Affordable housing: California Environmental Quality Act: exemption.
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. CEQA authorizes the lead agency, if the lead agency determines that a project is exempt from CEQA, to file a notice of exemption with the Office of Planning and Research or the county clerk of each county in which the project is located.
California AB 1449 (20232024) — Affordable housing: California Environmental Quality Act: exemption.
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. CEQA authorizes the lead agency, if the lead agency determines that a project is exempt from CEQA, to file a notice of exemption with the Office of Planning and Research or the county clerk of each county in which the project is located.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
3rd Reading AB1449 Alvarez et al. By Wiener — 32–2 (pass) · upper
AB 1449 Alvarez Assembly Third Reading — 54–13 (pass) · lower
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 [Appropriations] — 7–1 (pass) · lower
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Housing] — 6–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Housing and Community Development] — 8–1 (pass) · lower
Do pass. — 12–3 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
Alvarez — primary (person)
Wicks — author (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2023-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2023-02-18 From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
2023-03-23 Referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and H. & C.D. referral-committee
2023-03-23 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
2023-03-27 Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
2023-04-11 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
2023-04-18 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (April 17). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
2023-04-19 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
2023-04-20 Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. referral-committee
2023-04-27 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (April 26). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
2023-05-01 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
2023-05-02 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
2023-05-10 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 3.) (May 10). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2023-05-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2023-05-18 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 54. Noes 13. Page 1592.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
2023-05-18 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2023-05-31 Referred to Coms. on E.Q. and HOUSING. referral-committee
2023-06-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HOUSING. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2023-07-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2023-08-14 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
2023-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2023-09-07 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 2. Page 2462.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
2023-09-07 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
2023-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
2023-10-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2023-10-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 761, Statutes of 2023. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/37271b7e-cb9d-4455-8a3c-70537448fff6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).