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Bill	Transportation.	(1) The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify 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. Existing law exempts certain activities from CEQA, including a project for the institution or increase of passenger or commuter services on rail or highway rights-of-way already in use, including modernization of existing stations and parking facilities.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	SB 788	California SB 788 (20132014)	bill	Transportation.	enacted	Committee on Transportation and Housing	7	26	7	2013-02-22	2013-10-03	openstates	ocd-bill/7a8d132f-4e3d-492f-894e-e9e8e0c93cf6	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB788	d0b4beafd3668d191c0f450b1582956efcbc2d91ab074532c0663c13e73e26cc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 788 (20132014) — Transportation.

(1) The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify 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. Existing law exempts certain activities from CEQA, including a project for the institution or increase of passenger or commuter services on rail or highway rights-of-way already in use, including modernization of existing stations and parking facilities.

Version chain

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

1. 02/22/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/18/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/10/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/14/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/03/13 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB788 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/12/13 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Consent Calendar 2nd SB788 Committee on T. & H. — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Natural Resources to Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB788 Committee on T. & H. — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 788 T. & H. Senate Third Reading By LOWENTHAL — 77–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Committee on Transportation and Housing — 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 T. & H. referral-committee
• 2013-03-19 Set for hearing April 30.
• 2013-04-18 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on T. & H. committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-05-01 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 760.) (April 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-05-03 Set for hearing May 13.
• 2013-05-13 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage
• 2013-05-14 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-05-16 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 948.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-05-16 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2013-06-06 Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2013-06-10 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-06-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-08-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (August 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-08-14 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-08-21 Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2013-08-30 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-09-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-09-09 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 1. Page 3008.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-09-09 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2013-09-10 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2294.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-18 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
• 2013-10-03 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2013-10-03 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 523, Statutes of 2013.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7a8d132f-4e3d-492f-894e-e9e8e0c93cf6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).