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Bill	Environmental quality.	(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 (EIR) on a project, as defined, that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment, as defined, or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	SB 226	California SB 226 (20112012)	bill	Environmental quality.	enacted	Simitian	10	38	10	2011-02-09	2011-10-04	openstates	ocd-bill/e7712d4d-c84e-4426-ad55-7b1820cd341b	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB226	31cae74aae012d05981a1e8a3ef1f92411775d44aeb61ac4a849ead9e941b540	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 226 (20112012) — Environmental quality.

(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 (EIR) on a project, as defined, that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment, as defined, or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect.

Version chain

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

1. 02/09/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 07/14/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/17/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/23/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/01/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/06/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/09/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 10/04/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. SB226 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/14/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Consent Calendar 2nd — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations to Consent Calendar. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 226 Simitian Senate Third Reading By FEUER — 59–12 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Local Government to Consent Calendar. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Agriculture. — 6–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Supp 2 — 22–11 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 5–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Simitian — primary (person)
• Perea — coauthor (person)
• Rubio — coauthor (person)
• Solorio — coauthor (person)
• Vargas — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-09 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2011-02-10 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 12.
• 2011-02-17 Referred to Com. on E.Q. referral-committee
• 2011-03-10 Set for hearing March 21.
• 2011-03-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 414.) (March 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-04-01 Set for hearing April 11.
• 2011-04-11 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage
• 2011-04-12 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-04-14 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 654.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-04-14 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2011-04-28 Referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2011-06-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 13). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-06-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-07-06 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (July 6). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-07-07 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-07-11 From consent calendar.
• 2011-07-11 Ordered to third reading.
• 2011-07-14 Read third time and amended. (Page 2348.) reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-07-14 Ordered to third reading.
• 2011-07-14 Re-referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and AGRI. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2011-08-17 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-08-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on AGRI. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (August 22). Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-08-23 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-08-25 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 25). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-08-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-08-29 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2011-09-01 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-09-06 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-09-08 Joint Rule 62(a) file notice suspended. (Page 3036.)
• 2011-09-08 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (September 8). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-09-09 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-09 Consent granted to take up without reference to file.
• 2011-09-09 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 59. Noes 12. Page 3222.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-09-09 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2011-09-09 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 22. Noes 11. Page 2478.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-16 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2011-10-04 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-10-04 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 469, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e7712d4d-c84e-4426-ad55-7b1820cd341b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).