California Environmental Quality Act: aesthetic impacts.
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.
California AB 356 (20232024) — California Environmental Quality Act: aesthetic impacts.
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.
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2023-01-31 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2023-02-01 From printer. May be heard in committee March 3.
2023-02-09 Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
2023-03-07 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
2023-03-08 Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
2023-03-14 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
2023-04-17 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 10). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
2023-04-18 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
2023-04-19 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
2023-04-26 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 26). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2023-04-27 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
2023-05-04 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1461.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
2023-05-04 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2023-05-17 Referred to Com. on E.Q. referral-committee
2023-06-07 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2023-06-22 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
2023-07-03 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
2023-07-05 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
2023-07-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2036.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
2023-07-13 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
2023-07-25 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
2023-07-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2023-07-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 116, Statutes of 2023. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8cddc247-6212-43ee-8805-9f795ddd7b5c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).