---
type: "Bill"
title: "California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: public agencies: land transfers."
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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 782"
citation: "California AB 782 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: public agencies: land transfers."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Berman"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-02-19"
last_action: "2019-08-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/081991e2-51db-4a9d-9941-f35d83dbfbf4"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB782"
source_hash: "3b7fcab1741559be60db7b15bb74afbea9f987e404f952de478fb92b59fe5925"
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 782 (20192020) — California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: public agencies: land transfers.

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.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/19/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB782&version=20190AB78299INT)
2. **04/02/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB782&version=20190AB78298AMD)
3. **05/28/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB782&version=20190AB78297AMD)
4. **08/30/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB782&version=20190AB78295CHP)
5. **AB782** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB782)
6. **08/16/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB782&version=20190AB78296ENR)

## Votes

- AB 782 Berman Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 782 Berman Consent Calendar Second Day — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar AB782 — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Berman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-19** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2019-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
- **2019-02-28** Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-01** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (March 25). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-04-02** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-04-03** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-10** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 10). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-11** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-04-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1361.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-04-25** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-05-08** Referred to Com. on EQ. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-28** 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`
- **2019-06-05** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 5). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-24** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2019-06-25** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-07-01** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1878.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-07-01** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 3 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2019-08-15** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2716.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-08-23** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2019-08-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-08-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 181, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/081991e2-51db-4a9d-9941-f35d83dbfbf4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).