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type: "Bill"
title: "Environmental quality: Jobs and Economic Improvement Through Environmental Leadership Act of 2011."
description: "(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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "SB 734"
citation: "California SB 734 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Environmental quality: Jobs and Economic Improvement Through Environmental Leadership Act of 2011."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Galgiani"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 46
vote_count: 11
first_action: "2015-02-27"
last_action: "2016-08-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/456f0d15-1037-4ec0-b51e-5388f7ca6324"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB734"
source_hash: "f30e968da38a063d06c35c7b32f94acff134a0da55874853b5751aa8311552c5"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---
# 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.
1. **02/27/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB734&version=20150SB73499INT)
2. **05/19/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB734&version=20150SB73497AMD)
3. **06/02/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB734&version=20150SB73498AMD)
4. **06/21/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB734&version=20150SB73496AMD)
5. **08/26/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB734&version=20150SB73494CHP)
6. **SB734** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB734)
7. **08/12/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB734&version=20150SB73495ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 734 Galgiani Third Reading Urgency By GRAY — **61–10** (pass) · lower
- That the Assembly amendments be concurred in — **4–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **14–5** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading SB734 De León — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB734 Galgiani Urgency Clause Concurrence — **28–0** (pass) · upper
- 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/456f0d15-1037-4ec0-b51e-5388f7ca6324`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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