---
type: "Bill"
title: "California Environmental Quality Act: public higher education: campus population."
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 the lead agency 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: "20212022"
identifier: "SB 118"
citation: "California SB 118 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["California Environmental Quality Act: public higher education: campus population."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-01-08"
last_action: "2022-03-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/30cad234-de5d-4cf9-94a8-8045111b52fb"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB118"
source_hash: "0359c5b9e8aae0ea206af29882e5c6a2e73b50acef03f82c06661247446c31c1"
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 118 (20212022) — California Environmental Quality Act: public higher education: campus population.

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 the lead agency 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. **01/08/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB118&version=20210SB11899INT)
2. **03/11/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB118&version=20210SB11898AMD)
3. **03/14/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB118&version=20210SB11896CHP)
4. **SB118** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB118)
5. **03/14/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB118&version=20210SB11897ENR)

## Votes

- SB 118 B. & F. R. Senate Third Reading By TING — **70–0** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB118 B. & F.R. (Skinner) Concurrence — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading SB118 — **29–8** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-08** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
- **2021-01-11** From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 10.
- **2021-01-11** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2021-01-28** Referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-16** Withdrawn from committee. (Ayes 26. Noes 5. Page 201.)
- **2021-02-16** Ordered to second reading.
- **2021-02-17** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-02-22** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 8. Page 274.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-02-22** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2021-02-25** Referred to Com. on BUDGET. `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-25** (Corrected May 14).
- **2022-03-11** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-03-14** Assembly Rule 96 and 63 suspended. (Ayes 50. Noes 15. Page 3812.)
- **2022-03-14** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2022-03-14** Ordered to third reading.
- **2022-03-14** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 3815.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-03-14** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2022-03-14** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 3091.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-14** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2022-03-14** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-03-14** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 10, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/30cad234-de5d-4cf9-94a8-8045111b52fb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).