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Bill	California Environmental Quality Act: streamlined judicial review: environmental leadership transit projects.	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. CEQA establishes a procedure by which a person may seek judicial review of the decision of the lead agency made pursuant to CEQA.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 44	California SB 44 (20212022)	bill	California Environmental Quality Act: streamlined judicial review: environmental leadership transit projects.	enacted	Allen	10	33	10	2020-12-07	2021-10-07	openstates	ocd-bill/07a802d6-8cb5-4ed5-9597-583c19c5822c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB44	177be9aaff8e27116c2c0f9babefdfd3714bc963ef54a4c16886668faccf801e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 44 (20212022) — California Environmental Quality Act: streamlined judicial review: environmental leadership transit projects.

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. CEQA establishes a procedure by which a person may seek judicial review of the decision of the lead agency made pursuant to CEQA.

Version chain

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

1. 12/07/20 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/01/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/05/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/27/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/28/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/14/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/30/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 10/07/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. SB44 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/07/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading SB44 Allen et al. — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 9–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB44 Allen et al. Concurrence — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 44 Allen Senate Third Reading By Carrillo — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Allen — primary (person)
• Caballero — coauthor (person)
• Carrillo — coauthor (person)
• Cortese — coauthor (person)
• Durazo — coauthor (person)
• Grayson — coauthor (person)
• Hertzberg — coauthor (person)
• Mullin — coauthor (person)
• Wiener — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-12-07 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2020-12-08 From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 7.
• 2021-01-28 Referred to Coms. on EQ. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-03-01 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.Q. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-03-03 Set for hearing March 15.
• 2021-03-16 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 500.) (March 15). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-03-25 Set for hearing April 13.
• 2021-04-05 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-04-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 775.) (April 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-04-21 Set for hearing May 3.
• 2021-04-27 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-05-04 May 3 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2021-05-14 Set for hearing May 20.
• 2021-05-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1180.) (May 20). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-26 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1254.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-05-26 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2021-06-03 Referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-06-24 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (June 23). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-28 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-07-13 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 13). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-07-14 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-08-19 August 19 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2021-08-26 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (August 26). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-08-30 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-31 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-01 Coauthors revised.
• 2021-09-02 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2691.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-02 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2021-09-03 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 2384.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1 p.m.
• 2021-10-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-10-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 633, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/07a802d6-8cb5-4ed5-9597-583c19c5822c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).