---
type: "Bill"
title: "California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: residential infill projects."
description: "(1) The California Environmental Quality Act, commonly referred to as 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: "20132014"
identifier: "SB 674"
citation: "California SB 674 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: residential infill projects."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Corbett"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 26
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2013-02-22"
last_action: "2014-09-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/033994ec-a4c3-4247-acf2-1fcef969ba70"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB674"
source_hash: "8a7ef8b70872a5ca9801a1f704fe07add97be2085132649955bef5e866122e93"
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 674 (20132014) — California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: residential infill projects.

(1) The California Environmental Quality Act, commonly referred to as 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. **02/22/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB674&version=20130SB67499INT)
2. **01/06/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB674&version=20130SB67498AMD)
3. **09/25/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB674&version=20130SB67496CHP)
4. **SB674** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB674)
5. **08/18/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB674&version=20130SB67497ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Local Government. — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 674 Corbett Consent Calendar Second Day — **78–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Corbett — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-02-22** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
- **2013-02-23** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 25.
- **2013-02-25** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2013-03-11** Referred to Com. on E., U., & C. `referral-committee`
- **2014-01-06** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E., U., & C. `committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-01-06** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2014-01-06** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2014-01-09** Re-referred to Com. on E.Q. `referral-committee`
- **2014-01-10** Set for hearing January 15.
- **2014-01-16** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 2615.) (January 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-01-17** Set for hearing January 21.
- **2014-01-21** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2014-01-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-01-23** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 2637.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-01-23** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2014-05-08** Referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-12** Assembly Rule 56 (pending re-referral to L. Gov.) suspended. (Page 5488.)
- **2014-06-17** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 16). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-06-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-08-07** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 6). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-08-11** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-08-14** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6017.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-08-14** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2014-08-20** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2014-09-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-09-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 549, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/033994ec-a4c3-4247-acf2-1fcef969ba70`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).