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Bill	Jobs and Economic Improvement Through Environmental Leadership Act of 2011.	(1) 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 900	California AB 900 (20112012)	bill	Jobs and Economic Improvement Through Environmental Leadership Act of 2011.	enacted	Buchanan	8	43	10	2011-02-17	2011-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/26508489-0db1-4dec-bb24-688efc6ea445	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB900	c350d9daf2ad66aa37df4b23b925351df41fd583397078573b2a70e820fd45c4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 900 (20112012) — Jobs and Economic Improvement Through Environmental Leadership Act of 2011.

(1) 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. 04/26/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/10/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/08/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/09/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/27/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB900 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/19/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• W/O REF. TO FILE AB900 Buchanan By Steinberg Reconsider — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 6–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• AB 900 SWANSON Assembly Third Reading — 53–26 (pass) · lower
• W/O REF. TO FILE AB900 Buchanan By Steinberg — 33–6 (pass) · upper
• W/O REF. TO FILE AB900 Buchanan By Steinberg Urgency Clause — 32–7 (pass) · upper
• AB 900 BUCHANAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 58–15 (pass) · lower
• W/O REF. TO FILE AB900 Buchanan By Steinberg — 35–4 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. — 7–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 12–5 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Buchanan — primary (person)
• Block — coauthor (person)
• Calderon — coauthor (person)
• Gordon — author (person)
• Lieu — coauthor (person)
• Pan — coauthor (person)
• Rubio — coauthor (person)
• Steinberg — principal 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.
• 2011-03-14 Referred to Coms. on ED. and NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2011-04-25 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. (Ayes 7. Noes 3.) (April 13). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-04-26 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-04-27 Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2011-05-09 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (May 2). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-10 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-05-11 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2011-05-27 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2011-05-27 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 27). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-05-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 53. Noes 26. Page 1656.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-05-31 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2011-06-08 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2011-09-08 Senate Rule 29.3(b) suspended. (Ayes 22. Noes 11. Page 2408.)
• 2011-09-08 Pursuant to Joint Rules 33.1,
• 2011-09-08 Joint Rule 61(a)(12) suspended. (Page 2420.)
• 2011-09-08 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 2420.)
• 2011-09-08 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-09-08 Re-referred to Com. on E.Q. referral-committee
• 2011-09-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (September 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-09-09 Pursuant to Joint Rule 33.1,
• 2011-09-09 Joint Rule 10.5 suspended. (Page 2438.)
• 2011-09-09 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2011-09-09 Ordered to third reading.
• 2011-09-09 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 7. Page 2442.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-09-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2011-09-09 Ordered to the Senate.
• 2011-09-09 In Senate. Held at Desk.
• 2011-09-09 Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time and passed. reading-3, passage
• 2011-09-09 Motion to take up the bill without reference to file by unanimous consent. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2466.)
• 2011-09-09 Read third time and amended. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 4. Page 2466.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-09-09 Motion to reconsider made by Senator Steinberg.
• 2011-09-09 (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2467.)
• 2011-09-09 Reconsideration of favorable vote granted.
• 2011-09-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 6. Page 2467.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-09-09 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 58. Noes 15. Page 3217.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-09 Measure version as amended on September 9 corrected. amendment-passage
• 2011-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2011-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 354, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/26508489-0db1-4dec-bb24-688efc6ea445. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).