Environmental quality: Jobs and Economic Improvement Through Environmental Leadership Act of 2011.
(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.
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SB 734
California SB 734 (20152016)
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Environmental quality: Jobs and Economic Improvement Through Environmental Leadership Act of 2011.
California SB 734 (20152016) — Environmental quality: Jobs and Economic Improvement Through Environmental Leadership Act of 2011.
(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.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–3 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
Galgiani — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2015-02-27 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
2015-03-02 From printer. May be acted upon on or after April 1.
2015-03-02 Read first time. reading-1
2015-03-19 Referred to Com. on N.R. & W. referral-committee
2015-04-02 Set for hearing April 14.
2015-04-06 April 14 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
2015-04-09 Set for hearing April 28.
2015-04-15 April 28 hearing postponed by committee.
2015-04-22 Set for hearing April 28.
2015-04-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 821.) (April 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2015-05-05 Set for hearing May 11.
2015-05-11 May 11 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
2015-05-23 Set for hearing May 28.
2015-06-01 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1159.) (May 28). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
2015-06-02 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
2015-06-04 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1332.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
2015-06-04 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2015-06-18 Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
2015-07-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2015-08-19 August 19 hearing postponed by committee.
2015-08-26 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 26). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2015-08-27 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
2015-08-31 From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Holden.
2015-08-31 Ordered to third reading.
2015-09-11 Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Holden.
2016-05-05 Notice of intention to remove from inactive file given by Assembly Member Calderon.
2016-05-09 From inactive file.
2016-05-09 Ordered to third reading.
2016-05-12 Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. pursuant to Assembly Rule 97. referral-committee
2016-05-19 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
2016-06-16 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 3.) (June 13). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
2016-06-21 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
2016-06-21 (Corrected June 21).
2016-06-22 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 5.) (June 22). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2016-06-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2016-08-04 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 61. Noes 10. Page 5706.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
2016-08-04 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2016-08-08 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). referral-committee
2016-08-08 From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on E.Q. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 4819.) Re-referred to Com. on E.Q. referral-committee, committee-passage
2016-08-09 Set for hearing August 10.
2016-08-10 From committee: That the Assembly amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 4848.) committee-passage
2016-08-11 Urgency clause adopted.
2016-08-11 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 28. Noes 0. Page 4865.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
2016-08-16 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
2016-08-26 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2016-08-26 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 210, Statutes of 2016.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/456f0d15-1037-4ec0-b51e-5388f7ca6324. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).