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+type: "Bill"
+title: "California Environmental Quality Act: administrative and judicial procedures: record of proceedings: judicial streamlining."
+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 (EIR) 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: "SB 149"
+citation: "California SB 149 (20232024)"
+classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
+subjects: ["California Environmental Quality Act", "administrative and judicial procedures", "judicial streamlining", "record of proceedings"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Caballero"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2023-01-18"
+last_action: "2023-07-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0fab1d26-4af9-4284-9aa9-f89feb10807d"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB149"
+source_hash: "1b88ff60b3c842bae60aa4db4cf7d77161dfa399b0de33de67913eeb11cc1fc3"
+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 SB 149 (20232024) — California Environmental Quality Act: administrative and judicial procedures: record of proceedings: judicial streamlining.
+
+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 (EIR) 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. **01/18/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB149&version=20230SB14999INT)
+2. **06/26/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB149&version=20230SB14998AMD)
+3. **06/28/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB149&version=20230SB14997AMD)
+4. **07/10/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB149&version=20230SB14995CHP)
+5. **SB149** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB149)
+6. **07/05/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB149&version=20230SB14996ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do pass. — **9–0** (pass) · lower
+- Unfinished Business SB149 Caballero et al. Urgency Clause Concurrence — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- SB 149 Caballero Third Reading Urgency Amend By DAVIES Set #1 Motion to Lay on the Table By REYES — **56–13** (pass) · lower
+- SB 149 Caballero Third Reading Urgency By BAUER-KAHAN — **68–0** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading SB149 B. & F.R. — **29–8** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Caballero — primary (person)
+- Becker — author (person)
+- Robert Rivas — author (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-18** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2023-01-19** From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 18.
+- **2023-01-25** Referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-16** Withdrawn from committee. (Ayes 28. Noes 8. Page 357.)
+- **2023-03-16** Ordered to second reading.
+- **2023-03-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2023-03-27** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 8. Page 501.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2023-03-27** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
+- **2023-03-30** Referred to Com. on BUDGET. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-06-26** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2023-06-27** Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-06-27** Joint Rule 62(a) suspended.
+- **2023-06-28** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2023-06-29** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 29). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-06-30** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2023-07-03** Amendments by Assembly Member Davies tabled on motion by Assembly Member Reyes. (Ayes 56. Noes 13. Page 2539.)
+- **2023-07-03** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 68. Noes 0. Page 2540.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2023-07-03** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
+- **2023-07-05** Urgency clause adopted.
+- **2023-07-05** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1897.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-07-05** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
+- **2023-07-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2023-07-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 60, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0fab1d26-4af9-4284-9aa9-f89feb10807d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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