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Bill	California Environmental Quality Act: sports and entertainment project.	(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 (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 administrative procedures for the review and certification of the EIR for a project and judicial review procedures for any action or proceeding brought to challenge the lead agency's decision to certify the EIR or to grant project approvals.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 987	California AB 987 (20172018)	bill	California Environmental Quality Act: sports and entertainment project.	enacted	Kamlager-Dove	9	42	13	2017-02-16	2018-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/8643f694-b1d4-4a4d-b9ca-acbc1b678b8a	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB987	fdc11ff9729038915a2b17e5fb028ca6b2b21a18bc2bf9643c35f0a92a359f80	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 987 (20172018) — California Environmental Quality Act: sports and entertainment project.

(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 (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 administrative procedures for the review and certification of the EIR for a project and judicial review procedures for any action or proceeding brought to challenge the lead agency's decision to certify the EIR or to grant project approvals.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/07/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/03/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/21/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/27/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/08/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/30/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB987 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/05/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 987 Kamlager-Dove Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 68–4 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 987 GARCIA, C. Consent Calendar Second Day — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — 6–3 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB987 Kamlager-Dove et al. By Bradford — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 6–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• [08-16-2018] set for [First] hearing: Reconsideration of favorable vote granted — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Kamlager-Dove — primary (person)
• Bradford — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2017-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2017-03-02 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2017-03-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (March 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-04-26 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 26). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-04-27 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-04 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1392.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-04 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-05-18 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2017-06-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-06-26 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2017-06-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-07-13 Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Lara.
• 2017-09-07 From inactive file.
• 2017-09-07 Ordered to second reading.
• 2017-09-08 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-09-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-11 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(c). referral-committee
• 2018-06-07 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
• 2018-06-13 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
• 2018-08-16 In committee: Reconsideration of a favorable vote granted.
• 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
• 2018-08-27 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2018-08-27 Senate Rule 29.3(b) suspended. (Ayes 26. Noes 13. Page 5779.)
• 2018-08-27 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 34. Noes 0. Page 6084.). 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 3.) (August 31). committee-passage
• 2018-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 68. 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 961, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8643f694-b1d4-4a4d-b9ca-acbc1b678b8a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).