---
type: "Bill"
title: "Environmental quality: California Environmental Quality Act: bicycle transportation plan."
description: "The California Environmental Quality Act, known as CEQA, requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report, known as an 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. CEQA requires the lead agencies to make specified findings in an EIR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 417"
citation: "California AB 417 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Environmental quality: California Environmental Quality Act: bicycle transportation plan."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Frazier"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 27
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2013-02-15"
last_action: "2013-10-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cbbd4afa-d3ef-483c-8216-94093856c74e"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB417"
source_hash: "7c961f70dd158b94aea8a669923d0a16894965976a6704d46bee7ac2688f69d0"
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 417 (20132014) — Environmental quality: California Environmental Quality Act: bicycle transportation plan.

The California Environmental Quality Act, known as CEQA, requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report, known as an 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. CEQA requires the lead agencies to make specified findings in an EIR.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/15/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB417&version=20130AB41799INT)
2. **04/18/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB417&version=20130AB41798AMD)
3. **06/13/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB417&version=20130AB41797AMD)
4. **10/07/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB417&version=20130AB41795CHP)
5. **AB417** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB417)
6. **09/19/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB417&version=20130AB41796ENR)

## Votes

- AB 417 FRAZIER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **72–3** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent #10 AB417 Frazier By Wolk — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 417 FRAZIER Assembly Third Reading — **70–2** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **7–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **13–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Frazier — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-02-15** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2013-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- **2013-03-11** Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-02** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (April 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-04-17** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 17). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-04-18** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-04-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-04-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 2. Page 1112.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-04-25** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2013-05-09** Referred to Com. on E.Q. `referral-committee`
- **2013-06-13** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E.Q. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-06-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-07-11** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2013-08-12** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-08-15** Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Roth.
- **2013-09-04** From inactive file.
- **2013-09-04** Ordered to second reading.
- **2013-09-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-09-10** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2013-09-11** From Special Consent Calendar.
- **2013-09-11** Ordered to third reading.
- **2013-09-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2360.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-09-11** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2013-09-12** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 72. Noes 3. Page 3297.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2013-09-25** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2013-10-07** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2013-10-07** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 613, Statutes of 2013.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cbbd4afa-d3ef-483c-8216-94093856c74e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).