---
type: "Bill"
title: "California Environmental Quality Act: record of proceedings."
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. CEQA establishes a procedure for the preparation and certification of the record of proceedings upon the filing of an action or proceeding challenging a lead agency's action on the grounds of noncompliance with CEQA."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "SB 122"
citation: "California SB 122 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["California Environmental Quality Act: record of proceedings."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jackson"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 28
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2015-01-15"
last_action: "2016-09-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/018b3798-2f16-4b6f-b763-faa73ae81eb3"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB122"
source_hash: "f4a05894e4bd1b58f74363c684ab7f5d97f40d4599bdf274ceacad54b299d64e"
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 122 (20152016) — California Environmental Quality Act: record of proceedings.

(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. CEQA establishes a procedure for the preparation and certification of the record of proceedings upon the filing of an action or proceeding challenging a lead agency's action on the grounds of noncompliance with CEQA.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/15/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB122&version=20150SB12299INT)
2. **03/12/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB122&version=20150SB12298AMD)
3. **03/26/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB122&version=20150SB12297AMD)
4. **04/20/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB122&version=20150SB12296AMD)
5. **06/01/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB122&version=20150SB12295AMD)
6. **08/15/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB122&version=20150SB12294AMD)
7. **09/22/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB122&version=20150SB12292CHP)
8. **SB122** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB122)
9. **08/26/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB122&version=20150SB12293ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–1** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB122 Jackson Concurrence — **25–14** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **11–3** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–1** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading — **24–15** (pass) · upper
- SB 122 Jackson Senate Third Reading By THURMOND — **55–18** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jackson — primary (person)
- Hertzberg — coauthor (person)
- Hill — author (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-01-15** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2015-01-16** From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 15.
- **2015-02-05** Referred to Com. on E.Q. `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-12** 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`
- **2015-03-17** Set for hearing April 15.
- **2015-03-26** 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`
- **2015-04-16** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 648.) (April 15). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2015-04-20** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-24** Set for hearing May 4.
- **2015-05-04** May 4 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2015-05-23** Set for hearing May 28.
- **2015-05-28** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1147.) (May 28). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2015-06-01** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-06-03** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 24. Noes 15. Page 1289.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-06-04** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2015-06-11** Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2015-06-30** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-07-15** July 15 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2015-08-27** August 27 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2016-08-12** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (August 11). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-08-15** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-08-16** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-08-23** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 55. Noes 18. Page 6098.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-23** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2016-08-24** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 25. Noes 14. Page 5372.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2016-08-30** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
- **2016-09-22** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-09-22** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 476, Statutes of 2016.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/018b3798-2f16-4b6f-b763-faa73ae81eb3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).