--- type: "Bill" title: "California Environmental Quality Act: supportive and transitional housing: motel conversion: environmental leadership transit projects." 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." jurisdiction: "us/states/ca" legislature: "California Legislature" session: "20232024" identifier: "SB 91" citation: "California SB 91 (20232024)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: ["California Environmental Quality Act", "environmental leadership transit projects", "motel conversion", "supportive and transitional housing"] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Umberg"] version_count: 5 action_count: 29 vote_count: 9 first_action: "2023-01-17" last_action: "2023-10-10" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/df28a4b1-bbc8-4029-811f-23cd9a38be1a" source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB91" source_hash: "6749cbd4e3de3383b8b4be1ec30114c1b4f90df0dd87fde10ae2cc9efefe14a6" 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 91 (20232024) — California Environmental Quality Act: supportive and transitional housing: motel conversion: environmental leadership transit projects. 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. ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **01/17/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB91&version=20230SB9199INT) 2. **09/08/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB91&version=20230SB9198AMD) 3. **10/10/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB91&version=20230SB9196CHP) 4. **SB91** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB91) 5. **09/15/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB91&version=20230SB9197ENR) ## Votes - Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **15–0** (pass) · lower - Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **10–0** (pass) · upper - Unfinished Business SB91 Umberg Concurrence — **39–0** (pass) · upper - Consent Calendar — **37–0** (pass) · upper - Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Housing] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper - Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Housing and Community Development] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **10–0** (pass) · lower - Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **8–0** (pass) · lower - SB 91 Umberg Senate Third Reading By Lowenthal — **77–0** (pass) · lower - SB 91 Umberg Senate Third Reading By Lowenthal — **76–0** (pass) · lower ## Sponsors - Umberg — primary (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2023-01-17** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1` - **2023-01-18** From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 17. - **2023-01-25** Referred to Coms. on E.Q. and HOUSING. `referral-committee` - **2023-02-10** Set for hearing March 15. - **2023-03-15** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HOUSING with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 353.) (March 15). Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee` - **2023-03-30** Set for hearing April 18. - **2023-04-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 796.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee` - **2023-04-21** Set for hearing May 1. - **2023-05-01** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2` - **2023-05-02** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2` - **2023-05-04** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1003.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3` - **2023-05-04** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1` - **2023-05-11** Referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and H. & C.D. `referral-committee` - **2023-06-13** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 12). Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee` - **2023-06-29** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee` - **2023-07-12** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (July 12). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable` - **2023-07-13** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2` - **2023-08-14** From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Boerner. - **2023-08-14** Ordered to third reading. - **2023-09-05** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2927.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3` - **2023-09-05** Action rescinded whereby bill was read third time, passed, and ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-3` - **2023-09-08** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3` - **2023-09-08** Ordered to third reading. - **2023-09-12** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3252.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3` - **2023-09-12** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending. - **2023-09-13** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2736.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable` - **2023-09-20** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m. - **2023-10-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature` - **2023-10-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 732, 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/df28a4b1-bbc8-4029-811f-23cd9a38be1a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).