California Environmental Quality Act: record of proceedings.
(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. CEQA establishes a procedure for the preparation and certification of the record of proceedings upon the filing of an action or proceeding challenging a lead agency's action on the grounds of noncompliance with CEQA.
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SB 122
California SB 122 (20152016)
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California Environmental Quality Act: record of proceedings.
California SB 122 (20152016) — California Environmental Quality Act: record of proceedings.
(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. CEQA establishes a procedure for the preparation and certification of the record of proceedings upon the filing of an action or proceeding challenging a lead agency's action on the grounds of noncompliance with CEQA.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–1 (pass) · lower
Unfinished Business SB122 Jackson Concurrence — 25–14 (pass) · upper
Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
Do pass as amended. — 11–3 (pass) · lower
Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–1 (pass) · upper
3rd Reading — 24–15 (pass) · upper
SB 122 Jackson Senate Third Reading By THURMOND — 55–18 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
Jackson — primary (person)
Hertzberg — coauthor (person)
Hill — author (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2015-01-15 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
2015-01-16 From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 15.
2015-02-05 Referred to Com. on E.Q. referral-committee
2015-03-12 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.Q. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
2015-03-17 Set for hearing April 15.
2015-03-26 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.Q. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
2015-04-16 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 648.) (April 15). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
2015-04-20 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
2015-04-24 Set for hearing May 4.
2015-05-04 May 4 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
2015-05-23 Set for hearing May 28.
2015-05-28 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1147.) (May 28). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
2015-06-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
2015-06-03 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 24. Noes 15. Page 1289.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
2015-06-04 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2015-06-11 Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
2015-06-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2015-07-15 July 15 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
2015-08-27 August 27 hearing postponed by committee.
2016-08-12 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (August 11). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
2016-08-15 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
2016-08-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2016-08-23 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 55. Noes 18. Page 6098.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
2016-08-23 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2016-08-24 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 25. Noes 14. Page 5372.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
2016-08-30 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
2016-09-22 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2016-09-22 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 476, Statutes of 2016.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/018b3798-2f16-4b6f-b763-faa73ae81eb3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).