--- type: "Bill" title: "California Environmental Quality Act: environmental leadership media campus projects: judicial streamlining." 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 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. CEQA establishes administrative procedures for the review and certification of the EIR for a project and judicial review procedures for any action or proceeding brought to challenge the lead agency's decision to certify the EIR or to grant project approvals." jurisdiction: "us/states/ca" legislature: "California Legislature" session: "20232024" identifier: "AB 3265" citation: "California AB 3265 (20232024)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: ["California Environmental Quality Act", "environmental leadership media campus projects", "judicial streamlining"] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Bryan"] version_count: 7 action_count: 27 vote_count: 10 first_action: "2024-02-16" last_action: "2024-09-14" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7e00dad5-992e-439c-80a4-7457923dd0d7" source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3265" source_hash: "5d06651ef7a7d23103541778b48fedc8fac2fd1fdd062bc47abf523e9c5a3128" 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 3265 (20232024) — California Environmental Quality Act: environmental leadership media campus projects: judicial streamlining. 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. CEQA establishes administrative procedures for the review and certification of the EIR for a project and judicial review procedures for any action or proceeding brought to challenge the lead agency's decision to certify the EIR or to grant project approvals. ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **02/16/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3265&version=20230AB326599INT) 2. **04/09/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3265&version=20230AB326598AMD) 3. **06/20/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3265&version=20230AB326597AMD) 4. **08/22/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3265&version=20230AB326596AMD) 5. **09/14/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3265&version=20230AB326594CHP) 6. **AB3265** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3265) 7. **08/31/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3265&version=20230AB326595ENR) ## Votes - AB 3265 Bryan Consent Calendar Second Day — **64–0** (pass) · lower - Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **14–0** (pass) · lower - 3rd Reading AB3265 Bryan By Durazo — **38–0** (pass) · upper - Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **6–0** (pass) · upper - Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **10–0** (pass) · upper - Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper - Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **11–0** (pass) · lower - Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper - Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **10–0** (pass) · lower - AB 3265 Bryan Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **75–0** (pass) · lower ## Sponsors - Bryan — primary (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2024-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1` - **2024-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 18. - **2024-03-11** Referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and JUD. `referral-committee` - **2024-04-09** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2` - **2024-04-10** Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee` - **2024-04-16** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 15). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee` - **2024-04-23** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee` - **2024-05-01** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 1). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable` - **2024-05-02** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2` - **2024-05-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 64. Noes 0. Page 5162.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3` - **2024-05-09** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1` - **2024-05-22** Referred to Coms. on E.Q. and JUD. `referral-committee` - **2024-06-19** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 19). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee` - **2024-06-20** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee` - **2024-07-03** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee` - **2024-08-05** In committee: Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee` - **2024-08-15** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 15). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable` - **2024-08-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2` - **2024-08-22** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3` - **2024-08-26** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2` - **2024-08-27** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3` - **2024-08-28** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. - **2024-08-28** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. - **2024-08-28** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable` - **2024-09-06** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m. - **2024-09-14** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature` - **2024-09-14** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 255, Statutes of 2024. `became-law` ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7e00dad5-992e-439c-80a4-7457923dd0d7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).