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Bill	Environmental quality: Jobs and Economic Improvement Through Environmental Leadership Act of 2011.	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 (EIR) 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 246	California AB 246 (20172018)	bill	Environmental quality: Jobs and Economic Improvement Through Environmental Leadership Act of 2011.	enacted	Santiago	9	34	9	2017-01-30	2017-10-06	openstates	ocd-bill/4ffca262-4056-4694-83aa-003eda2deeb9	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB246	3350cce966719b47fd8ef3cb4d374cfda0834708b2ddad4f715c46e482345a58	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 246 (20172018) — Environmental quality: Jobs and Economic Improvement Through Environmental Leadership Act of 2011.

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 (EIR) 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. 01/30/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/09/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/21/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/12/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/06/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/07/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/06/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB246 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/19/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 246 SANTIAGO Assembly Third Reading — 48–21 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 12–5 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB246 Santiago et al. By Galgiani — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 246 SANTIAGO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 70–6 (pass) · lower
• With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — 6–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Rules] — 5–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Santiago — primary (person)
• Galgiani — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-30 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2017-01-31 From printer. May be heard in committee March 2.
• 2017-02-06 Referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. referral-committee
• 2017-03-08 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (March 7). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-03-09 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-03-13 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2017-04-05 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2017-05-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 26). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-05-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 48. Noes 21. Page 1946.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-06-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-06-14 Referred to Com. on EQ. referral-committee
• 2017-06-21 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
• 2017-07-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (July 5). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-07-12 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2017-08-21 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2017-09-05 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on RLS. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (September 1). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-09-06 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2017-09-07 Re-referred to Com. on EQ. referral-committee
• 2017-09-07 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
• 2017-09-07 Joint Rules 61 and 62 suspended. (Ayes 27. Noes 12. Page 2582.)
• 2017-09-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (September 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-09-15 Pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8
• 2017-09-15 Ordered to third reading.
• 2017-09-15 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 3001.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-15 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2017-09-16 Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2017-09-16 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 3533.)
• 2017-09-16 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (September 16). committee-passage
• 2017-09-16 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 3535.)
• 2017-09-16 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 70. Noes 6. Page 3536.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-27 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2017-10-06 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-10-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 522, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4ffca262-4056-4694-83aa-003eda2deeb9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).