republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/sb-348.md

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Bill	California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: railroad crossings.	(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 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 exempts from its requirements railroad grade separation projects that eliminate existing grade crossings or that reconstruct existing grade separations. CEQA authorizes a lead agency, if it determines that a project is exempt from the requirements of CEQA, to file a notice of exemption with specific public entities.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	SB 348	California SB 348 (20152016)	bill	California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: railroad crossings.	enacted	Galgiani	5	20	5	2015-02-24	2015-08-07	openstates	ocd-bill/d0ba177e-0f50-4c35-92d5-355819cfe2a7	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB348	19d36c5a10577d834145389bec29eafa00aad4e8e439e031b37efd44b55cb290	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 348 (20152016) — California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: railroad crossings.

(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 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 exempts from its requirements railroad grade separation projects that eliminate existing grade crossings or that reconstruct existing grade separations. CEQA authorizes a lead agency, if it determines that a project is exempt from the requirements of CEQA, to file a notice of exemption with specific public entities.

Version chain

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

1. 02/24/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/06/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/07/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. SB348 (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/27/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 348 Galgiani Senate Third Reading By EGGMAN — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Galgiani — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-24 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2015-02-25 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 27.
• 2015-03-05 Referred to Com. on E.Q. referral-committee
• 2015-03-17 Set for hearing April 15.
• 2015-04-06 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 and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 649.) (April 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-04-17 Set for hearing April 27.
• 2015-04-27 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2015-04-28 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-05-04 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 880.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-05-05 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2015-05-22 Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2015-06-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-07-08 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 8). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-07-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-07-16 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 2429.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-07-16 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2015-07-30 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 10 a.m.
• 2015-08-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-08-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 143, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d0ba177e-0f50-4c35-92d5-355819cfe2a7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).