---
type: "Bill"
title: "California Environmental Quality Act: biogas pipelines: exemption."
description: "(1) The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report on a project, as defined, that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment, as defined, or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA provides some exemptions from its requirements for specified projects, including for a project that consists of the inspection, maintenance, repair, restoration, reconditioning, relocation, replacement, or removal of an existing pipeline, as defined, if specified conditions are met."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 1104"
citation: "California AB 1104 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["California Environmental Quality Act: biogas pipelines: exemption."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Salas"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 31
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2013-02-22"
last_action: "2014-09-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d9cedb3d-ec05-49d6-81ae-2c96b199e3ec"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1104"
source_hash: "089afa97005df732b005cab46d3c32591ed3efbf638097560ec015d890d73106"
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 1104 (20132014) — California Environmental Quality Act: biogas pipelines: exemption.

(1) The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report on a project, as defined, that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment, as defined, or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA provides some exemptions from its requirements for specified projects, including for a project that consists of the inspection, maintenance, repair, restoration, reconditioning, relocation, replacement, or removal of an existing pipeline, as defined, if specified conditions are met.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/22/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1104&version=20130AB110499INT)
2. **01/06/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1104&version=20130AB110498AMD)
3. **01/07/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1104&version=20130AB110497AMD)
4. **01/17/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1104&version=20130AB110496AMD)
5. **01/27/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1104&version=20130AB110495AMD)
6. **09/25/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1104&version=20130AB110493CHP)
7. **AB1104** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1104)
8. **08/15/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1104&version=20130AB110494ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **2–2** (fail) · upper
- Be referred to Committee on Natural Resources. — **7–4** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1104 Salas By Lara — **33–1** (pass) · upper
- AB 1104 SALAS Assembly Third Reading — **77–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **4–3** (pass) · upper
- Set, second hearing. Failed passage in Committee. Reconsideration granted. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **6–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Salas — primary (person)
- Gatto — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-02-22** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2013-02-24** From printer. May be heard in committee March 26.
- **2013-02-25** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2014-01-06** Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2014-01-06** 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-2, reading-1`
- **2014-01-07** Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2014-01-07** 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-2, reading-1`
- **2014-01-08** Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2014-01-09** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. `referral-committee`
- **2014-01-09** (Ayes 50. Noes 22. Page 3534.)
- **2014-01-09** From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 4.) (January 9). Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-01-16** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (January 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2014-01-17** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-01-21** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2014-01-27** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (January 23). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2014-01-27** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-01-28** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-01-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 1. Page 3725.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-01-29** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2014-02-06** Referred to Com. on E.Q. `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-02** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2014-06-18** In committee: Set second hearing. Failed passage. Reconsideration granted.
- **2014-06-23** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 4046.)
- **2014-06-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 3.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-08-04** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2014-08-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-08-14** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 1. Page 4499.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-08-14** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2014-08-19** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2014-09-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-09-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 534, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d9cedb3d-ec05-49d6-81ae-2c96b199e3ec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).