---
type: "Bill"
title: "California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: Los Angeles Regional Interoperable Communications System."
description: "(1) 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 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: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 1486"
citation: "California AB 1486 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: Los Angeles Regional Interoperable Communications System."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lara"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 33
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2012-01-10"
last_action: "2012-09-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/97653757-a266-4dd2-a4a9-18542cfadf46"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1486"
source_hash: "42e7615d7b61a796202b2d277c6bc7ca2c276105c1808212851b09ff5a7f7d59"
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 1486 (20112012) — California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: Los Angeles Regional Interoperable Communications System.

(1) 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 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. **01/10/12 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1486&version=20110AB148699INT)
2. **08/24/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1486&version=20110AB148698AMD)
3. **09/28/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1486&version=20110AB148696CHP)
4. **AB1486** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1486)
5. **09/11/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1486&version=20110AB148697ENR)

## Votes

- From Committee: That the measure be returned to the Senate floor for consideration. — **5–1** (pass) · upper
- amendments be concurred in. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1486 BUDGET Assembly Third Reading By BLUMENFIELD — **47–23** (pass) · lower
- AB 1486 LARA Concurrence in Senate Amendments Urgency Added — **62–3** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1486 Lara By Wright Urgency Clause — **33–5** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Lara — primary (person)
- Bradford — coauthor (person)
- Davis — coauthor (person)
- Gaines — coauthor (person)
- Huff — principal coauthor (person)
- Liu — coauthor (person)
- Mitchell — coauthor (person)
- Price — coauthor (person)
- Runner — coauthor (person)
- Smyth — coauthor (person)
- Strickland — coauthor (person)
- Wright — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2012-01-10** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2012-01-11** From printer. May be heard in committee February 10.
- **2012-02-09** Referred to Com. on BUDGET. `referral-committee`
- **2012-03-19** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 46. Noes 24. Page 4011.)
- **2012-03-19** Assembly Rule 96 suspended. (Ayes 46. Noes 24. Page 4011.)
- **2012-03-19** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2012-03-19** Ordered to second reading.
- **2012-03-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-03-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 47. Noes 23. Page 4093.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-03-22** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2012-04-19** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2012-06-07** Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `referral-committee`
- **2012-08-16** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2012-08-16** Ordered to second reading.
- **2012-08-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-08-24** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-08-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-08-27** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(c). `referral-committee`
- **2012-08-29** Joint Rules 33.1 and 61(b)(15) suspended. (Page 4938.)
- **2012-08-29** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice waived. (Page 4938.)
- **2012-08-29** Re-referred to Com. on E.Q. `referral-committee`
- **2012-08-30** From committee: Return to Senate floor for consideration. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (August 30). `committee-passage`
- **2012-08-30** Ordered to third reading.
- **2012-08-31** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 5. Page 5058.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-08-31** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2012-08-31** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. `referral-committee`
- **2012-08-31** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 6762.)
- **2012-08-31** From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 31). `committee-passage`
- **2012-08-31** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 6772.)
- **2012-08-31** Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 62. Noes 3. Page 6782.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2012-09-13** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2012-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2012-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 690, Statutes of 2012.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/97653757-a266-4dd2-a4a9-18542cfadf46`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).