---
type: "Bill"
title: "California Environmental Quality Act: judicial streamlining: state of emergency: wildfire."
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: "SB 676"
citation: "California SB 676 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CaliforniaEnvironmentalQualityAct", "judicialstreamlining", "stateofemergency", "wildfire"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Limón"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 35
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2025-02-21"
last_action: "2025-10-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/25e85e5c-6a6b-4104-b4f7-2f645d380cd4"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB676"
source_hash: "251ad6a47a2832c6f2b1dd21f9d104ba2387b8fc290891127872aef30c7b15c4"
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 676 (20252026) — California Environmental Quality Act: judicial streamlining: state of emergency: wildfire.

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. **02/21/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB676&version=20250SB67699INT)
2. **03/24/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB676&version=20250SB67698AMD)
3. **07/09/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB676&version=20250SB67697AMD)
4. **09/02/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB676&version=20250SB67696AMD)
5. **10/10/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB676&version=20250SB67694CHP)
6. **SB676** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB676)
7. **09/12/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB676&version=20250SB67695ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Rules] — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB676 Limón et al. Concurrence — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 676 Limón Senate Third Reading By Bennett — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading SB676 Limón et al. — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **13–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Limón — primary (person)
- Archuleta — coauthor (person)
- Blakespear — author (person)
- Bryan — coauthor (person)
- Caballero — coauthor (person)
- Cervantes — principal coauthor (person)
- Cortese — principal coauthor (person)
- Grayson — coauthor (person)
- Macedo — coauthor (person)
- Pacheco — coauthor (person)
- Pérez — coauthor (person)
- Reyes — coauthor (person)
- Richardson — principal coauthor (person)
- Sanchez — coauthor (person)
- Stern — principal coauthor (person)
- Umberg — coauthor (person)
- Zbur — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-21** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
- **2025-02-24** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
- **2025-02-24** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2025-03-05** Referred to Com. on E.Q. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-11** Set for hearing April 2.
- **2025-03-24** 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`
- **2025-04-03** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on RLS. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 635.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-10** Set for hearing April 22.
- **2025-04-23** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0. Page 836.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-25** Set for hearing May 5.
- **2025-05-05** May 5 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2025-05-16** Set for hearing May 23.
- **2025-05-23** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1209.) (May 23). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-05-27** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2025-05-29** From special consent calendar on motion of Senator Gonzalez.
- **2025-05-29** Ordered to third reading.
- **2025-06-03** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1453.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-06-04** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2025-06-09** Referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2025-07-08** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (July 7). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-07-09** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-16** Coauthors revised.
- **2025-07-16** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (July 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-08-20** August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2025-08-29** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (August 29). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-09-02** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-09-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-09-08** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3008.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-09-08** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2025-09-09** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2717.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-09-17** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2025-10-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-10-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 550, 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/25e85e5c-6a6b-4104-b4f7-2f645d380cd4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).