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Bill	California Environmental Quality Act: transportation: major transit stop.	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. CEQA exempts from its requirements residential projects on infill sites that meet certain requirements, including a requirement that the projects are located within 12 mile of a major transit stop. CEQA defines "major transit stop" to include, among other things, the intersection of 2 or more major bus routes with a frequency of service interval of 15 minutes or less during the morning and afternoon peak commute periods.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 1560	California AB 1560 (20192020)	bill	California Environmental Quality Act: transportation: major transit stop.	enacted	Friedman	9	30	7	2019-02-22	2019-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/16e5563f-5891-4862-af80-50bdb16874b1	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1560	75a8c265c69bfb75eea79547370775d876e8628491ea03174001795792344559	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1560 (20192020) — California Environmental Quality Act: transportation: major transit stop.

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. CEQA exempts from its requirements residential projects on infill sites that meet certain requirements, including a requirement that the projects are located within 12 mile of a major transit stop. CEQA defines "major transit stop" to include, among other things, the intersection of 2 or more major bus routes with a frequency of service interval of 15 minutes or less during the morning and afternoon peak commute periods.

Version chain

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

1. 02/22/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/11/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/05/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/25/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/08/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/26/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/08/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB1560 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/12/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB1560 Friedman et al. By McGuire — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Housing] — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1560 Friedman Consent Calendar Second Day — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1560 Friedman Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Friedman — primary (person)
• Gabriel — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-22 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2019-02-23 From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
• 2019-02-25 Read first time. reading-1
• 2019-03-14 Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2019-04-03 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2019-04-11 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
• 2019-04-22 Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2019-04-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-05-13 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 1609.)
• 2019-05-15 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 15). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-05-16 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1830.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-23 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-05-29 Referred to Coms. on EQ. and HOUSING. referral-committee
• 2019-06-05 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on EQ. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2019-06-24 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HOUSING. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 19). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-06-25 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-07-03 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-07-08 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2019-08-12 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2019-08-19 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2019-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-08-26 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-08-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-04 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2504.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-05 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 7 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2019-09-09 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3114.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-17 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 631, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/16e5563f-5891-4862-af80-50bdb16874b1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).