---
type: "Bill"
title: "California Environmental Quality Act: exemption for closure of railroad grade crossing."
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 1824"
citation: "California AB 1824 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["California Environmental Quality Act: exemption for closure of railroad grade crossing."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Natural Resources"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 30
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2019-03-12"
last_action: "2019-10-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5c02ae88-ce32-4069-a39d-7dacd3f7327b"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1824"
source_hash: "fcc0cdbb6d8e2fc11c94566b105a1f47b406d376aab13ffe816aaf5e020fd08e"
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 1824 (20192020) — California Environmental Quality Act: exemption for closure of railroad grade crossing.

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. **03/12/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1824&version=20190AB182499INT)
2. **09/03/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1824&version=20190AB182498AMD)
3. **10/02/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1824&version=20190AB182496CHP)
4. **AB1824** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1824)
5. **09/16/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1824&version=20190AB182497ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Accountability and Administrative Review] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1824 NAT. RES. (Friedman) By Allen — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1824 NAT. RES. Consent Calendar Second Day — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1824 NAT. RES. Concurrence in Senate Amendments By FRIEDMAN — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Committee on Natural Resources — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-12** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2019-03-13** From printer. May be heard in committee April 12.
- **2019-03-28** Referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and A. & A.R. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-11** Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Page 1150.)
- **2019-04-11** (pending re-referral to Com. on A. & A.R.)
- **2019-04-23** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on A. & A.R. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on A. & A.R. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-24** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-05-13** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 1609.)
- **2019-05-15** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 15). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-05-16** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1830.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-05-29** Referred to Com. on EQ. `referral-committee`
- **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`
- **2019-06-27** From Consent Calendar.
- **2019-06-27** Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Allen.
- **2019-08-30** From inactive file.
- **2019-08-30** Ordered to second reading.
- **2019-09-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-09-03** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-04** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-09-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2702.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-09** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 11 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2019-09-10** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 3252.)
- **2019-09-10** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3280.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-09-23** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2019-10-02** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-10-02** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 466, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5c02ae88-ce32-4069-a39d-7dacd3f7327b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).