republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20092010-special-session-2/ab-8.md

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Bill	State government.	(1) The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency 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 generally 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 also provides some exemptions from its requirements for specified projects.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010 Special Session 2	AB 8	California AB 8 (20092010 Special Session 2)	bill	State government.	enacted	Nestande	5	19	3	2009-02-11	2009-02-20	openstates	ocd-bill/c9750194-ef6c-4fa3-aa29-f74e329f74cc	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920102AB8	19a7f9840d3904501a07e5bfe8dc02fbf1178893e987ee285de834c435586fe9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 8 (20092010 Special Session 2) — State government.

(1) The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency 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 generally 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 also provides some exemptions from its requirements for specified projects.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. 02/11/09 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 02/14/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 02/20/09 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB8 (committee substitute) — source
5. 02/19/09 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Assembly 3rd Supp 1 AB8 Nestande By Cogdill — pass (pass) · upper
• W/O REF. TO FILE AB8 Evans — pass (pass) · upper
• AB8 NESTANDE Assembly Third Reading Second Extraordinary Session — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Nestande — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2009-02-11 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2009-02-12 From printer.
• 2009-02-14 Art. IV, Sec. 8(b) of the Constitution suspended. (Ayes 67. Noes 1. Page 43.)
• 2009-02-14 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-02-14 Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. (Page 47.). reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-02-14 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 48. Noes 28. Page 48.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-02-14 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2009-02-14 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2009-02-14 Withdrawn from committee. Ordered placed on second reading file.
• 2009-02-14 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-02-15 Unanimous consent granted to take up without reference to file.
• 2009-02-15 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 24. Noes 11. Page 39.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-02-15 Motion to reconsider made by Senator Florez.
• 2009-02-15 Reconsideration granted. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 39.)
• 2009-02-19 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 26. Noes 10. Page 45.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-02-19 In Assembly. To enrollment.
• 2009-02-19 Enrolled and to the Governor at 11 a.m.
• 2009-02-20 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2009-02-20 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 6, Statutes of 2009-10 Second Extraordinary Session.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c9750194-ef6c-4fa3-aa29-f74e329f74cc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).