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Bill	California Environmental Quality Act: Oakland Sports and Mixed-Use Project.	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. CEQA establishes a procedure by which a person may seek judicial review of the decision of the lead agency made pursuant to CEQA. CEQA requires a court to make specified orders if it finds that any determination, finding, or decision of a public agency has been made without compliance with CEQA.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 734	California AB 734 (20172018)	bill	California Environmental Quality Act: Oakland Sports and Mixed-Use Project.	enacted	Bonta	9	36	4	2017-02-15	2018-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/f157880c-38d1-40f2-8c4f-caa70e8cd283	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB734	8cbf53a6191be30f599c16d8380aaab6e65531e45aa49dd01a0a115af187cca8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 734 (20172018) — California Environmental Quality Act: Oakland Sports and Mixed-Use Project.

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. CEQA establishes a procedure by which a person may seek judicial review of the decision of the lead agency made pursuant to CEQA. CEQA requires a court to make specified orders if it finds that any determination, finding, or decision of a public agency has been made without compliance with CEQA.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/23/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/04/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/03/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/21/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/28/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/30/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB734 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/05/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 734 Bonta Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 66–4 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bonta — primary (person)
• Quirk — coauthor (person)
• Skinner — coauthor (person)
• Stone — coauthor (person)
• Thurmond — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-15 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2017-02-16 From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
• 2017-03-23 Referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2017-03-23 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-03-27 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2017-05-04 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (May 3). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-05-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 63. Noes 9. Page 1479.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-11 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-05-24 Referred to Coms. on GOV. & F. and T. & H. referral-committee
• 2017-06-13 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2018-06-04 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-06 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2018-06-06 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2018-06-13 Re-referred to Coms. on EQ. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2018-06-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-07-02 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (June 26). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-07-03 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2018-08-06 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2018-08-13 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2018-08-20 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-08-21 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-08-28 Senate Rule 29.3(b) suspended. (Ayes 33. Noes 1. Page 5855.)
• 2018-08-28 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2018-08-28 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-08-29 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2018-08-29 Ordered to third reading.
• 2018-08-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 6159.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2018-08-31 Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2018-08-31 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended.
• 2018-08-31 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (August 31). committee-passage
• 2018-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 66. Noes 4.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2018-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 959, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f157880c-38d1-40f2-8c4f-caa70e8cd283. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).