Legislation: batch E — CA TN VA VT WA WI WV WY

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-3227.md

@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: stormwater facilities: routine maintenance."
+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: "20232024"
+identifier: "AB 3227"
+citation: "California AB 3227 (20232024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["California Environmental Quality Act", "exemption", "routine maintenance", "stormwater facilities"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Alvarez"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 24
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2024-02-16"
+last_action: "2024-09-27"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c228b37a-6bf4-4f6d-9e48-f30818b17761"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3227"
+source_hash: "9eac8dbfb9d0e46df39b355176e307e8bfd2a1aa0b613fdde9443392a67e4972"
+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 3227 (20232024) — California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: stormwater facilities: routine maintenance.
+
+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. **02/16/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3227&version=20230AB322799INT)
+2. **04/01/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3227&version=20230AB322798AMD)
+3. **04/15/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3227&version=20230AB322797AMD)
+4. **04/24/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3227&version=20230AB322796AMD)
+5. **09/27/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3227&version=20230AB322794CHP)
+6. **AB3227** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3227)
+7. **08/31/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3227&version=20230AB322795ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- AB 3227 Alvarez Consent Calendar Second Day — **71–0** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading AB3227 Alvarez By Atkins Urgency Clause — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **10–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **11–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Natural Resources and Water] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Alvarez — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2024-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
+- **2024-04-01** Referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and W., P., & W. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-01** 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-1, reading-2`
+- **2024-04-02** Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-15** 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-1, reading-2`
+- **2024-04-16** Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-23** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 22). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-24** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2024-04-25** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-05-08** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 8). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-05-09** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2024-05-16** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2024-05-16** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2024-05-29** Referred to Coms. on E.Q. and N.R. & W. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-06-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on N.R. & W. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
+- **2024-06-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
+- **2024-08-05** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
+- **2024-08-06** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2024-08-28** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2024-08-28** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
+- **2024-09-06** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
+- **2024-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2024-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 761, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c228b37a-6bf4-4f6d-9e48-f30818b17761`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
+