---
type: "Bill"
title: "California Environmental Quality Act: local agencies: filing of notices of determination or exemption."
description: "The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires, among other things, 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: "20232024"
identifier: "SB 69"
citation: "California SB 69 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["California Environmental Quality Act", "filing of notices of determination or exemption", "local agencies"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cortese"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 30
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2023-01-05"
last_action: "2023-10-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1a0df54c-f2d7-45e4-932a-f754059769c1"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB69"
source_hash: "8acc679afdcb96017e8ab3f081a7bbba7dd19998735c9f5355a8545f82e43fa6"
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 69 (20232024) — California Environmental Quality Act: local agencies: filing of notices of determination or exemption.

The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires, among other things, 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. **01/05/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB69&version=20230SB6999INT)
2. **03/16/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB69&version=20230SB6998AMD)
3. **05/18/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB69&version=20230SB6997AMD)
4. **06/22/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB69&version=20230SB6996AMD)
5. **07/12/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB69&version=20230SB6995AMD)
6. **10/13/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB69&version=20230SB6993CHP)
7. **SB69** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB69)
8. **09/11/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB69&version=20230SB6994ENR)

## Votes

- Unfinished Business SB69 Cortese et al. Concurrence — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **5–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 69 Cortese Senate Third Reading By Boerner — **73–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading SB69 Cortese et al. — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **5–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cortese — primary (person)
- Boerner — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-05** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-01-06** From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 5.
- **2023-01-18** Referred to Coms. on E.Q. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-10** Set for hearing March 15.
- **2023-03-15** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 352.) (March 15). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-16** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-21** Set for hearing April 11.
- **2023-04-12** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 685.) (April 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-14** Set for hearing April 24.
- **2023-04-24** April 24 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
- **2023-05-12** Set for hearing May 18.
- **2023-05-18** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 1159.) (May 18). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-18** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-05-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-05-30** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1358.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-05-31** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2023-06-15** Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-22** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-22** June 26 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2023-07-11** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 10). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-07-12** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-08-16** August 16 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
- **2023-09-01** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (September 1). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-09-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-09-06** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 2973.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-09-06** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2023-09-07** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2465.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-09-13** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2023-10-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2023-10-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 860, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1a0df54c-f2d7-45e4-932a-f754059769c1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).