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Bill	California Environmental Quality Act: small disadvantaged community water system: state small water system: exemption.	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 or mitigated negative declaration, as specified, if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA includes exemptions from its environmental review requirements for numerous categories of projects, as prescribed.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	SB 974	California SB 974 (20192020)	bill	California Environmental Quality Act: small disadvantaged community water system: state small water system: exemption.	enacted	Hurtado	10	33	6	2020-02-11	2020-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/1c5f68b1-cd3f-4095-b908-5dfac49ba6d8	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB974	9d551195c48e5dc2e18363ffa4eaaeb2590efa00b7c2913a3645f650d054c933	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 974 (20192020) — California Environmental Quality Act: small disadvantaged community water system: state small water system: exemption.

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 or mitigated negative declaration, as specified, if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA includes exemptions from its environmental review requirements for numerous categories of projects, as prescribed.

Version chain

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

1. 02/11/20 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/24/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/02/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/18/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/13/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/20/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/25/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/28/20 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. SB974 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/03/20 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 974 Hurtado Senate Third Reading By Aguiar-Curry — 71–3 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB974 Hurtado et al. Concurrence — 34–3 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 33–6 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Hurtado — primary (person)
• Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
• Dodd — coauthor (person)
• Mathis — principal coauthor (person)
• Salas — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-02-11 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2020-02-12 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 13.
• 2020-02-20 Referred to Com. on EQ. referral-committee
• 2020-03-10 Set for hearing April 1.
• 2020-03-18 April 1 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2020-03-24 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on EQ. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-05-13 Set for hearing May 29.
• 2020-05-29 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 3621.) (May 29). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2020-06-02 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-06-04 Set for hearing June 9.
• 2020-06-08 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2020-06-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-06-18 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-06-18 Ordered to second reading.
• 2020-06-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-06-26 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 33. Noes 6. Page 3882.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-06-26 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2020-06-29 Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2020-07-27 July 29 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2020-08-12 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (August 6). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2020-08-13 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-08-19 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 18). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2020-08-20 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-24 (Corrected August 24).
• 2020-08-25 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-25 Ordered to third reading.
• 2020-08-30 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 71. Noes 3. Page 5289.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-30 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2020-08-31 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 34. Noes 3.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2020-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2020-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 234, Statutes of 2020.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1c5f68b1-cd3f-4095-b908-5dfac49ba6d8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).