---
type: "Bill"
title: "California Environmental Quality Act: Los Angeles Regional Interoperable Communications System: exemption."
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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "SB 1008"
citation: "California SB 1008 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["California Environmental Quality Act: Los Angeles Regional Interoperable Communications System: exemption."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lara"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 27
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2016-02-11"
last_action: "2016-09-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f8faf808-367a-4b32-8fb4-cafde0b32f6c"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1008"
source_hash: "2932ef3d5a96c210f538a1d51d630bfc66213049580e0842313f4d97d336c3c8"
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 1008 (20152016) — California Environmental Quality Act: Los Angeles Regional Interoperable Communications System: exemption.

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.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/11/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1008&version=20150SB100899INT)
2. **03/28/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1008&version=20150SB100898AMD)
3. **04/27/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1008&version=20150SB100897AMD)
4. **08/01/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1008&version=20150SB100896AMD)
5. **09/24/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1008&version=20150SB100894CHP)
6. **SB1008** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1008)
7. **09/02/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1008&version=20150SB100895ENR)

## Votes

- SB 1008 Lara Senate Third Reading By GIPSON — **78–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] — **8–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB1008 Lara Concurrence — **34–2** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB1008 Lara Concurrence — **35–2** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **20–0** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB1008 Lara Concurrence Reconsider — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Lara — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-02-11** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2016-02-12** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 13.
- **2016-02-25** Referred to Com. on E.Q. `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-15** Set for hearing April 6.
- **2016-03-28** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.Q. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-04-06** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 3418.) (April 6). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-04-27** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-04-29** Set for hearing May 9.
- **2016-05-09** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2016-05-10** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-05-12** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 3845.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-05-12** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2016-05-27** Referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-14** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (June 13). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-06-30** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-08-01** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-03** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (August 3). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-08-04** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-08-18** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 1. Page 5890.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-29** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2016-08-30** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 34. Noes 2. Page 5530.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2016-08-30** Motion to reconsider made by Senator Lara.
- **2016-08-30** Reconsideration granted. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5534.)
- **2016-08-30** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 35. Noes 2. Page 5535.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2016-09-08** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
- **2016-09-24** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-09-24** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 588, Statutes of 2016.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f8faf808-367a-4b32-8fb4-cafde0b32f6c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).