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Bill	Environmental quality: California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: bicycle lanes.	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.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 2245	California AB 2245 (20112012)	bill	Environmental quality: California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: bicycle lanes.	enacted	Smyth	7	27	5	2012-02-24	2012-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/8b433529-71ad-4cbd-9761-5e5600182afe	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2245	f9b78344de452c0317193b93f99b84eb7da13dd9c224a28a959111a18d8e3334	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2245 (20112012) — Environmental quality: California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: bicycle lanes.

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. 02/24/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/15/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/15/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/07/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/28/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB2245 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/29/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB2245 Smyth By Rubio — 36–1 (pass) · upper
• AB 2245 SMYTH Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2245 SMYTH Assembly Third Reading — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 8–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Smyth — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-24 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2012-02-26 From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
• 2012-02-27 Read first time. reading-1
• 2012-03-15 Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2012-03-15 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-03-19 Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2012-04-16 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2012-05-14 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (May 7). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-15 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-05-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-21 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 4919.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-05-21 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-05-31 Referred to Com. on E.Q. referral-committee
• 2012-08-06 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 2). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-07 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-08 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5. referral-committee
• 2012-08-13 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2012-08-14 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-15 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2012-08-20 From consent calendar.
• 2012-08-20 Ordered to third reading.
• 2012-08-21 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 1. Page 4637.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-22 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-08-24 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 6245.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-31 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2012-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 680, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8b433529-71ad-4cbd-9761-5e5600182afe. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).