republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/sb-922.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "California Environmental Quality Act: exemptions: transportation-related projects."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "SB 922"
citation: "California SB 922 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["California Environmental Quality Act: exemptions: transportation-related projects."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wiener"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 30
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2022-02-03"
last_action: "2022-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/31cc7264-6bda-42b5-8ed9-944c8dfdbbd5"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB922"
source_hash: "7772e988199b67dddf40465694366de712553a89e421a909b778fba5756ed8f2"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California SB 922 (20212022) — California Environmental Quality Act: exemptions: transportation-related 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 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. **02/03/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB922&version=20210SB92299INT)
2. **03/16/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB922&version=20210SB92298AMD)
3. **04/04/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB922&version=20210SB92297AMD)
4. **05/11/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB922&version=20210SB92296AMD)
5. **08/04/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB922&version=20210SB92295AMD)
6. **09/30/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB922&version=20210SB92293CHP)
7. **SB922** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB922)
8. **08/17/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB922&version=20210SB92294ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 922 Wiener Senate Third Reading By Friedman — **71–2** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB922 Wiener et al. Concurrence — **30–3** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading SB922 Wiener et al. — **24–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **8–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Wiener — primary (person)
- Becker — coauthor (person)
- Boerner Horvath — coauthor (person)
- Chen — coauthor (person)
- Friedman — principal coauthor (person)
- Mathis — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-03** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-02-04** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 6.
- **2022-02-07** Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
- **2022-02-07** (Ayes 31. Noes 6.)
- **2022-02-07** Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 31. Noes 6. Page 2880.)
- **2022-02-16** Referred to Com. on E.Q. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-08** Set for hearing March 28.
- **2022-03-16** 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`
- **2022-03-31** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 3238.) (March 28). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-04** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-06** Set for hearing April 18.
- **2022-04-18** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2022-04-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-11** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-05-11** Ordered to second reading.
- **2022-05-12** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-16** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 24. Noes 1. Page 3703.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-05-16** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2022-05-27** Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-14** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (June 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-29** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 29). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-30** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-04** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-04** Ordered to third reading.
- **2022-08-08** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 71. Noes 2. Page 5778.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-08** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2022-08-15** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 30. Noes 3. Page 4829.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-08-23** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12:30 p.m.
- **2022-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 987, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/31cc7264-6bda-42b5-8ed9-944c8dfdbbd5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).