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| Bill | California Environmental Quality Act: administrative and judicial procedures. | 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. | us/states/ca | California Legislature | 20212022 | AB 2965 | California AB 2965 (20212022) |
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California AB 2965 (20212022) — California Environmental Quality Act: administrative and judicial procedures.
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.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- 03/14/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
- 06/21/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
- AB2965 (committee substitute) — source
- 06/10/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source
Votes
- AB 2965 NAT. RES. Consent Calendar Second Day By RIVAS, L. — 68–0 (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 6–0 (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar AB2965 NAT. RES. — 38–0 (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Committee on Natural Resources — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2022-03-14 Read first time. To print.
reading-1 - 2022-03-15 From printer. May be heard in committee April 14.
- 2022-03-24 Referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
referral-committee - 2022-04-19 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 18).
committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable - 2022-04-20 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
reading-1, reading-2 - 2022-04-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 0. Page 4406.)
passage, reading-1, reading-3 - 2022-04-25 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
reading-1 - 2022-05-04 Referred to Com. on E.Q.
referral-committee - 2022-06-01 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 1).
committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable - 2022-06-02 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
reading-1, reading-2 - 2022-06-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4131.).
passage, reading-1, reading-3 - 2022-06-09 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.
committee-passage - 2022-06-16 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- 2022-06-21 Approved by the Governor.
executive-signature - 2022-06-21 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 38, Statutes of 2022.
became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8c9319ea-8d32-4337-bd0b-998289951b71. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).