---
type: "Bill"
title: "California Environmental Quality Act: administrative and judicial review procedures: City of Los Angeles: stadium."
description: "(1) 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: "20112012"
identifier: "SB 292"
citation: "California SB 292 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["California Environmental Quality Act: administrative and judicial review procedures: City of Los Angeles: stadium."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Padilla"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 40
vote_count: 11
first_action: "2011-02-14"
last_action: "2011-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f13d8c40-d1c9-4662-8c84-3c61fda87b60"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB292"
source_hash: "bf83b287ebec9f39952b4872017524e391571b6539c3dda1a3a93d006197ab11"
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 292 (20112012) — California Environmental Quality Act: administrative and judicial review procedures: City of Los Angeles: stadium.

(1) 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. **02/14/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB292&version=20110SB29299INT)
2. **03/23/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB292&version=20110SB29298AMD)
3. **06/28/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB292&version=20110SB29297AMD)
4. **08/15/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB292&version=20110SB29296AMD)
5. **08/30/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB292&version=20110SB29295AMD)
6. **09/02/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB292&version=20110SB29294AMD)
7. **09/07/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB292&version=20110SB29293AMD)
8. **09/27/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB292&version=20110SB29291CHP)
9. **SB292** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB292)
10. **09/13/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB292&version=20110SB29292ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 292 Padilla Senate Third Reading Motion to Suspend the Rules — **49–26** (pass) · lower
- From committee: That the Assembly Amendments be concurred in. — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **7–1** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB292 Padilla Concurrence — **32–7** (pass) · upper
- SB 292 Padilla Senate Third Reading Amend By LARA Set #1 — **43–28** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **5–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **11–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 292 Padilla Senate Third Reading By PÉREZ, J. — **63–13** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Padilla — primary (person)
- Alejo — coauthor (person)
- Allen — coauthor (person)
- Berryhill — coauthor (person)
- Beth Gaines — coauthor (person)
- Blumenfield — principal coauthor (person)
- Bonnie Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
- Bradford — principal coauthor (person)
- Butler — coauthor (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Campos — principal coauthor (person)
- Cedillo — coauthor (person)
- Correa — coauthor (person)
- Dutton — coauthor (person)
- Feuer — principal coauthor (person)
- Gaines — coauthor (person)
- John A. Pérez — principal coauthor (person)
- Lara — principal coauthor (person)
- Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
- Mitchell — coauthor (person)
- Pan — coauthor (person)
- Pavley — coauthor (person)
- Price — coauthor (person)
- Roger Hernández — coauthor (person)
- Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Runner — coauthor (person)
- Smyth — coauthor (person)
- Strickland — coauthor (person)
- Wright — coauthor (person)
- Wyland — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-02-14** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2011-02-15** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17.
- **2011-02-24** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-23** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-03-31** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-21** Set for hearing May 4.
- **2011-05-04** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 850.) (May 4). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-06** Set for hearing May 16.
- **2011-05-17** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2011-05-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-05-27** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1140.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-05-27** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2011-06-09** Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-21** Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2011-06-28** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. `reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-07-06** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (July 5). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-08-15** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-08-17** Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2011-08-29** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (August 25). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-08-30** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-08-31** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-09-02** Assembly Rule 69 suspended. (Ayes 49. Noes 26. Page 2806.)
- **2011-09-02** Read third time and amended. (Ayes 43. Noes 28. Page 2862.) `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-09-02** Ordered to third reading.
- **2011-09-06** Re-referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and APPR. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. `referral-committee`
- **2011-09-06** Joint Rule 62(a) file notice suspended. (Page 2885.)
- **2011-09-06** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (September 6). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-09-06** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (September 6). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-09-07** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-09-07** (Corrected September 9).
- **2011-09-07** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 63. Noes 13. Page 2982.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-09-07** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2011-09-08** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10. `referral-committee`
- **2011-09-08** From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on E.Q. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 2382.) Re-referred to Com. on E.Q. `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2011-09-08** From committee: That the Assembly amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 2433.) `committee-passage`
- **2011-09-09** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 32. Noes 7. Page 2443.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2011-09-14** (Enrolled measure version corrected.)
- **2011-09-16** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 10:30 a.m.
- **2011-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2011-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 353, Statutes of 2011.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f13d8c40-d1c9-4662-8c84-3c61fda87b60`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).