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Bill	California Environmental Quality Act: notices and documents: electronic filing and posting.	(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 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 819	California AB 819 (20212022)	bill	California Environmental Quality Act: notices and documents: electronic filing and posting.	enacted	Levine	7	23	6	2021-02-16	2021-07-16	openstates	ocd-bill/99fb9760-89e6-41fe-89ca-a4a21de39751	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB819	a5912e751e9fe6d8f1451f701cd4b982be278ee293af6cf7edd6fee4d09f38ba	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 819 (20212022) — California Environmental Quality Act: notices and documents: electronic filing and posting.

(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 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. 02/16/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/16/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/05/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/28/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/16/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB819 (committee substitute) — source
7. 06/29/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 819 Levine Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 819 Levine Consent Calendar Second Day — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar AB819 — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Levine — primary (person)
• Mathis — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2021-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2021-02-25 Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2021-03-16 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-03-17 Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2021-03-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (March 24). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-04-05 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-04-06 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2021-04-14 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 14). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-15 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-04-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1154.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-04-26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-05-12 Referred to Com. on E.Q. referral-committee
• 2021-05-28 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E.Q. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-06-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-06-21 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2021-06-22 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-06-24 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1634.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-06-24 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2021-06-28 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2131.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-07-05 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2021-07-16 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-07-16 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 97, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/99fb9760-89e6-41fe-89ca-a4a21de39751. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).