2782"
+source_hash: "be9ae40c83c6f5fbf552179c245901f68b7104544491cde1f3f2849e06621442"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
+---
+
+# California AB 2782 (20172018) — California Environmental Quality Act.
+
+The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/16/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2782&version=20170AB278299INT)
+2. **04/02/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2782&version=20170AB278298AMD)
+3. **04/30/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2782&version=20170AB278297AMD)
+4. **08/24/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2782&version=20170AB278295CHP)
+5. **AB2782** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2782)
+6. **08/10/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2782&version=20170AB278296ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading AB2782 Friedman By Wiener — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- AB 2782 FRIEDMAN Assembly Third Reading — **74–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Friedman — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2018-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
+- **2018-04-02** Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-04-02** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2018-04-03** Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-04-26** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 23). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
+- **2018-04-30** Read second time and amended. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
+- **2018-05-01** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-05-23** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 23). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2018-05-24** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2018-05-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 1. Page 5382.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2018-05-30** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2018-06-07** Referred to Com. on EQ. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-06-21** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2018-08-06** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
+- **2018-08-07** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2018-08-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 5237.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2018-08-09** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
+- **2018-08-14** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
+- **2018-08-24** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2018-08-24** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 193, Statutes of 2018.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f7c76c5c-e410-477d-abc1-a289c45106fc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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