---
type: "Bill"
title: "California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: Gypsum Canyon Veterans Cemetery."
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: "20252026"
identifier: "AB 571"
citation: "California AB 571 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CaliforniaEnvironmentalQualityAct", "GypsumCanyonVeteransCemetery", "exemption"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Quirk-Silva"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 24
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2025-02-12"
last_action: "2025-10-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f4ec7c6e-5597-41fa-ae4e-39eb0b5cc363"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB571"
source_hash: "2d425da1f800bbcec76b6ac626272edaa97cae044dc891d883d0a85ae800fa5e"
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 571 (20252026) — California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: Gypsum Canyon Veterans Cemetery.

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. **02/12/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB571&version=20250AB57199INT)
2. **04/10/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB571&version=20250AB57198AMD)
3. **06/19/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB571&version=20250AB57197AMD)
4. **10/01/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB571&version=20250AB57195CHP)
5. **AB571** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB571)
6. **09/05/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB571&version=20250AB57196ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Military and Veterans Affairs] — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB571 Quirk-Silva et al. By Archuleta Urgency Clause — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Military and Veterans Affairs] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 571 Quirk-Silva Third Reading Urgency — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 571 Quirk-Silva Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **8–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Quirk-Silva — primary (person)
- Archuleta — coauthor (person)
- Chen — coauthor (person)
- Choi — coauthor (person)
- Davies — coauthor (person)
- Dixon — coauthor (person)
- Grove — coauthor (person)
- Michelle Rodriguez — coauthor (person)
- Pacheco — coauthor (person)
- Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
- Sanchez — coauthor (person)
- Ta — coauthor (person)
- Umberg — coauthor (person)
- Valencia — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-12** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2025-02-13** From printer. May be heard in committee March 15.
- **2025-03-03** Referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and M. & V.A. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on M. & V.A. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 7). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-10** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-04-21** Re-referred to Com. on M. & V.A. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-30** Coauthors revised.
- **2025-04-30** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-07** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 7). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-05-19** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1595.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-05-20** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-28** Referred to Coms. on E.Q. and M. & V.A. `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-18** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on M. & V.A. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 18). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-19** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on M. & V.A. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-15** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-08-19** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2025-08-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-09-02** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2393.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-09-02** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2025-09-03** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2858.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-09-09** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2025-10-01** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-10-01** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 158, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f4ec7c6e-5597-41fa-ae4e-39eb0b5cc363`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).