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Bill	California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: residential or mixed-use housing projects.	(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.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 1804	California AB 1804 (20172018)	bill	California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: residential or mixed-use housing projects.	enacted	Berman	6	25	3	2018-01-10	2018-09-22	openstates	ocd-bill/da5c8b14-89c7-42c9-9ae3-b43806ce4998	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1804	236a860edc86cb5e5514bf732ad7ca6b627c5811a76031c38e448eecea7a74c7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1804 (20172018) — California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: residential or mixed-use housing projects.

(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.

Version chain

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

1. 01/10/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 08/17/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/24/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/22/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB1804 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/04/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1804 BERMAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1804 Berman et al. By Skinner — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Berman — primary (person)
• Chiu — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-10 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-01-11 From printer. May be heard in committee February 10.
• 2018-01-22 Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2018-04-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-04-18 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2018-05-25 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 25). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-05-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-05-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 5389.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-05-30 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-06-07 Referred to Com. on EQ. referral-committee
• 2018-06-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-08-06 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2018-08-13 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2018-08-16 Joint Rule 62(a) suspended. (Page 5342.)
• 2018-08-17 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-08-17 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-24 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2018-08-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5954.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-29 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2018-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6989.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2018-09-22 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-22 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 670, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/da5c8b14-89c7-42c9-9ae3-b43806ce4998. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).