---
type: "Bill"
title: "California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: public universities: university housing development 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 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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "SB 886"
citation: "California SB 886 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: public universities: university housing development projects."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wiener"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 36
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2022-01-27"
last_action: "2022-09-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/759f5eea-feda-41d5-9951-5f9adfa76339"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB886"
source_hash: "2a82761f8802064bc15e588553391e0a63dda6c54c685dd89b95c7b9982c762b"
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 886 (20212022) — California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: public universities: university housing development 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 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.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **01/27/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB886&version=20210SB88699INT)
2. **02/22/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB886&version=20210SB88698AMD)
3. **03/21/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB886&version=20210SB88697AMD)
4. **05/02/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB886&version=20210SB88696AMD)
5. **05/19/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB886&version=20210SB88695AMD)
6. **06/16/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB886&version=20210SB88694AMD)
7. **08/18/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB886&version=20210SB88693AMD)
8. **09/28/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB886&version=20210SB88691CHP)
9. **SB886** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB886)
10. **08/26/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB886&version=20210SB88692ENR)

## Votes

- Unfinished Business SB886 Wiener et al. Concurrence — **37–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading SB886 Wiener et al. — **33–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 886 Wiener Senate Third Reading By Robert Rivas — **70–2** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Wiener — primary (person)
- Archuleta — coauthor (person)
- Becker — coauthor (person)
- Hueso — coauthor (person)
- Medina — coauthor (person)
- Mullin — coauthor (person)
- Robert Rivas — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-27** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-01-28** From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 27.
- **2022-02-07** Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
- **2022-02-07** (Ayes 31. Noes 6.)
- **2022-02-07** Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 31. Noes 6. Page 2880.)
- **2022-02-09** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-22** 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`
- **2022-03-02** Re-referred to Com. on E.Q. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-21** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.Q. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-03-31** Set for hearing April 25.
- **2022-04-13** April 25 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2022-04-14** Set for hearing April 27.
- **2022-04-28** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 3540.) (April 27). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-05-02** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-05-06** Set for hearing May 16.
- **2022-05-16** May 16 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
- **2022-05-17** Set for hearing May 19.
- **2022-05-19** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 3773.) (May 19). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-05-19** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-24** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 33. Noes 1. Page 3881.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-05-25** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2022-05-27** Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-15** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (June 13). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-16** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-29** June 29 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
- **2022-08-11** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (August 11). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-08-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-18** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-18** Ordered to third reading.
- **2022-08-22** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 70. Noes 2. Page 6009.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-22** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2022-08-24** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 1. Page 5081.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-08-30** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2022-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 663, 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/759f5eea-feda-41d5-9951-5f9adfa76339`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).