---
type: "Bill"
title: "California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: public access: nonmotorized recreation."
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 1139"
citation: "California AB 1139 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CaliforniaEnvironmentalQualityAct", "exemption", "nonmotorizedrecreation", "publicaccess"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rogers"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 24
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2025-02-20"
last_action: "2025-10-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4c816bf3-ae19-423e-9835-249553380eba"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1139"
source_hash: "41c51e103d0628627a44a88f4830a29df9a6b06a0fefd5f56ddf3945c33f031b"
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 1139 (20252026) — California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: public access: nonmotorized recreation.

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. **02/20/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1139&version=20250AB113999INT)
2. **04/09/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1139&version=20250AB113998AMD)
3. **07/07/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1139&version=20250AB113997AMD)
4. **10/06/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1139&version=20250AB113995CHP)
5. **AB1139** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1139)
6. **09/02/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1139&version=20250AB113996ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Natural Resources and Water] — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Water, Parks, and Wildlife] — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1139 Rogers Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1139 Rogers Assembly Third Reading — **70–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **12–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rogers — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-20** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2025-02-21** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- **2025-03-10** Referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and W. P., & W. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on W. P., & W. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 7). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-04-10** Re-referred to Com. on W. P., & W. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-30** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-14** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 14). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-05-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 1656.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-05-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2025-06-04** Referred to Coms. on E.Q. and N.R. & W. `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-18** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2025-07-03** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on N.R. & W. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 2). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-07** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-16** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-08-19** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2025-08-20** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-08-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2251.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-08-26** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2025-08-28** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2763.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-09-04** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2025-10-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-10-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 391, 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/4c816bf3-ae19-423e-9835-249553380eba`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).