California Environmental Quality Act: 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 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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AB 323
California AB 323 (20152016)
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California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: roadway improvement.
California AB 323 (20152016) — California Environmental Quality Act: 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 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. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Transportation] — 9–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
AB 323 OLSEN Consent Calendar Second Day — 79–0 (pass) · lower
Consent Calendar 2nd — 37–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
Olsen — primary (person)
Achadjian — coauthor (person)
Baker — coauthor (person)
Bates — coauthor (person)
Bigelow — coauthor (person)
Chávez — coauthor (person)
Galgiani — coauthor (person)
Gallagher — coauthor (person)
Grove — coauthor (person)
Huff — coauthor (person)
Lackey — coauthor (person)
Linder — coauthor (person)
Maienschein — coauthor (person)
Mayes — coauthor (person)
Obernolte — coauthor (person)
Perea — coauthor (person)
Travis Allen — coauthor (person)
Vidak — coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2015-02-13 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2015-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
2015-02-23 Referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and TRANS. referral-committee
2015-03-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (March 23). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
2015-04-06 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
2015-04-07 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
2015-04-21 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 20). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2015-04-22 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
2015-04-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1145.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
2015-04-27 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2015-05-07 Referred to Com. on E.Q. referral-committee
2015-06-17 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 17). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2015-06-18 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
2015-06-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1548.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
2015-06-23 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
2015-06-26 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
2015-07-06 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2015-07-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 52, Statutes of 2015.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9cbda3ea-60f0-4f65-a48d-3b5eb4bffbb4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).