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Bill	California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: City of Los Angeles: supportive housing and emergency shelters.	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	20192020	AB 1197	California AB 1197 (20192020)	bill	California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: City of Los Angeles: supportive housing and emergency shelters.	enacted	Santiago	8	30	7	2019-02-21	2019-09-26	openstates	ocd-bill/a4e6d651-d228-4488-83c3-1aaeae6cc6db	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1197	7c066dd08315e748bf0a8841cae07e1b9df05ef2a3cc6f2abc8bc7b4142f5717	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1197 (20192020) — California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: City of Los Angeles: supportive housing and emergency shelters.

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. 02/21/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/21/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/29/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/27/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/06/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/26/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1197 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/16/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Housing and Community Development] — 8–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1197 Santiago Assembly Third Reading — 72–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1197 Santiago Concurrence - Urgency Added — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1197 Santiago et al. By Hertzberg Urgency Clause — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Santiago — primary (person)
• Hertzberg — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-21 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-02-22 From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
• 2019-03-21 Referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2019-03-21 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-03-25 Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2019-04-11 Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Page 1150.)
• 2019-04-11 (pending re-referral to Com. on H. & C.D.)
• 2019-04-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-25 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 24). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-29 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-04-30 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2019-05-13 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 1609.)
• 2019-05-15 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 15). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-05-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 2014.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-29 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-06-06 Referred to Com. on EQ. referral-committee
• 2019-06-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 19). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-06-27 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-12 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2019-08-13 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-06 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-10 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 2751.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-10 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 12 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2019-09-11 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 3370.)
• 2019-09-11 Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 3415.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-23 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-09-26 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-09-26 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 340, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a4e6d651-d228-4488-83c3-1aaeae6cc6db. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).