---
type: "Bill"
title: "California Environmental Quality Act: exemptions."
description: "California Environmental Quality Act: exemptions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 2922"
citation: "California AB 2922 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["California Environmental Quality Act: exemptions."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Laird"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2004-02-20"
last_action: "2004-09-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/12442fd2-84b4-45e4-9dc3-8b2a1934329f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2922"
source_hash: "8eda7fa0fb859f90f258ed6ce257b049640facde3ce18c075f0d6729d79830a0"
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 2922 (20032004) — California Environmental Quality Act: exemptions.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/20/04 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2922&version=20030AB292299INT)
2. **04/12/04 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2922&version=20030AB292298AMD)
3. **08/23/04 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2922&version=20030AB292297AMD)
4. **09/22/04 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2922&version=20030AB292295CHP)
5. **AB2922** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2922)
6. **08/26/04 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2922&version=20030AB292296ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- assembly 3rd reading ab2922 laird by sher — **pass** (pass) · upper
- ab 2922 laird assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Laird — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2004-09-22** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 684, Statutes of 2004.
- **2004-09-22** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2004-09-14** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2004-08-26** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 7802.) Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 77. Noes 1. Page 7847.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2004-08-25** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 27 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2004-08-25** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 1. Page 5336.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-08-23** From inactive file. To second reading. Read second time, amended, and to third reading. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2004-06-21** To inactive file on motion of Senator Sher.
- **2004-06-15** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-06-14** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2004-05-27** Referred to Com. on ENV. QUAL. `referral-committee`
- **2004-05-10** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2004-05-10** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 5. Page 5617.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-05-05** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-05-04** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (May 3). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2004-04-12** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Natural Resources Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Standing Committee on Natural Resources In committee: Hearing postponed by committee. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-03-15** Referred to Standing Committee on Natural Resources. `referral-committee`
- **2004-02-22** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- **2004-02-20** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/12442fd2-84b4-45e4-9dc3-8b2a1934329f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).