California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: residential infill projects.
(1) The California Environmental Quality Act, commonly referred to as 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.
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SB 674
California SB 674 (20132014)
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California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: residential infill projects.
California SB 674 (20132014) — California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: residential infill projects.
(1) The California Environmental Quality Act, commonly referred to as 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.
Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
3rd Reading — 33–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Local Government. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
SB 674 Corbett Consent Calendar Second Day — 78–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
Corbett — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2013-02-22 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
2013-02-23 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 25.
2013-02-25 Read first time. reading-1
2013-03-11 Referred to Com. on E., U., & C. referral-committee
2014-01-06 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E., U., & C. committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
2014-01-06 Withdrawn from committee.
2014-01-06 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
2014-01-09 Re-referred to Com. on E.Q. referral-committee
2014-01-10 Set for hearing January 15.
2014-01-16 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 2615.) (January 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
2014-01-17 Set for hearing January 21.
2014-01-21 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
2014-01-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2014-01-23 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 2637.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
2014-01-23 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2014-05-08 Referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and L. GOV. referral-committee
2014-06-12 Assembly Rule 56 (pending re-referral to L. Gov.) suspended. (Page 5488.)
2014-06-17 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 16). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
2014-06-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
2014-08-07 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 6). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2014-08-11 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
2014-08-14 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6017.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
2014-08-14 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
2014-08-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
2014-09-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2014-09-25 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 549, Statutes of 2014.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/033994ec-a4c3-4247-acf2-1fcef969ba70. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).