---
type: "Bill"
title: "California Environmental Quality Act: City of San Diego: Old Town Center redevelopment."
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. 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 and 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: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 2731"
citation: "California AB 2731 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["California Environmental Quality Act: City of San Diego: Old Town Center redevelopment."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gloria"]
version_count: 13
action_count: 31
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2020-02-20"
last_action: "2020-09-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/38266706-1896-4646-b060-90444443e42c"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2731"
source_hash: "05fe78ac0343f2c4b9994f7fbc09089ac6bcf7d137022c07a46de2c07182cd51"
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 2731 (20192020) — California Environmental Quality Act: City of San Diego: Old Town Center redevelopment.

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. 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 and 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. **02/20/20 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2731&version=20190AB273199INT)
2. **05/04/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2731&version=20190AB273198AMD)
3. **05/06/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2731&version=20190AB273197AMD)
4. **06/03/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2731&version=20190AB273196AMD)
5. **07/02/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2731&version=20190AB273195AMD)
6. **07/14/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2731&version=20190AB273194AMD)
7. **08/03/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2731&version=20190AB273193AMD)
8. **08/17/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2731&version=20190AB273192AMD)
9. **08/25/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2731&version=20190AB273191AMD)
10. **08/27/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2731&version=20190AB273190AMD)
11. **09/29/20 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2731&version=20190AB273188CHP)
12. **AB2731** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2731)
13. **09/04/20 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2731&version=20190AB273189ENR)

## Votes

- AB 2731 Gloria Consent Calendar Second Day — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2731 Gloria Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **74–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB2731 Gloria et al. By Atkins — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gloria — primary (person)
- Atkins — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-20** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2020-02-21** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
- **2020-04-24** Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-04** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-05-05** Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-06** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-05-07** Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-14** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (May 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-06-02** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (June 2). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-06-03** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-06-04** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-06-10** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 4800.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-06-11** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2020-07-01** Referred to Com. on EQ. `referral-committee`
- **2020-07-02** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on EQ. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-07-14** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on EQ. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-08-03** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on EQ. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-08-14** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 14). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-08-17** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-08-19** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2020-08-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-08-25** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-08-26** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-08-27** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-08-28** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-08-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-08-30** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2020-08-31** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 5434.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-09-15** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2020-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2020-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 291, Statutes of 2020.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/38266706-1896-4646-b060-90444443e42c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).