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Bill	California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: City of Los Angeles: County of Los Angeles: affordable housing and transitional housing.	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.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 785	California AB 785 (20232024)	bill	California Environmental Quality Act City of Los Angeles County of Los Angeles affordable housing and transitional housing exemption	enacted	Santiago	10	31	8	2023-02-13	2023-10-10	openstates	ocd-bill/2a1c4d17-0e88-40b8-8126-55ee829414b3	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB785	c9e6eb3b08e4a0c3d9bb6a6afe3dad483fe95069ec69a22057ae04be88ddd6b9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 785 (20232024) — California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: City of Los Angeles: County of Los Angeles: affordable housing and transitional housing.

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. 02/13/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/23/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/11/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/20/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/01/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/12/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/08/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 10/10/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB785 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/18/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Housing and Community Development] — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Housing] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 785 Santiago Consent Calendar Second Day — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 785 Santiago Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 71–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB785 Santiago By Durazo — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Santiago — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-13 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2023-02-14 From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
• 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 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
• 2023-04-12 Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2023-04-19 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 17). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-04-20 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-04-24 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 8. Noes 0.) (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. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 10). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-11 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-18 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1595.) 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 7. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-07-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 10). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-07-12 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, 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
• 2023-09-08 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2718.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-13 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2023-09-13 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 3485.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2023-10-10 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-10 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 726, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2a1c4d17-0e88-40b8-8126-55ee829414b3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).