--- type: "Bill" title: "California Environmental Quality Act: Department of Housing and Community Development: vehicle miles traveled: study." 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: "20232024" identifier: "SB 768" citation: "California SB 768 (20232024)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: ["California Environmental Quality Act", "Department of Housing and Community Development", "study", "vehicle miles traveled"] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Caballero"] version_count: 9 action_count: 35 vote_count: 8 first_action: "2023-02-17" last_action: "2024-09-27" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4fd32eaa-bad5-4898-ba82-85c107d42f6f" source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB768" source_hash: "738a498979d85396c2b114954691ff483cf3b2f2fe712d1e59f284af1f8404bc" 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 768 (20232024) — California Environmental Quality Act: Department of Housing and Community Development: vehicle miles traveled: study. 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. **02/17/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB768&version=20230SB76899INT) 2. **01/11/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB768&version=20230SB76897AMD) 3. **03/22/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB768&version=20230SB76898AMD) 4. **05/29/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB768&version=20230SB76896AMD) 5. **08/19/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB768&version=20230SB76895AMD) 6. **08/22/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB768&version=20230SB76894AMD) 7. **09/27/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB768&version=20230SB76892CHP) 8. **SB768** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB768) 9. **08/29/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB768&version=20230SB76893ENR) ## Votes - Placed on suspense file — **6–0** (pass) · upper - 3rd Reading — **34–4** (pass) · upper - SB 768 Caballero Senate Third Reading By Wood — **72–0** (pass) · lower - Unfinished Business SB768 Caballero et al. Concurrence — **34–4** (pass) · upper - Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Housing] — **6–1** (pass) · upper - Do pass — **4–2** (pass) · upper - Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **10–0** (pass) · lower - Do pass as amended. — **11–2** (pass) · lower ## Sponsors - Caballero — primary (person) - Newman — coauthor (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2023-02-17** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1` - **2023-02-21** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 20. - **2023-03-01** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee` - **2023-03-22** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee` - **2023-03-29** Re-referred to Coms. on E.Q. and HOUSING. `referral-committee` - **2023-04-11** Set for hearing April 19. - **2023-04-18** April 19 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author. - **2024-01-05** Set for hearing January 10. - **2024-01-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HOUSING. (Ayes 6. Noes 1. Page 2970.) (January 10). Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee` - **2024-01-11** Withdrawn from committee. - **2024-01-11** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee` - **2024-01-11** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee` - **2024-01-12** Set for hearing January 16. - **2024-01-16** January 16 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file. - **2024-01-17** Set for hearing January 18. - **2024-01-18** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 2. Page 3012.) (January 18). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable` - **2024-01-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2` - **2024-01-29** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 34. Noes 4. Page 3052.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3` - **2024-01-29** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1` - **2024-04-29** Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee` - **2024-05-29** 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` - **2024-06-11** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee` - **2024-06-26** June 26 hearing postponed by committee. - **2024-07-02** July 2 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file. - **2024-08-15** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 2.) (August 15). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable` - **2024-08-19** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2` - **2024-08-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2` - **2024-08-22** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3` - **2024-08-22** Ordered to third reading. - **2024-08-26** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 6522.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3` - **2024-08-26** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending. - **2024-08-27** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 34. Noes 4. Page 5505.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable` - **2024-09-03** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m. - **2024-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature` - **2024-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 773, Statutes of 2024. `became-law` ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4fd32eaa-bad5-4898-ba82-85c107d42f6f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).