Environmental quality: Jobs and Economic Improvement Through Environmental Leadership Act of 2021.
(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 (EIR) on a project that the lead agency 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.
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SB 7
California SB 7 (20212022)
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Environmental quality: Jobs and Economic Improvement Through Environmental Leadership Act of 2021.
California SB 7 (20212022) — Environmental quality: Jobs and Economic Improvement Through Environmental Leadership Act of 2021.
(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 (EIR) on a project that the lead agency 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.
SB 7 Atkins Third Reading Urgency By RIVAS, R. — 71–2 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
Atkins — primary (person)
Cortese — coauthor (person)
Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
Robert Rivas — coauthor (person)
Rubio — 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 Com. on EQ. referral-committee
2021-02-17 Set for hearing February 22.
2021-02-18 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
2021-02-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 306.) (February 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2021-02-23 Set for hearing February 25.
2021-02-25 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 333.) (February 25). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2021-02-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2021-03-01 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 343.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2021-03-01 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2021-04-08 Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
2021-04-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (April 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2021-05-05 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 5). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2021-05-06 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2021-05-10 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 71. Noes 2. Page 1365.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2021-05-11 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
2021-05-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
2021-05-20 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2021-05-20 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 19, Statutes of 2021. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ca7dbf59-d593-4d33-b2fa-b636b77ca75f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).