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Bill	California Environmental Quality Act.	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 2782	California AB 2782 (20172018)	bill	California Environmental Quality Act.	enacted	Friedman	6	21	5	2018-02-16	2018-08-24	openstates	ocd-bill/f7c76c5c-e410-477d-abc1-a289c45106fc	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2782	be9ae40c83c6f5fbf552179c245901f68b7104544491cde1f3f2849e06621442	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2782 (20172018) — California Environmental Quality Act.

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. 02/16/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/02/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/30/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/24/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB2782 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/10/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2782 Friedman By Wiener — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2782 FRIEDMAN Assembly Third Reading — 74–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Friedman — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2018-04-02 Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2018-04-02 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-04-03 Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2018-04-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 23). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-04-30 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-05-01 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2018-05-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-05-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-05-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 1. Page 5382.) 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 7. Noes 0.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-08-06 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2018-08-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 5237.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-09 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2018-08-14 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2018-08-24 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-08-24 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 193, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f7c76c5c-e410-477d-abc1-a289c45106fc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).