---
type: "Bill"
title: "California Environmental Quality Act: Oakland Sports and Mixed-Use Project."
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 (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 by which a person may seek judicial review of the decision of the lead agency made pursuant to CEQA. CEQA requires a court to make specified orders if it finds that any determination, finding, or decision of a public agency has been made without compliance with CEQA."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 734"
citation: "California AB 734 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["California Environmental Quality Act: Oakland Sports and Mixed-Use Project."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bonta"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 36
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2017-02-15"
last_action: "2018-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f157880c-38d1-40f2-8c4f-caa70e8cd283"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB734"
source_hash: "8cbf53a6191be30f599c16d8380aaab6e65531e45aa49dd01a0a115af187cca8"
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 734 (20172018) — California Environmental Quality Act: Oakland Sports and Mixed-Use Project.

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 by which a person may seek judicial review of the decision of the lead agency made pursuant to CEQA. CEQA requires a court to make specified orders if it finds that any determination, finding, or decision of a public agency has been made without compliance with CEQA.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/15/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB734&version=20170AB73499INT)
2. **03/23/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB734&version=20170AB73498AMD)
3. **06/04/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB734&version=20170AB73497AMD)
4. **07/03/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB734&version=20170AB73496AMD)
5. **08/21/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB734&version=20170AB73495AMD)
6. **08/28/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB734&version=20170AB73494AMD)
7. **09/30/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB734&version=20170AB73492CHP)
8. **AB734** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB734)
9. **09/05/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB734&version=20170AB73493ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–1** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 734 Bonta Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **66–4** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bonta — primary (person)
- Quirk — coauthor (person)
- Skinner — coauthor (person)
- Stone — coauthor (person)
- Thurmond — author (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-15** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2017-02-16** From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
- **2017-03-23** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-23** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-03-27** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2017-05-04** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (May 3). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-05-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-05-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 63. Noes 9. Page 1479.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-05-11** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2017-05-24** Referred to Coms. on GOV. & F. and T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-13** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2018-06-04** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction`
- **2018-06-06** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2018-06-06** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-13** Re-referred to Coms. on EQ. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-21** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2018-07-02** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (June 26). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2018-07-03** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2018-08-06** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2018-08-13** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2018-08-20** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 16). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2018-08-21** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
- **2018-08-28** Senate Rule 29.3(b) suspended. (Ayes 33. Noes 1. Page 5855.)
- **2018-08-28** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2018-08-28** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction`
- **2018-08-29** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2018-08-29** Ordered to third reading.
- **2018-08-31** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 6159.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-08-31** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2018-08-31** Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. `referral-committee`
- **2018-08-31** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended.
- **2018-08-31** From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (August 31). `committee-passage`
- **2018-08-31** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 66. Noes 4.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2018-09-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2018-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2018-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 959, Statutes of 2018.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f157880c-38d1-40f2-8c4f-caa70e8cd283`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).