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Bill	Environment: CEQA exemption: roadway improvement.	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.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 890	California AB 890 (20112012)	bill	Environment: CEQA exemption: roadway improvement.	enacted	Olsen	9	34	8	2011-02-17	2012-09-25	openstates	ocd-bill/4a75db4c-5042-4808-84be-fc6e3ce712c1	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB890	58bfdce9d176d2d5b8821f6f935b4134d50ced0333c1188837a6306a46743003	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 890 (20112012) — Environment: CEQA exemption: roadway improvement.

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. 02/17/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/04/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 01/13/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 03/29/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/07/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/24/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/25/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB890 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/11/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 890 OLSEN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB890 Olsen By Berryhill — 33–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 13–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 6–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 3–0 (fail) · lower
• Set first hearing. Failed passage. Reconsideration granted. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 890 OLSEN Assembly Third Reading — 54–9 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Olsen — primary (person)
• Berryhill — coauthor (person)
• Garrick — coauthor (person)
• Gorell — coauthor (person)
• Grove — coauthor (person)
• Harkey — coauthor (person)
• Harman — coauthor (person)
• Perea — author (person)
• Rubio — coauthor (person)
• Runner — coauthor (person)
• Silva — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2011-02-18 From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
• 2011-02-22 Measure version as introduced on February 17 corrected.
• 2011-03-14 Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2011-03-29 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
• 2011-03-30 Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2011-05-02 In committee: Set first hearing. Failed passage. Reconsideration granted.
• 2012-01-04 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
• 2012-01-04 Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2012-01-12 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (January 9). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-01-13 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-01-17 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2012-01-19 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 3.) (January 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-01-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-01-26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 54. Noes 9. Page 3595.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-01-26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-02-16 Referred to Com. on E.Q. referral-committee
• 2012-08-06 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (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
• 2012-08-16 Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Simitian.
• 2012-08-24 From inactive file.
• 2012-08-24 Ordered to second reading.
• 2012-08-24 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 2. Page 4943.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-29 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 31 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-08-30 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6605.)
• 2012-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 6625.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12:15 p.m.
• 2012-09-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-25 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 528, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4a75db4c-5042-4808-84be-fc6e3ce712c1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).