---
type: "Bill"
title: "Environmental quality: California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: bicycle lanes."
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: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 2245"
citation: "California AB 2245 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Environmental quality: California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: bicycle lanes."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Smyth"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 27
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2012-02-24"
last_action: "2012-09-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8b433529-71ad-4cbd-9761-5e5600182afe"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2245"
source_hash: "f9b78344de452c0317193b93f99b84eb7da13dd9c224a28a959111a18d8e3334"
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 2245 (20112012) — Environmental quality: California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: bicycle lanes.

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. **02/24/12 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2245&version=20110AB224599INT)
2. **03/15/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2245&version=20110AB224598AMD)
3. **05/15/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2245&version=20110AB224597AMD)
4. **08/07/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2245&version=20110AB224596AMD)
5. **09/28/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2245&version=20110AB224594CHP)
6. **AB2245** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2245)
7. **08/29/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2245&version=20110AB224595ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB2245 Smyth By Rubio — **36–1** (pass) · upper
- AB 2245 SMYTH Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **73–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2245 SMYTH Assembly Third Reading — **73–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **8–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Smyth — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2012-02-24** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2012-02-26** From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
- **2012-02-27** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2012-03-15** Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2012-03-15** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-03-19** Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2012-04-16** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2012-05-14** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (May 7). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-05-15** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-05-16** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-05-21** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 4919.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-05-21** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2012-05-31** Referred to Com. on E.Q. `referral-committee`
- **2012-08-06** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 2). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-08-07** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-08-08** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5. `referral-committee`
- **2012-08-13** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2012-08-14** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-08-15** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2012-08-20** From consent calendar.
- **2012-08-20** Ordered to third reading.
- **2012-08-21** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 1. Page 4637.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-08-22** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2012-08-24** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 6245.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2012-08-31** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2012-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2012-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 680, Statutes of 2012.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8b433529-71ad-4cbd-9761-5e5600182afe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).