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Bill	California Environmental Quality Act: aesthetic impacts.	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.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2341	California AB 2341 (20172018)	bill	California Environmental Quality Act: aesthetic impacts.	enacted	Mathis	7	20	5	2018-02-13	2018-09-07	openstates	ocd-bill/ab625100-1041-4a27-8d61-865e8686b44e	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2341	27914d2a1ba857841e6f47a53bc133c149057f76b2cc9efadab8355f7aa9fbfa	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2341 (20172018) — California Environmental Quality Act: aesthetic impacts.

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. 02/13/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/16/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/23/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/14/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/07/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB2341 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/22/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2341 MATHIS Assembly Third Reading — 61–9 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2341 Mathis et al. By Wiener — 27–8 (pass) · upper
• AB 2341 MATHIS Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 65–8 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 7–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Mathis — primary (person)
• Baker — coauthor (person)
• Wiener — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-13 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-14 From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
• 2018-03-01 Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2018-04-12 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (April 9). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-04-16 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-04-17 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-04-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 61. Noes 9. Page 4824.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-04-23 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-05-03 Referred to Com. on EQ. referral-committee
• 2018-05-23 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on EQ. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-14 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on EQ. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-08-08 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2018-08-08 Ordered to second reading.
• 2018-08-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 8. Page 5289.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-14 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 16 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2018-08-20 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 65. Noes 8. Page 6371.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-08-24 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2018-09-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 298, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ab625100-1041-4a27-8d61-865e8686b44e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).