---
type: "Bill"
title: "California Environmental Quality Act: infrastructure projects: County of San Diego."
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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "SB 1342"
citation: "California SB 1342 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["California Environmental Quality Act", "County of San Diego", "infrastructure projects"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Atkins"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 25
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-02-16"
last_action: "2024-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d9eea3ce-b93e-4508-8e1b-9d23a584797d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1342"
source_hash: "ccf48edc07ea9035ce1049135eee9601ea0c8ae31414f4345f3b6e9dde9ad6a1"
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 1342 (20232024) — California Environmental Quality Act: infrastructure projects: County of San Diego.

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. **02/16/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1342&version=20230SB134299INT)
2. **04/08/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1342&version=20230SB134298AMD)
3. **08/22/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1342&version=20230SB134297AMD)
4. **09/27/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1342&version=20230SB134295CHP)
5. **SB1342** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1342)
6. **08/30/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1342&version=20230SB134296ENR)

## Votes

- Unfinished Business SB1342 Atkins et al. Concurrence — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading SB1342 Atkins et al. — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 1342 Atkins Senate Third Reading By Alvarez — **77–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Atkins — primary (person)
- Alvarez — coauthor (person)
- Blakespear — coauthor (person)
- Padilla — coauthor (person)
- Waldron — coauthor (person)
- Ward — coauthor (person)
- Weber — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-16** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-20** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
- **2024-02-29** Referred to Com. on E.Q. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-12** Set for hearing April 17.
- **2024-04-08** 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`
- **2024-04-17** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3661.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-22** Set for hearing April 29.
- **2024-04-29** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2024-04-30** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-05-20** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4016.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-05-21** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2024-05-28** Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-18** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-08-07** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (August 7). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-08-08** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-12** From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Aguiar-Curry.
- **2024-08-12** Ordered to third reading.
- **2024-08-22** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-22** Ordered to third reading.
- **2024-08-27** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6655.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-28** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2024-08-28** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5590.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-09-04** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2024-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 794, 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/d9eea3ce-b93e-4508-8e1b-9d23a584797d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).